You’ve probably heard by now…seems impossible to miss thanks to the media…that Bradgelina had a baby. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been hiding out in Africa to avoid the media and have the baby there. A few days after the baby’s birth Bradgelina donated $300,000 to Namibia hospitals and $15,000 to local schools (I [...]
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Things have been crazy and sad lately, so although I started several blogs last week, I didn’t finish or post them until tonight. Scroll down to see the new entries. (My favorite is the art glass blog on May 22, but it isn’t the most important post.) We had a sad Memorial Day Weekend in my neighborhood because my next-door neighbor died in her sleep. She’s had a lot of health problems, but this was a terrible shock. Mardi and her family have lived here for ages and she touched a lot of people with her loving and nurturing behavior. We’re all [...] I watched The Family Stone movie after a few people told me it was better than they expected. That, of course, is a dangerous recommendation. It doesn’t mean the movie was great. It doesn’t mean the movie was good. It also doesn’t mean the movie was bad. It simply means the movie was better than [...] Anthony Horowitz shared very disappointing news during the radio interview I mentioned earlier…he will soon be writing the last three episodes of Foyle’s War. Since season 4 has already run in the U.K. and season 5 is currently being filmed…I’m guessing his revelation means season 6 will be the last. Total bummer. I guess if [...] A simple, yet elegantly accurate, review of Elizabethtown: Ugh. Worst movie I’ve seen in a long time. Better referred to as phlegm than film. Bleh. I mean could the acting have been any more contrived and over-the-top? Could the script have been more superficial? Could the southern stereotypes have been any thicker? Warning: Don’t bother with this [...] Reggie had another minor surgery yesterday to remove stones from his bladder and to have his teeth cleaned. He’s doing pretty well today, but is very tired and in some discomfort. At least he doesn’t have stitches and doesn’t have to wear his e-collar (a.k.a., the cone-head collar, satellite-dish head collar, or bobble-head collar). Fortunately, the [...] The past few days I’ve been attending a class taught by Michael Dupille on Glass Mold Making for Kiln Casting. I’ve been doing art glass work, ranging from mosaics, stained glass, hot glass beads, and kiln work, for the past few years, but this was my first experience making molds. Unfortunately, I don’t have as [...] A cellphone almost killed a child today…I saw the event with my very own eyes. There were two boys riding their bikes and two cars and one cellphone. I drove the second car, a bit back from the action, and had a clear view. Only, it wasn’t the car drivers with the cellphones…it was one of [...] Now is it just me or is this weird? There’s a television show called Bones. It’s not the greatest show…too much fake crime scene technology, too many bad actors past the leads, too much weak writing; so don’t worry if you don’t know what I’m talking about. (NO! I know that poor TV shows are not [...] It’s been a rough few days for Reggie, my Miniature Schnauzer. He had his semi-annual check up last Wednesday and everything looked good…except his teeth and the remaining stones in his bladder. We knew there were stones left in his bladder from his previous procedure (here and here), but one looked big. So Reggie will [...] I’ve add a Search tool to my blog. It’s currently at the top of the right column, but will probably get moved further down in that column in a few days. Use the tool to search just this blog (re-read all my posts about adorable Reggie, by searching his name ;-). The tool can also be [...] As part of my job I proofread stuff. Now I’m a decent, but not fabulous, proofer. I’m decent because I’m detail-oriented, but not fabulous because I don’t know the rules of grammar as well as I should. I know them pretty well, but not to the level a professional proofreader or copyeditor should. So I’d [...] ALERT: Anthony Horowitz radio interview on "It’s a Mystery." For those of you that like Foyle’s War, which should be everyone!, or the Alex Rider books, or the Diamond Brother’s series, writer/creator Anthony Horowitz is being interviewed today (May 15) at 10:00 A.M. (Central Time). The radio show is called "It’s a Mystery" and can heard [...] Shoeboxes are one of my favorite childhood memories. Not shoeboxes with shoes in them…special shoeboxes. Back before Gameboys, PSPs, and video monitors in cars, mothers had to be creative to keep children entertained (read: not whining) on long car trips. When my brother and I were very young, Mum made shoebox treasure troves and gave [...] Do you do this? Be honest now… Have you ever turned on the TV or been flipping through the channels when you discover a movie or TV show is playing RIGHT NOW on the telly and you sit there watching it…EVEN THOUGH you already own it on DVD or video! Am I the only nut that does [...] A few years ago U.S. television networks discovered a way they could squeeze a little more "value" into their air time. Do you remember this? That’s when they started squeezing a show’s closing credits in to a tiny section of the screen and ran promos for other shows in the remaining–larger–area of the screen. Tonight [...] The weather was fabulous today! I was in Chicago for a little while, but didn’t think to take a camera–except for the one in my cellphone. So here are a few low-quality cellphone camera images of the Field’s clocks I’ve mentioned a few times. Both pictures are of the clock at State and Randolph.
"I won’t get stolen. I promise." That’s a line I overheard tonight at a bookstore. I was looking at books in Fiction when the boy and girl near me started talking. The girl was saying something about "going next door," but I didn’t pay much attention, until she said: "I won’t get stolen. I promise." It [...]
Yes, that really is George Lucas' head (or a replica of it) on a storm trooper action figure. Read about it here: George Lucas takes on new role: Storm Trooper action figure. |
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