tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56272792011-09-26T11:09:36.822-04:00Where Massachusetts Liberals procrastinate.emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.comBlogger23341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-61713923173540858402008-12-01T21:43:00.006-05:002008-12-01T22:39:13.410-05:00

Back by popular demand....DEMAND, I SAY! No fewer than three fans of TAI have accosted me of late, urging me to spend some quality weeknight time freshening the face of this poor neglected blog....wow, is there nothing duller than reading a blog post belaboring how long-overdue it is?Probably, and that would be my All-Twilight Edition of TicketStub! You thought you could escape this tweeny

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-89626693900188409782008-08-07T21:21:00.002-04:002008-08-07T21:52:30.690-04:00

It's always a good time for some Summertime Roadside Sightings!1. Trotting across Trapelo Road in the afternoon sunshine, stoping traffic, smooth as you please, looking for a delicious garbage can or stray kittycat -- one rather glossy, non-malnourished-looking coyote.2. Driving through Wellesley at 4pm on a weekday, I pass the corner of a well-manicured side street, at which are standing 3 or

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-90658269690044534562008-07-01T21:06:00.003-04:002008-07-01T21:13:06.639-04:00

Hello out there in blogland, I am in fact still alive -- just working a lot more, and blogging a lot less. My "new" (six months and counting...) job has a piping hot firewall, from behind which I can't see any blogs, video, or "sleepwear and lingerie" sites...not so fun when you're looking to send a pajamagram!My goal for the summer is to pick up TAI, dust it off, and get on a weekend posting

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-90616486164569894102008-02-18T21:32:00.002-05:002008-02-18T21:53:58.742-05:00

Time has been slipping slipping slipping, people...but the Index shall return! In the last few weeks, I've started an absolutely awesome new job, tweaked my back, reorganized every closet in the house, memorized a slew of new passwords, ate way too much Peterson's honey nut crunch, and so on and so forth. The awesome new job does not allow blogging, so my productivity is way up...just not

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-28634280141614658232008-01-21T22:21:00.000-05:002008-01-21T22:26:02.906-05:00

"David Dinkins and I are lucky that Rudy didn’t cast our portraits onto a bonfire along with the First Amendment, which he enjoyed violating daily." -- Here's the article I've been waiting for from the NYTimes, dredging up the hurlyburly of Rudy Giuliani's mayoralty, checkered as it was with political machinations, ruthlessness, and over $7 million paid out to settle civil rights lawsuits against

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-22638550563722557692008-01-18T09:13:00.000-05:002008-01-18T09:18:04.546-05:00

"Hi, nice to meet you...aaaaAAAGGGHHHH!" -- Behold, the easiest cheapest neat-o-est combination Halloween costume and job interview outfit evah! Tentacle Arms, people, and they're one size fits all. Time to get your Cthulu on...

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-81962317859341219072008-01-08T15:59:00.000-05:002008-01-08T16:03:19.015-05:00

"But what worries me is that he is seen as unifying by his race while she is seen as divisive by her sex." -- That might be a bit more simplistic than reality, but as usual Gloria Steinem is on to something. Her op-ed in today's NYTimes picks at the irritating double standard applied to our two "outsider" Democratic frontrunners...should be an interesting night here in the Greater New Hampshire

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-28450557130739472152008-01-07T11:46:00.000-05:002008-01-07T11:47:37.079-05:00

Now that we've turned the page over to 2008, I can complete my Holiday TicketStub Roundup -- stay tuned for my Top Five of '07, I'm still deciding.* Atonement: Ladies, the English Patient of the new millenium has arrived. With the same sepia-toned historical detail, Atonement also makes an impenetrable (for me) book into a sweeping movie tromancedy. Keira Knightley smolders and James McAvoy hunks

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-17133836191252899682008-01-04T22:29:00.001-05:002008-01-04T22:29:26.845-05:00

Behold, the Invisible Library is real. -- Well, one volume, anyway...bravo, J.K. Rowling! She hand-wrote and illustrated seven copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, the Aesop's Fables of the wizarding world that figure so prominently in HP7. Encased in leather, silver, and moonstones, one copy was auctioned off at Sotheby's to raise money for The Children's Voice campaign. And who coughed up

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-68900359231901886442008-01-04T22:11:00.000-05:002008-01-04T22:52:16.097-05:00

This freshly hatched new year has already yielded a bumper crop of Roadside Sightings -- enjoy the randomness:* On a refrigerator repair truck, a bumper sticker reading "I (HEART) Ammonia."* On an undistinguished white sedan, with Colorado plates, an "I (HEART) Portland" sticker.* On a prissy green Subaru wagon, a "KILL YOUR TV!" sticker. Give me a break.* We saw two separate cars on our drive

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-30779566582664630022007-12-12T14:15:00.000-05:002007-12-12T14:22:02.501-05:00

OfficeLOL, vote early and often! -- What with the Hollywood writer's strike and my own ongoing subemployed state, you'd think I'd have more time for blogging, not less. Well, what little time I do have has lately been spent over at Office Tally, where fellow bereft fans of the greatest of all comedy shows are turning their talents into hilarity. Not sure why mine didn't make the final cut...

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-83624039847831428362007-12-12T14:12:00.000-05:002007-12-12T14:13:28.402-05:00

w00t! -- That's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year, people. Plus, they seem to think it's an acronym...? It's just a plain old onomatopoeic ejaculation, if you ask me.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-47359271879211690112007-12-12T14:03:00.000-05:002007-12-12T14:09:46.725-05:00

Sometimes a tampon is not just a tampon -- and sometimes a TV commercial is worth rewinding the TiVo for! This morning I caught a blip of an ad for Tampax's Protecting Futures campaign. They are working with the UN Association's HERO program to help provide menstrual supplies, clean water, and puberty education to girls in Southern Africa. Apparently, many girls miss days of school during

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-84177925722298427402007-12-03T15:24:00.000-05:002007-12-03T17:19:45.025-05:00

The holidays mean more moviegoing at our house -- here's my Good, Better, Best Edition of TicketStub:* Dan In Real Life -- Sometimes you've got tinder and sparks but the flame just doesn't catch. That's the problem, literally and figuratively, with this movie. Written and directed by Peter Hedges, he of the superb indie family dramas What's Eating Gilbert Grape? and Pieces of April, this one

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-82638777409691137862007-12-03T13:59:00.001-05:002007-12-03T13:59:13.096-05:00

"Many of our nation's idiosyncrasies—both good and bad—can be observed the moment you step inside its hallowed halls: our preoccupation with jaw-gaping enormity, our irrepressible capitalist spirit, our cultural diversity, our insistence on wearing jorts even in mid-November." -- And they sell plenty of jorts at the Mall of America, for your convenience! I've been there and ridden the

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-62372438193507291592007-11-28T13:01:00.000-05:002007-12-03T14:02:57.928-05:00

"But this is PLANET EARTH where no such thing as IDEAL actually exists, and these particular self-checkout machines are so fundamentally broken that it takes the average person no less than 15 minutes to pay for an apple." -- The inimitable Dooce tells the local self-checkout lane to piss off, and nearly 5oo commenters to date agree! This one's for you, honey...

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-14006295685425015052007-11-16T13:36:00.000-05:002007-11-16T13:43:52.694-05:00

A couple random, back to back Roadside Sightings today:1. A bright red panel truck zipping along Rt.3A with a large anthropomorphized lightbulb character on the side, wearing a cap and holding a stopwatch in one hand and a lightning bolt (!) in the other. His name? Mr. Sparky. His business? Being "America's On-Time Electrician." Around here, he is also the Vulcan best friend of a certain

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-37359030932528339152007-11-16T13:31:00.000-05:002007-11-16T13:33:21.041-05:00

"If the writers want diamond-crusted laptops, give it to them!" -- Proof that the creative impulse shall survive the WGA strike...of course, it would be nice for these two entrepreneurial scribes to have decent profit-sharing when they inevitably get a network deal...

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-57094005893114932912007-11-10T15:25:00.001-05:002007-12-03T15:21:07.537-05:00

This year my moviegoing has slowed down considerably, yet my movie reviewing is even slower! Nevertheless, it's time for the Auteur, Auteur Edition of TicketStub:* The Darjeeling Limited -- Toot toot, all aboard the Tweeville Express! Yes, I am a total sucker for Wes Anderson, and no, I don't care if you think he's boring, pretentious, repetitive, racist, whatever. Despite my bias, I think this

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-69201769410761684772007-11-10T15:23:00.000-05:002007-11-10T15:25:33.278-05:00

"Will Write For Food...Won't Write For Free!" -- No wonder they get paid to write dialogue for "The Unit"! Check out some of the clever signage at Day 5 of the WGA strike in Hollywood.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-68759546017621092682007-11-07T21:10:00.000-05:002007-11-07T21:15:29.445-05:00

"We’re talking about story-telling, the most basic human need. Food? That’s an animal need. Shelter? That’s a luxury item that leads to social grouping, which leads directly to fancy scarves." -- Joss Whedon is on strike and on a tear! On his personal blog, he waxes on about the WGA strike and why writing is hard and important, not just funtime for fops. Some of my favorite "content creators" (

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-77820947015714798942007-11-07T16:36:00.000-05:002007-11-07T16:50:33.682-05:00

"I saw the girl of my dreams on the subway tonight..." -- Ahh, internet + doofus = love....? Maybe. He's like the Emo Mahir. And she (yes, he found her) is like a real-life "Leggy Blonde"! Thank god for hipster jackasses...

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-40901001827732122692007-11-07T16:27:00.000-05:002007-11-07T16:36:06.666-05:00

"She got too close for comfort, on the verge of working Triple-A baseball, which was too close to the big leagues for baseball brass to handle." -- Not talking about Annie Savoy here, folks, but an actual real-live female umpire, who was released from baseball this week after nine years in the minor leagues. Will a lady ump ever break through the grass ceiling? Hmmm.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-66238948693884550122007-10-22T16:46:00.000-04:002007-11-07T16:26:54.969-05:00

Stay classy, Boston! -- I think Jonathan Papelbon speaks for us all when he dances around with a cigar and scuba goggles whilst pouring the finest Bud Lite over the American League Championship Series trophy. All that's missing is his victory jig...aha! Baseball is unique in many ways. It's the only professional sport which requires you to wear a leather belt, openly allows you to use addictive

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-66567860113763226762007-10-04T21:07:00.000-04:002007-10-05T10:10:01.231-04:00

It Ain't No Library Thing -- So in the realm of nerdliness, I can doubtless hold my own. But as we are in the media-declared Season of the Nerd, I thought I'd take things up a notch. Enter my BIL, Jon, who annotated the LibraryThing Top 106 Books People Own But Have Not Read list on his LJ. I hear the Nerd Klaxon in the air, I must obey! :D The italics mean it's still sitting on my shelf, the

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-75657259778562849452007-09-30T21:14:00.000-04:002007-09-30T22:24:41.828-04:00

Tastes great, Jonathan Papelbon! -- Yes, that is the Red Sox fireball closer, cavorting on the Fenway infield, with an empty Bud Light box on his head. I think he made the eye-holes himself. Folks, this sums up my whole weekend: crazy fun times capped off with the Red Sox clinching the ALDS. WOOOO!

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-10274553139817001512007-09-17T10:03:00.001-04:002007-10-05T10:26:33.934-04:00

As the movie season turns from summer fun to fall serious, it's time for a Ladies and Gentlemen Ticket Stub:* Becoming Jane -- What would Jane Austen make of the cottage industry devoted to her in today's Hollywood? Now that's a screenplay I'd like to read...and this little biopic makes a pleasant diversion in the meantime. Based on her life and embellished with entertaining but unlikely details,

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-49008591449735212092007-09-11T12:43:00.000-04:002007-09-11T12:44:44.881-04:00

God help me, I shall blog again! -- I've got a nasty bronchitis, folks, what can I say? I do have a good Ticket Stub brewing, though, stay tuned. So much less time for blogging now that I don't have a job...weird.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-36953893353416416522007-08-29T13:53:00.000-04:002007-08-29T14:21:00.170-04:00

The Buddha of Savings -- Just a note to the good design people at Target, who decided to offer this ceramic Buddha head in their "Global Home" collection, in the "Sculptures + Figurines" department, originally priced at $24.99 and marked down to a mere $6.24, and available with 4 identical Buddha heads on an endcap in the Reading store: when can we look forward to the bargain ceramic moai, pietas

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-87211493837728736862007-08-27T10:52:00.000-04:002007-08-27T11:02:48.029-04:00

Gonzales Resigns! -- The good/bad news just keeps on coming, folks! Yes, we can savor the departure of TortureBoy for a while, and look forward to the White House flailing around for a replacement of equal repellence and spinelessness. But the downside is, these jokers still have 15+ months in office, and I doubt Congress can get it together to open the right size can of Indictment WhoopAss in

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-22062111472788151472007-08-26T16:55:00.000-04:002007-08-26T17:21:46.508-04:00

"We are effectively hamstrung because realities on the ground require measures we will always refuse—namely, the widespread use of lethal and brutal force." -- It's the silly season, so you may not have noticed this incendiary NYT op-ed piece, "The War As We Saw It." Written by 7 active-duty junior officers, it points out the complexity and probable futility of the Iraq war, calling out the

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-10734714700895633302007-08-14T10:27:00.000-04:002007-08-14T10:30:36.425-04:00

"There’s a 20 percent chance we’re living in a computer simulation." -- Meaning, you and me, like in The Matrix, except for realsies. Prepare for your "whoa" moment reading this NYT article on Oxford "transhumanist" Nick Bostrom.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-72201141138443534042007-08-08T18:43:00.000-04:002007-08-08T18:46:56.709-04:00

"One of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping me get elected because they think I'd be a great president." -- Instead of serving in the military, which is such a drag. Please don't do us any more favors, Romney boys! This takes the cake for boneheaded candidate quote du jour...check out Salon's comments thereon, the first one might be the best.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-61135260955665303732007-08-01T13:52:00.002-04:002007-08-01T14:11:34.145-04:00

Smile, baby! -- Celebrating new life is the best reason in the world for a lengthy blog absence, right? Well, regardless, that's my excuse -- my new niece was born, huzzah! On Saturday night, while I was sleeping in a tent on an island in the middle of Boston Harbor, which is why I'm not in this picture (sigh...) with my brother, Papa Josh, and Auntie Becca and Auntie Sara, and most especially

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-47107421519606640632007-08-01T13:52:00.001-04:002007-08-13T12:47:51.105-04:00

July carried me along in a whirl of travel, visits, getaways, and many many forms of media -- what better way to commemorate all this sabbatical fun that with a trip to ReviewZapalooza?* Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - As an aperitif before the release of Book 7, this hit the spot. I am a fan of this book, although many think it's dull or (in the case of the author herself!) poorly

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-38139437174412378502007-07-18T15:53:00.000-04:002007-07-18T15:54:09.987-04:00

Things have been slow around TAI, I know -- but I'm just back from a week in NJ and I have a slew of reviews and other goodies to post, stay tuned...

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-80581211450465849822007-07-18T15:49:00.001-04:002007-07-18T15:53:11.781-04:00

"Maraschino cherries? Why bother?" -- Why indeed! They NYT dining section tackles my favorite guilty, corrupted-fruit treat, including a recipe for making them at home! Minus the toxic dye and corn syrup, no less. Mmmmmm, maraschino...

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-69787532245321168122007-07-09T14:10:00.000-04:002007-07-09T14:18:13.724-04:00

"This is neither normal government conduct nor 'politics as usual,' but a national disgrace of a magnitude unseen since the days of Watergate - which, in fact, I believe it eclipses." -- John Koppel, a Justice Dept. lawyer for nearly 30 years, writes this OpEd in the Denver Post today, entitled "Bush Justice Is A National Disgrace." It's hard to disagree. It's also getting hard to disagree with

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-57097459135290625302007-07-06T14:35:00.000-04:002007-07-09T10:40:02.536-04:00

Now that my "Sabbatical" Summer has begun, I have time to catch up on my Big Summer Movie TicketStubs. This pair has the distinction of being refreshingly atypical, a cut or two above the usual summer fare, and surprisingly deserving of their critical acclaim, but for very different reasons. Read on, dear friends --* Knocked Up -- Neither knocked nor up: discuss. That is to say, this movie is an

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-42787229744619392032007-06-29T19:03:00.000-04:002007-07-06T22:16:19.224-04:00

And speaking of time flying... --Today was my last day at work! For eight weeks! Maybe more, maybe less, but no more work! Five years was long enough, time for new adventures . . .

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-47697607144495902832007-06-21T14:48:00.001-04:002007-06-21T14:50:02.575-04:00

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like bananas. -- For some reason, I really like the idea of this flat grandfather clock. It's like applied Warhol home design.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-34670561790800435592007-06-21T14:32:00.001-04:002007-06-21T14:45:16.409-04:00

You know that line in Ferris Bueller's Day Off when Mr. Bueller is trying to convince a client at his business lunch to boost his ad budget: "Dave, if you wanna sell, you have to spend"? I can understand that, to a point. And I can understand that when companies grow, they incur expenses to create that growth. OK, sure. But my company just got a bill from our law firm for $1.5 million dollars in

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-88105699338743804342007-06-19T14:29:00.001-04:002007-06-19T14:32:02.519-04:00

"Truly, we lived in an age of giants. With giant hair. And really tight pants. Who wanted you to catch their disease." -- The inimitable Fussy continues her archaeological survey of 70's detritus from her childhood home in Denver, posted online in glorious living-time-capsule color. Today's installment -- movie listings from January 6, 1978!

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-53847296845188744352007-06-18T10:56:00.000-04:002007-06-19T14:34:19.859-04:00

I've got the Hoboken Wishbone Blues -- or more precisely, the Do We Jettison The Aging Jetta Angst, since Nat's trusty red '99 konked out in our driveway yesterday, after a delightful weekend toting us and our bikes and camping gear all over Cape Cod. Sigh...why don't they make a "Big Expenditure Magic 8-Ball" to help with decisions like this? "It Is Decidedly The Right Time to Trade It In" would

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-33814808628340708852007-06-14T13:07:00.000-04:002007-06-14T13:12:18.611-04:00

"The country is ready to pick someone who can run on the following platform: get out of Iraq (not leave 50,000 troops for 50 years), open the vertically integrated carbon-based energy industry to green entrepreneurship, reform the tax system by moving to tax consumption and not income, balance the budget, turn illegals into citizens and also close the border, give everyone high quality health

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-43065592005283143422007-06-12T14:54:00.000-04:002007-06-12T14:58:30.179-04:00

LOLCats + 19th century photography + Sushiesque = teh awesom.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-3708041021680170982007-06-12T14:26:00.000-04:002007-06-12T14:47:54.547-04:00

"The babies will be named Bailey Elizabeth, Savannah Jane, Molli Grace, Cole Robert, Blake Nickolas and Grant Williams, but Masche and his wife, Jenny, had yet to decide who gets which." -- Two sets of sextuplets were born over the weekend, in Arizona and Minnesota. Both sets of parents used follicle-stimulating drugs to enhance fertility, and when a higher order multiple pregnancy resulted they

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-51005115810293977952007-06-12T10:42:00.000-04:002007-06-12T10:51:38.294-04:00

"One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior." -- Yes, it's true. An Air Force lab in Ohio considered building a big gay bomb. As in, let's spray the enemy with pheromones until they just drop their RPG's and go at it. Wow. Next up, a cootie-injecting bayonet, and a wet willie brigade! My question

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-48541143135450019242007-06-11T12:03:00.000-04:002007-06-11T12:16:04.595-04:00

Let a knitting project be your umbrella -- Yes, of course, just when I think I could maybe try something more complicated than a scarf, I find something on Knitty.com like this hand-knitted parasol. Dear god.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-33573749420873972452007-06-08T11:08:00.000-04:002007-06-08T12:51:46.562-04:00

As summer blooms and vacation looms -- not to mention my forthcoming "sabbatical" from the workplace -- I've slacked way off on my reviews. This year Nat and I are trying to choose our theatrical expenditures more wisely, which means no more automatic matinees every weekend. What with ticket prices so high and quality so, let's just say, unreliable, it's working out pretty well. I'll most

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-18477980443373722532007-06-07T13:07:00.000-04:002007-06-07T13:08:57.237-04:00

"The teleporters used in Star Trek are said to have been based on the idea of quantum entanglement and the latest study demonstrates that elements of the phenomenon could have a practical use in the real world." -- Take a second to read that again: teleportation, in the real world. So far its just data they're teleporting, but can true apparation be far behind?

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-57714059068945618282007-06-07T13:01:00.000-04:002007-06-07T13:03:57.251-04:00

"Like going to the moon with the most beautiful person on Earth, having sex all the way, while listening to your favorite band play live as little puppies lick your toes." -- Mmmmm, pavlova! My favorite lawyer-foodblogger The Amateur Gourmet waxes poetic about a dessert I've attempted twice now with semi-disastrous results...yet I'm inspired to try again. Puppies!

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-73117634069227395472007-06-04T15:36:00.000-04:002007-06-04T15:40:32.849-04:00

“I’ve had children come into my classroom, and they’ve never even lost at Candy Land.” -- So says one kindergarten teacher of her rapidly "graying" class -- that is, where kids are "redshirted" (or as we used to say, kept back) by their parents for another K year so they are older, taller, and more ready (for standardized testing, of course). Blech. My recent experience grading some similarly

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-89391449270855627892007-06-01T10:17:00.000-04:002007-06-01T10:25:18.707-04:00

"Ron + Hermione: Isn't It Obvious?" -- That was emblazoned on a t-shirt at the Phoenix Rising Harry Potter Convention in New Orleans last week, and Salon's Rebecca Traister gives an insider's view of the serious fans at play. As the Summer of Harry kicks off today (only fortyish days left!) I think we could all use a good relaxing charm...accio sangria!

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-59230317789418021532007-06-01T09:45:00.000-04:002007-06-01T09:49:23.546-04:00

"The capital of Red Sox Nation, where schadenfreude is flowing like World Series champagne." -- That's Boston this weekend, gang, as the limping Yankees come to Fenway for a series that may not include the usual bench-clearing brawl, but guarantees creative heckling. Play ball!

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-75902176473722003302007-05-24T09:19:00.000-04:002007-05-24T09:25:19.282-04:00

"Jason Varitek said he has never worn five-toed socks and sees no reason to try them now." -- Fair enough, Quadzilla! Behold the Five-Toed Red Sox of 2007.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-56669226851812512662007-05-22T11:51:00.000-04:002007-05-22T11:59:09.687-04:00

"I celebrate the man's entire catalog." -- I think $35 is a bit steep, but who doesn't want a little recognition at work? Note that this is currently out of stock at ThinkGeek...hmmmmm.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-47112806657372723422007-05-22T11:43:00.000-04:002007-05-22T11:44:04.561-04:00

Bollywood "Thriller" Video. -- What more needs to be said?

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-27689224000466954772007-05-22T11:37:00.000-04:002007-05-22T11:38:07.766-04:00

"Thanks for the superfluous visual aid, random cowboy dipshit!" -- Watch out for corporate website stock photography, you might learn something.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-23431315752078730752007-05-22T11:27:00.000-04:002007-05-22T11:28:45.741-04:00

Defenestrate it? Dip it in a koi pond? Smash it with a hammer? -- What's the best way to totally destroy data on a hard drive? Watch and see. Thank goodness for the BBC.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-77040103088172843932007-05-22T11:05:00.000-04:002007-05-22T11:18:50.138-04:00

"America finds itself married to a guy who has turned out to be a complete dud." -- That's President Dud to you, bub. Gary Kamiya muses on why Americans can't seem to divorce W. even though he's a disaster. His theory? The Dem-controlled Congress won't move to impeach because the quickly sinking Bush-Titanic is taking the whole GOP down with it, so why throw him an anchor? Um...lots of reasons?

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-4049960313867483122007-05-17T11:23:00.000-04:002007-05-17T11:25:08.417-04:00

Is 2007 the new 1974? -- What in the hell does that mean, anyway? Boston.com threw me for a real loop with this fluff piece, pointing out that it's been a third of a century since 1974. Um, I was born in 1974, so like, that can't be right.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-91564447928253132612007-05-16T10:52:00.000-04:002007-05-16T11:00:42.436-04:00

"Too much boob exposed? WTF! I see more boob that that on the red carpet." -- Right on! Check out the commotion at Celebrity Baby Blog -- they posted a paparazzi pic of Maggie Gyllenhaal breastfeeding her daugher on a park bench, while she was out for a stroll and dinner with friends and their baby. Let the naysayers and breast-barers have at it! I think it's way cool -- I would much rather

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-66699904974590666582007-05-15T16:51:00.000-04:002007-05-15T16:53:28.226-04:00

Sweet Fancy Moses! -- My prayers have been answered, people. Not only did I find a fried avocado recipe, I already have all the ingredients at home right now. Mmmmm, friedocado. It has definitely been a friedocado week around here...

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-49473511405616356402007-05-11T09:49:00.000-04:002007-05-11T09:55:30.157-04:00

"Women are invisible in this decision as they are invisible in the writings of recent -- and not so recent -- popes." -- Former president of Catholics for a Free Choice Frances Kissling excoriates the all-Catholic Supreme Court majority that decided the recent Gonzales v. Carhart (aka "partial birth" abortion) case. This is the first time in history there are 5 Catholics on the court, and

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-48947072090689062462007-05-10T14:27:00.000-04:002007-05-10T14:35:30.632-04:00

"If I were a slug, I'd just chuck meself into the salt pot." -- Want to experience the wonder that is Karl Pilkington? Behold Pilkipedia!

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-19770747699900889472007-05-09T16:01:00.000-04:002007-05-09T16:09:14.323-04:00

What's red and green and rides through the South? -- The Lone Kool-Aid Pickle! If it's in the NYT Dining Section, it must be a trend, so hop to it, pickle/candy lovers. Here's Miss Issippi's recipe: "Dump out half of the brine in the pickle jar and refill it with your favorite flavor of Kool-Aid (preferably Jamaica, because it makes them nice and red). Wait a few days. Enjoy. I did." I am

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-66898277807100937302007-05-09T14:13:00.000-04:002007-05-09T15:57:45.943-04:00

As the summer blockbuster season revs up, it's time for a Big Movie/Little Movie Ticket Stub:* Year of the Dog -- A perfect small movie: well-drawn characters, straightforward premise, and a thoughtful afterglow. Writer-director Mike White is, as far as I'm concerned, the man to save American independent cinema from its post-Grindhouse hangover, the culmination of a decade of indulgence and

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-66694214019413080362007-05-01T14:52:00.000-04:002007-05-01T15:00:36.743-04:00

"He swore off beer, had to put the pricey organic bananas back on the supermarket shelf and squeezed four meals out of a single chicken, all in the name of reducing hunger. And this is not even an election year." -- The governor of Oregon spent a week on a "food stamp diet," spending only $21 per person on all meals, which is the average for OR stamp recipients. Unsurprisingly, it was a bit

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-75075453101508290362007-04-30T14:11:00.000-04:002007-04-30T14:17:38.436-04:00

One Word Ticket Stub -- On Friday night, I accompanied Nat to his second viewing (in the same theater, after eating dinner at the same restaurant while the Red Sox were again playing the Yankees) of the ludicrously awesome Brit-cop comedy HOT FUZZ. Making up for our foolish failure to see Shaun of the Dead on the big screen, we were pleasantly doubled over at the nonstop onslaught of quippery,

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-21209360644063719142007-04-23T14:59:00.000-04:002007-04-23T15:01:58.474-04:00

"If the facts weren’t so horrible, there might be something touching in the Governor’s deeply American belief that “healing” can take place magically, without the intervening practice called “treating.”" -- Following my policy of only posting once about enormous and/or tragic news events, here's Adam Gopnik's bitter commentary from The New Yorker, addressing the outrageously persistent American

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-83587068614820568302007-04-17T11:17:00.000-04:002007-04-17T11:22:23.640-04:00

The cleverness and geekery, it burns! -- Only three months to go until Pottermania kicks off this July, so until then feast your eyes on this customized HP-themed chess set. Yes, that's Snape as the Black Knight. LEGO wizard Miss Mary Potter has more fun at her Flickr page. Accio awesomeness!

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-44806980500373500182007-04-17T11:08:00.000-04:002007-04-17T11:12:01.864-04:00

Cheesus Saves! -- Nice, dry, snappy NYT piece on the latest internet fadsite, Cheddarvision: "Seeing the film is a poignant reminder of the ravages of time, similar in effect to watching, say, all the movies of Robert Redford or Nick Nolte in quick chronological succession." Ouch.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-43956445912546266952007-04-16T11:00:00.000-04:002007-04-16T12:34:19.579-04:00

It's a rainy Patriot's Day here -- the reenacted battle o' Lexington & Concord has been cancelled, yet the marathoners run on. While the schoolchildren and office workers and academics of Boston lounge around at home in their pajamas....grrrrr.....I sit in my cube and contemplate...a nice long meme:1.What are your initials? I was EKD, now I go with just EW.2. What is your favorite thing to wear?

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-48180926197025006472007-04-16T10:54:00.000-04:002007-04-16T10:55:33.433-04:00

"The fire would have been just under your buttocks." -- That's not what you want to hear from your toilet manufacturer's customer service rep.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-32465462112312751322007-04-16T10:50:00.000-04:002007-04-16T10:53:06.935-04:00

Maryland rejects the Electoral College -- and Mass. might be next. State legislatures are taking up bills to end-run around the E.C. by giving the states electoral votes automatically to the winner of the national popular vote. Innnnteresting....

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-65119154120552194552007-04-09T16:47:00.000-04:002007-04-16T10:49:33.008-04:00

"Conservative credentials rose, while prior experience in civil rights law and the average ranking of the law school attended by the applicant dropped." -- Just substitute "government" for "civil rights law" and cross out the word "law" from "law school," and you've described President "C Average" and his whole cadre of monumentally mediocre flunkies. This Globe article on the politicization of

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-47170007638565149462007-04-06T13:41:00.000-04:002007-04-06T13:44:17.183-04:00

"And to them I say, nobody can eat fifty Creme Eggs." -- Ugh, one is enough for me, and frozen, please. Check out this cautionary tale from Salon, and have an eggy Easter weekend...

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-35897387102887264472007-04-03T11:23:00.000-04:002007-04-03T11:25:39.854-04:00

It's a lovely April day, raw, grey, 40 degrees, with sleet in the forecast -- so while you're hunched over your mug of tea, check out the underwater photgraphy of David Doubilet. Feeling the sand on your toes yet?

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-84249266117751798812007-04-03T11:02:00.000-04:002007-04-03T11:16:02.459-04:00

For a chiffon-wisp of a movie, we have a whisper of a TicketStub:* Blades of Glory -- Rounding out Will Ferrell's Anchorman/Talladega "trilogy of humbled arrogance" is this gentler, sillier comedy on ice. Without the raunch factor of the first two, this movie made us feel a little old for it, which was enhanced by the 95% teenage audience. But come on, two dudes in sequined Lycra? Comedy gold!

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-38525682517556001102007-04-03T10:53:00.000-04:002007-04-03T10:57:24.220-04:00

"And it's why they can't stand McCain even though his views are actually more doctrinally 'conservative' than Giuliani's -- because McCain doesn't seem to hate liberals viscerally enough and seems to believe in some (very minimal) limits and restraints on what the Leader can do." -- Read Glenn Greenwald's essay on Rudy Giuliani's recent musings on Presidential authority, and then ask me why I'd

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-48377255110216236522007-03-30T14:00:00.000-04:002007-03-30T14:07:29.348-04:00

And they say American music is dead? -- I just received a frightening email from TicketMaster. It suggests I "won't want to miss these event(s) that matched [my] interests," and proceeds to list a Frankensteinian hodgepodge including: Earth Wind & Fire, Morrissey, Boz Scaggs, Pat Benatar, the professional soccer quarterfinals featuring Trinidad & Tobago playing Guatemala, something called the "

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-44229642400972935642007-03-29T09:54:00.000-04:002007-03-29T09:57:06.852-04:00

The apocalypse is upon us. -- Yes, that is Karl Rove, busting a move at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. Watch his whole mind-boggling "rap" performance here...if you dare.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-43974892803575536412007-03-29T09:29:00.000-04:002007-03-29T09:48:17.180-04:00

"If he's truly having fun, he's either the most thick-skinned 17-year-old in America or the one with the largest sense of self-delusion." -- Let's plumb the mystery of Sanjaya, shall we? The kid is turning into the Teflon Don of American Idol, voted back on (and above the bottom 3) every week despite his complete lack of chops, stage presence, or moves. Who are these teenyboppers swooning over

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-35100094074904678212007-03-23T14:56:00.000-04:002007-03-23T14:59:57.866-04:00

"Do not keep asking me, 'Is it decaf? Did you get that? I ordered decaf. Are you sure it’s decaf?' F+CK YOU. Yes, I got it." -- A grande, hot & foamy cup of delicious vitriol from a Starbucks barista, aimed at all the "silly, sad caffeine addicts who line up like lemmings for overpriced lattes every morning." Ouch!

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-20280007395296030802007-03-23T14:12:00.000-04:002007-03-23T14:14:08.786-04:00

"This is what a trans-fat looks like." -- Ah, the life of an Unpaid Intern. Up in Seattle, slaving over an alternative weekly paper, spending your days creating deep-fried, bacon-wrapped, cheese-stuffed hot dogs. And blogging it, of course.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-42356287888233932232007-03-13T08:56:00.000-04:002007-03-13T09:09:37.163-04:00

Where's the outrage, Boston? -- These buttons shouldn't exist. They're souvenirs of the 70+ murder victims in the city last year, created by Clementina Chery at the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute. Louis was one of those victims too, and Clementina is his mother. Can you believe how much of her time, at this PEACE INSTITUTE she founded, is spent consoling the families of MORE MURDER VICTIMS?

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-74242795416659912432007-03-12T16:09:00.000-04:002007-03-12T16:22:07.648-04:00

"There is no known holy book that won't burst into flames as he approaches . . . Not even a wear-worn, dog-eared copy of Dianetics. Well, maybe they can swear him in on a Wall Street Journal." -- Is it Opposite Day on Capitol Hill or what? Sen. Schumer and the Judiciary Committee want none other than Karl "Toady In Chief" Rove to testify about PurgeGate, which has his inky black fingerprints all

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-47484087654103325882007-03-09T14:18:00.000-05:002007-03-09T14:55:12.489-05:00

Better late than never, here's the Hey Baby, What's Your Sign? Edition of Ticket Stub:* Zodiac -- I never thought this day would come, but I absolutely loved this David Fincher movie. The man who brought forth the brain-scarring nihilism of Se7en and launched its zillion low-rent imitators topped my list of uniquely loathsome humans for over a decade. Watching his movies was like having him

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-71117222449127340452007-03-09T14:03:00.000-05:002007-03-09T14:18:15.271-05:00

"Who the hell is going to enforce the immigration laws?" -- Apparently, another totally unqualified Bush crony named Julie Myers. This week's INS/ICE raid on a New Bedford sweatshop has left the Gov hopping mad, hundreds of workers flown out of state and detained, children and spouses left in the lurch, and the factory owner out on bail, of course. Perky apologist Myers is turning out to be the "

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-11803978263331476412007-03-08T13:41:00.000-05:002007-03-08T13:51:02.503-05:00

I think I have created a perfect workday beverage -- that could easily make the leap to happy hour refreshment! It's the Mo-Tea-To, folks. This morning I felt like changing up my usual teatime routine of 1 Twinings English Breakfast + 1/2 packet of Equal + 1 packet True Lemon, which is awesome and is basically a hot Arnold Palmer toddy (minus the toddy). I selected instead a Mint Medley teabag

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-25391274504537836672007-03-08T13:25:00.000-05:002007-03-08T13:52:43.716-05:00

"The right-wing ideologues who have championed outsourcing, offshoring and union-busting, who have celebrated the same changes that have condemned American workers to lives of financial instability, piously lament the decline of family stability that has followed these economic changes as the night the day." -- Harold Myerson of the Washington Post socks it to the GOP and their two-faced "

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-37557818149521900842007-03-05T09:20:00.000-05:002007-03-05T09:26:18.939-05:00

The X Files at #4, not bad -- Check out Boston.com's Top 50 Sci-Fi TV Shows list, and be amazed: Futurama, Firefly and The Outer Limits all beat by Xena! Let the quibbling begin...I propose Tales of the Gold Monkey and Voyagers! be added posthaste.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-55274087672113688322007-03-01T11:02:00.000-05:002007-03-01T11:04:45.062-05:00

"Come along and ride on a...fantastic voyage!" -- I hear Coolio when gazing into the incredible work of Jen Stark.

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-17718809656348533822007-03-01T10:50:00.000-05:002007-03-01T10:58:15.984-05:00

I had a very strange Socio-Roadside Sighting yesterday -- Driving home at about 3:15pm through our little residential suburb, when there are still some kids walking home from school, I saw two figures out of the corner of my eye waiting to cross the street. At first glance I registered, "Awww, a little teenage boyfriend and girlfriend, cute." I vaguely registered a young blond girl with a

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-76018759259152261972007-03-01T10:49:00.000-05:002007-03-01T10:50:02.881-05:00

"A 74-year-old Italian woman was shocked to find a live grenade in a sack of potatoes she had bought at a market." -- It's the headline of the day!

emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-80436971181598464042007-03-01T10:41:00.000-05:002007-03-01T10:47:25.986-05:00

"I would not have had that last glass of wine last night or the curly fries I wolfed down on the way to work." -- Yum. On the occasion of her 6-year blogiversary, the mighty Dooce has opened a comment thread asking, what would you, if you could, go back and do differently in your life? Hundreds of entries so far, from the mundane to the poignant and back again. I have a few tweaks in mind...

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Note To Self -- Drive to Canada. Find pharmacy or candy store. Buy some Canadian Cadbury MiniEggs. Devour.

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"Just promise to never make Anchorman II..." -- Works for me! The highlight of the Oscars [aside from the 10th anniversary festivities at my house, woo!] was this musical tribute to the "forgotten" comedian by these three lunkheads...awesome. Despite tepid hosting from Ellen, deeply pointless clip montages ["Hollywood Loves America" by Michael Mann {WTF?!} left us all in stunned/bored silence],

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"Get with the latest trend and adorn yourself with these lightweight arm warmers." -- No thanks, mine came attached to my shirt. For free!

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