tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73794672012-01-18T13:09:14.920-05:00It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else you must run twice as fast. - The Queen from Through the Looking GlassPetiteDovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432997239343872750noreply@blogger.comBlogger20301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379467.post-86364540806150596142012-01-18T13:09:00.002-05:002012-01-18T13:09:14.927-05:00

Check mate, I have the cutest niece evah: My niece as Cinderella.

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There are just some songs that I absolutely love, but hate the lyrics. Neko Case's "Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth" is one such songs. The song is so preachy, it could have been written by a overly emotional teenager (but I repeat myself), except the actual music is gorgeous and I can't stop listening to it. I guessing that's why I like a lot of French songs. I bet if I knew what

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Sweet Pea by Tommy Roe (I just actually watched the video, instead of only listening to the song. Tommy is kind of creepy, right?)

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I love her deadpan.

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Song about "winged swings" sounds retarded in Enlgish but beautiful in Russian.

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I had mine for almost a week now. I've hated coughing ever since my operation last year, where the aftermath was a three months coughing fit. I'm going back and forth of whether it's just a cough or my cancer has returned with full vigor. Did I mention how much fun it is in my brain.

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I had a few plans for yesterday that involved socializing with some friends in Williamsburg and doing some food shopping. Inevitably the plans fell trhough and on a beautiful November day Peter and I stayed in. He mostly slept, not feeling well, and I cleaned and fussed on the computer. In the evening I reflected how the day was probably one of the most romantic days I've ever experienced. Weird

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Whenever I'm filling out any kind of document that makes reference to punishement for false information, I inevitably get an guilty feeling. It doesn't matter that I am filling out these forms in good faith, something makes my heart race a lot quicker as I sign that tax form or any another beauracratic piece of paper. The thought that maybe I didn't tell the whole truth creeps up and spintails

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I'm not one to re-watch/re-read too many movies/books. There are exceptions. When I was in school, every time I got sick, I used to watch Anne in Green Gables series. So I have the tendency it just that it's rare. Besides Kieslowski,  Miyazaki, and  Kar Wai Wong movies I tend to watch things once. There is also John Hughes movies. I, like a lot of others, can quote The Breakfast Club verbatim.

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“Just because you’re alive doesn’t mean you’re healthy and vibrant.”from a article on old parents that touches a nerve.

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I have now watched Freak & Geeks and Undeclared. I think Judd Apatow should come back to television. I love his characters - funny and flawed people. I'm so tired of canned story lines starring perfect looking people. I guess there is his movies to look forward to.

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I'm not sure what happened but somewhere along the lines I gave myself permission to eat like a pregnant lady this summer. The results are what you might expect from someone who decides to eat chocolate or ice cream just because the mood striked (maybe every single day). There is a great line from a Ray Bradburry's Dandelion Wine about a perfect woman not being too skinny or too fat from the love

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I've spent most of my life around people who are older than me. I feel like I never took the time to enjoy being the age I actually am. Also, the stupid cancer got in a way of a lot of fun. I need to change that. I need to rethink some things to do before I turn 30. Jumping out of an airplane or getting a tattoo are not in the cards though.

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Alternatively titled: Things I Do When I Should Be Be Productive So apparently I saw Snakes on the Plane movie. I did not remember this very important occurance. Which proves to me I need to keep this baby going, since I will look back in my old age and might actually remember something.

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"Compromise is fantastic. I would love nothing more than to leave this building tomorrow night having said 'The Republic still works' I was able to stand shoulder to shoulder with people from states far from mine, with views different from mine but who love their country so much they were able to come together and save it when it faced this catastrophe. I would love nothing more than a compromise

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Things I shouldn't look at, but invariably do:Cute children's clothes/toysShoe websiteDiscount Clothes websitesDesigner Furniture websitesFancy Cooking Things websiteCooking classes websitesTravel for cheap websites.....In order not to spend money I must not give my chance to actually spend it. Ugh. Stupid no-having-job situation.

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I found this exchange hilarious. From "Stuff my girlfriend says":Because she wasn’t drinking alcohol, a friend asked if she was pregnant.“Why? Do you have to be sober to get an abortion?”

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There some singers and actors that I loathe to know about their private lives. It's like Corinne Bailey Rae's "Put Your Records On" is such a simple, sweet song. But every time I listen to it, I start thinking about Rae's overdosed husband, how is she coping with his death? The sweetness of the song just emphasizes the cruelty of the situation. She probably doesn't need my pity and yet there it

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Sometimes when you can do anything, there is only the monkey and the urge to dance. I always think of this when I need rouse my lazy bum and do something!

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Lately I have been obsessed with making Peter's apartment our home. I'm looking at a bunch of websites in order to figure out how to arrange our little studio to both give us privacy, comfort, enough space to do what we like, and to occasionally make room for a guest or two who might want to visit us. It's fun but a little daunting...since Peter's idea of a budget for the new stuff is a bit lower

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Esquire covers a few variations on my favorite drink, gin & tonic.Gin:"Thanks to an herbaceous and floral nature primarily lent by juniper, gin's piney complexity mixes well with citrus, fruit, and herbs, making it the ideal base for steamy weather. Though its origins lie in Dutch genever (a juniper-flavored malt-wine spirit), historically, gin is the drink of the English"

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This made me laugh. It's completely untimely and irrelevant, except that bad puns is what I do and making fun of CSI:Miami is always fun. Also, taking off glasses to reveal another pair. Plain awesome.

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Even heavy metal covers of music from Studio Ghibli. Here's a cover of My Neighbor Totoro theme.

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So I decided a while ago not to watch anymore Holocaust related movies whethere fiction or documentaries, for my well being. I just can't handle the subject matter, in the past it has left me incapacitated - and yet, because this is the history of my people I am drawn to. Thus I recently found myself watching A Film Unfinished, a documentary about the Nazis attempt to create a movie of the Warsaw

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Apparently the Japanese do everything better than others. Even cat videos. Seriously, I sat through the whole thing and smiled almost the whole time. Who am I? I also enjoyed a small part of the video where the cat licks the finger. Seriously, when I had my adopted cat, it was the best feeling when she licked my fingers or toes. #nonpevertedwayofcourseP.S. Sometimes I wish I was born Japanese,

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I'm not sure if it's Stephane's influence or what, but I've been watching a lot of movies lately. Actually to a movie or two in a theater. Something I haven't done in quite a long while.Source CodeIt all started innocently enough with Peter suggesting to see Atlas Shrugged, Yaron and Lee also were in the mood for some light Ayn Rand's propaganda, thus joined us on a very rainy night in Manhattan.

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If we get to be parents, this is precisely the reason I want to have more than one child. It might be selfish, but I'm a (future) Jewish mother and the idea of losing a child feels me with dread and I don't even have one.The last few paragraphs made me a little weepy, from John Hodgman's, "Apologia to My Second Child":And so you see, I cannot take the risk. Like a farmer who needs children to

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I've been brooding for a while now. Even with so many blessings in my life, there's been, to say the least, a lot of challenges. I've been looking at my past thinking about what went wrong and realizing that in fact it's a defeatist attitude. Maybe instead of being so harsh with myself and my mistakes, instead of looking at all the defeats I have suffered, suffering, and will suffer I can look at

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Love what Gary Shteyngart says in the Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross about the dying culture of books, or more accuratety the dying culture of readers of novels and our mind unable to keep up with the amount of information being thrown at it (btw he isn't a technophobe).Mr. SHTEYNGART: Yeah, no, it's so depressing. I feel like I'm insane to write novels. I'm like one of those, you know,

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It's been a while since I had a kitchen of my own. My mother, the master cook that she is, was very tepid on her invitations to let me use her kitchen. Plus it was a kosher kitchen and I was always afraid to use the wrong spatula with the wrong pan. It got confusing. So it's nice to have a kitchen of my own. It's nice to be counted to be the one to put the meal on the table. In fact I have had

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I've been toying with the idea of starting a new blog. To shed the weight of this one. To start a new place to deposit my thoughts, as I find myself physically living (finally) in a new place. I still don't quite feel at home, but it's only been four days and I know it will take some time to get used to the apartment, the city, and the rthyms that both of us are now forced to share. Plus there is

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A.O. Scott reviews one of my favorite films, Dead Man.

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I really like the campaign "It Gets Better" of older people who are gay, lesbian, transgendered, or just want to support the people who are and prevent teen suicide. My former teacher (Mr. Johnson - the tall, black guy, smiling) happens to be in a Chrome video that features lots of different voices talking how it really does get better as you grow older. I actually think this applies not only to

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Long Live US! Long Live New York!

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The sun is shining. The trees are different colors, pink, white, light green, even a few sprinkles of purple here and there. And, a lot no-shirt-wearing men with beer guts. Ain't Spring grand!?

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I was discovered that French Onion soup can't be just as delicious without the bread in it. (Score! Another low-carb option for me.) I click on Smitten Kitchen and there is a recipe for French Onion soup!I would put much cheese on that though. Yum.

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That Sarah Palin, she didn't even go to Harvard, so dumb that one, asking her stupid questions and wanting to know why the President is doing what he is doing. How dare she question the One and suggest that his views in Law School might shed light on his muddled rhetoric on issues such as bombing Libya. Silly Sarah, the media only cares about dumb Republican's school record. In infamous words of

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Peter has been playing PJ Harvey's Let England Shake album both weekends. Providing a nice soundtrack to clean up that is taking places in our home. I love the sampling of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues": "What if I take my problems to the United Nations?" - depressing and snappy at the same time. The album is fantastic, worth a listen.PS: "All And Everyone" is my favorite track on the album.

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Cheese of course. As Passover ends...thoughts turn to pizza. Not that I can have any. #grumblesabtlowcabdiet

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I'm glad the government is protecting the children. What would we do without them!?!Jigs Patel, who recently opened the London Candy Co. on the Upper East Side, where he is importing candy from the U.K., had already run out of his Kinder eggs by the time he got his visit from a CPSC official just before Easter."They obviously took this very seriously," Patel said. "I actually found it very

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I found this turning matzah into something tasty, kind of hilarious. I mean deduct points for putting BACON with matzah but other than that, awesome. Ian: Just as Moses led the Jews out of Egypt, this sandwich led the skinny Elvis into being the fat Elvis.Peter: Evidence Elvis was a secret Jew? One, he loved his mother. Two, this sandwich. Evidence he was not a Jew? Everything else he ever

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From Sleepless in Seatle:Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while. Sometimes this quote hits incredibly close and then I remember that things can be worse

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This video reminded (also it's hilarious) me of our walk on Venice Beach this past January. They actually have people handing out little business cards with a list of "ailments" a weed card. Only in LA do you get the juxtaposition of Weed & Botox..flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em;

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Gas is disgustingly expensive ($65 a tank - and that's at the cheapest gas station for miles). At this rate I will not be able to travel to see my husband in May, good thing I'm moving in 3 weeks.However, when I sent a whiny e-mail to Peter about the gas prices, I got the following response "Arizona has the cheapest gas in the country and Illinois has the most expensive." Coincidence? I doubt it.

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What love looks like to some people:

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The paradox of owning a car in the city is that once you find a good parking you don't want to leave it. Defeating the whole purpose of a car giving you a sense of freedom. Still, I can get used to this.

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"The Calendar Hung Itself" by BrighteyesI used to listen to this song on days like today, sunny & breezy, feeling slightly fatalistic.

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I found the interview with Noah Glass one of the "forgotten" Twitter inventors fascinating. Mostly of how humble and matter of fact he is about being essentially screwed over.That's a thing I want to reiterate - you're trying to look for the full story. Some people have gotten credit, some people haven't. The reality is it was a group effort. There were lots of people putting ideas into and

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Gwyneth Paltrow wrote a cookbook. And while I don't mean to pile on, this is hilarious.via Kottke

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From Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, "The voice in his head was something very old and very dry, like the scraping of a dead twig against the window of the chapel, and it seemed to Bod that there was more than one voice there, that they were talking in unison."The metaphor above works on so many great levels; visceral, place and character appropriate, and vivid. The whole book works, a good

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Not sure why it's hard for guys to pick up a lady. B.I.G. explained early on:Straight up honey really I'm askin'Most of these fellas think they be mackin' but they be actin'Who they attractin' with that line, "What's your name, what's your sign?"Soon as he buy that wine I just creep up from behindAnd ask what your interests are, "Who you be with?"Things to make you smile, what numbers to dialYou

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I'm fine sorting dirty laundry, putting in the wash, even drying it out and folding, but putting it way in the right place takes days if not weeks. That's the worst part of laundry.

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So I just finished reading Anthony Bourdain's recent installment, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, which reads like a collection of essays about how Bourdain has an amazing life and why he feels guilty or alternatively like a hypocrite to be able to travel to so many amazing places, eat the food that he has the opportunity to eat, and mingle with the

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via Jay-Z 's life style blog. No seriously.

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This song makes me want to clean. Also, I remember listening to it when I was ten. #facepalm #horribletasteinmusicwheniwaslittleThis song was brought to you by my coworker saying "baby" several times over and over.

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I went to see Merchant of Venice starring F. Murray Abraham (who is, by the way, not a Jew) as Shylock. The play by Director Tresnjak is stage in modern dress, with Wall Street replacing the Rialto of 16th century Venice. This device, which usually leaves me cold, was used imaginatively - with a bit of proselytizing on the side. The rich and the powerful have different rules that the ordinary

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I think all those DIY wedding blogs trick you into thinking how much fun you are going to have personalizing your very "special" and "unique" invitation/thank you card/centerpiece/table assignment or what have you" However, in reality well it's not as fun as one might think - also all that uniqueness is not quite so unique when you are stamping over and over. Okay, so I'm kind of having fun

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You know it's going to be an interesting day when you hit a bird, mid-flight, with your car. #yeahthathappened

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So there is a huge white "mini" coopers at my works parking lot. I guess that's one of the new models, a supersized mini cooper. Each time I park next to it, it freaks me out. It's like expecting a cute little white bunny but instead you're faced with a giant white rabbit about to devour you. It leaves filling slightly uncanny, the car name has the word mini in it, it should be small!

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A trailer for sequal of a movie, I liked but not as much as I thought I would like. I still say "retard" like Alan. Also I'm bummed that the 4th dude (Doug?) misses on all the fun, again.

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In order to get Rebeca Black's song out of my head I present a rather good song, "Lust by Life" by Girls. The video is a bit pervy, but the song catchy & it includes Pdov approved dancing (a la Molly Ringwald).via PeterP.S. I have this version of "Friday" aka "Gang Fight" stuck in my head.

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I have always been a bit enamored with weirdly shaped cars. At one point, I confess, I even thought of getting a PT Cruiser, only to realize what a horribly ugly car it was. Then there was the fascination with the VW Beetle. Which after test driving it as a rental seems like a great car (turbo engines are very fun), especially having a rather tall husband, yet as far as the needed upkeep (VW

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I'm sure the Germans have a word for it, but I'm trying to come up with it in English and it's failing me. I got to hang out with a friend from Scotland last night and while seeing him was absolutely fantastic (and I'm hoping his job brings him back to our local parts soon), it brought back a whole range of emotions I hadn't anticipated. Specifically of the period of time when I was studying

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So this whole having a husband thing is so much different than having a boyfriend. Like super different. If you ask why or how, I would not be able to say. It just is. Different in the most wonderful way. I'm so happy Peter and I did this. And while I'm still adjusting to the Mrs. part, the leaving behind of my last name feels effortless (especially since it's gazillion letters long).

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Made me think of a not too recent restaurant experience:There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Evening look.

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I complained to our jeweler that my ring was too loose. My (now) husband complained that his ring is too tight. Our rings are quite nice and look well on us. Now my husband wonders if his ring is too big and I wonder about the summer when my fingers will swell up. Lesson: listen to the experts. (Tip for men: always get the ring a smaller size than you think you need. Too many men lose their rings

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When I was a kid, new to America, I read three kinds of books: historical (mostly about the Holocaust, I was slightly obsessed), the classics, and biographies. I loved reading about old movie stars, like Fred Astaire, or writers I admired. Reading over this old post about my heroes reminded me of two things: One, I wish Yaron would write at Daily Lunch again, he's funny. Two, I really love George

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especially when things are working out. When they are not, it's a lot tougher. A lot.

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The best outfits I come up with are right after I do laundry and right before I need to do laundry. Necessity of not going out naked seems to inspire an inner creative fashion maven.

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These kind of commercials always make the subject they are tackling so real and poignant. I love, love all the clips of Portlandia I've seen. The satirizing of hipsters is so spot on.

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I love this video. I've been listening to old cds mixes in the car. Basically, the only thing that made me happy today, besides getting my marriage certificate, is singing at my loudest in the car traveling at 80 mph on the highway.

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Sort of. Getting the permission from the state to get married, more like.

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I decided that I don't like listening to Leonard Cohen during the day. Especially if it's sunny. His music goes down easier at night. I've never been a huge fan of the song Suzanne, it's alright but not as good as Lenny's other songs. One line there always strikes me as totally of the time "And she feeds you tea and oranges / that come all the way from China" - it sounded so exotic at the time.

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You know who is not going to be the terrorist in the crime drama that I watch? (I watch a lot Bones, Lie to Me, Castle, NCIS. Although listen, rather than watch, is more accurate, because while I do mind numbing reports the shows play in the background.)Well it's sure isn't going to be the hard working, devote Muslim immigrant who is suspected at first. Most likely it will be a white guy, with a

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Surprisingly, for someone who's mother is a manicurist, I rarely get manicures. In fact I often get chided for my neglect of my nails from my mom. However, on the rare occasion that I actually do get a manicure I suddenly feel like a sophisticated woman, an adult. I can be that lady in the bank photo, with a closeup of her manicured hands signing a check, that is if I ever wrote a check (I'm more

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Basically when you have someone else money it's easy to "spend it" or give it away! People who pay the taxes don't get represented but people who get paid by the government do. Interesting how that works. P.S. If people want to raise taxes, then they can pay higher taxes themselves. No need to impose the opinion of the rest of us. You want higher taxes? There is no law that says you can't pay

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Decided to listen to Leonard Cohen only at night. The sunlight diminishes the poetry of his music.

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I only heard a snippet of the interview of Grant Achatz, chef behind Alinea. It's fascinating to me his approach and thought on food. I've only heard of him through kottke.org before, when he linked to the website of his newest (soon to be open) restaurant Next. I love of the idea of taking something as mundane and ordinary as eating and turning into art. The way Chef Achatz thinks about food is

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I thought I would be one of those restrained but fun kind of aunts. Not true. Whenever I see something slightly adorable for my niece, I want to get it ASAP. So when I saw this lovely orange (a favorite color of late) dress I feel like I must get it. And get it NOW! But you know $30 bucks for a kid's dress...just doesn't feel right.

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Peter and I are planning the most important part of getting hitched, which is to say we are fantasizing about our honeymoon. Our top destination (barring a sudden million dollar windfall) would be Iceland. So when I came upon the bellow video, it was further confirmation that we are making the correct choice!Inspired by Iceland Video from Inspired By Iceland on Vimeo.(Icelanders are weird)

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I heart Carl Cassel!Others are here.

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I had to learn the hard way, but its advice that I keep close to my heart when traveling: Andrew McCarthy (yes that Andrew McCarthy, the 80's teen heartthrob) is apparently a pretty good travel writer: I love Paul Theroux’s book on train travel in South America – “The Old Patagonian Express.” His travel books were a great influence on the way I traveled early on. They inspired me well out of my

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Your hump day laugh:First see this:Then you realize why I find this so funny:

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I didn't watch it. But I did like the highlight reel of Gervais' ripping into celebrities. I really don't get the whole "he was so mean to the 'poor' celeberties" meme. It was funny, it made the show enjoyable and people really need to lighten up. More of this please - so tired of the same polite jokes. They are adults, they should be able to take some ribbing. #maybeitwillhelpthemchannelanger&

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If you thought of it and you pride yourself on you wonderful discovery/adventure...someone has already done it. Probably better. #truestory

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It's not only alas! Just re-watched the old Sabrina. Billy Wilder was a genius - to make a movie so funny and serious at the same time. This time around I found Sabrina herself, utterly annoying. How could she fall for Linus, I find that the modern take does a better job of convincing us of Linus' and Sabrina's love for each other.

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Bobby Farrell of Boney M recently died in San Petersburg. Turn out he died on same the day as the famous Rasputin (the hit song of Boney M). I thought it was a little bit weird that he died in St. Petersburg (the same city where Rasputin was killed), but them to learn that it was (almost) on the same as Rasputin, a hundred years later made it even more weirder.This exchange made me laugh:Boney M

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I am in San Fran with Peter. The annual new year's in the Bay Area tradition continues! Today we finally made out to the Mission for some delicious burritos, unusual but scrumptious ice cream, and the Pirate store.Peter was a little confused by the concept of the shop. It's a store for kids and anyone who like pirates - what is on sale and not tends to be confusing, since the stores primary goal

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May 2011 be a fuck yeah year!

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Bet you never thought you would see that post title. And I'm not even joking. She's so cute making the Jack Rose. Yum, apple whiskey.BTW, the cider Peter and I made is deeeeeeeeeeelicious.

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Probably going to watch this: Oh the ridiculousness, I like it.

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So I did.

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Now you fucked up! What? What? What? What?I can't say it's super funny, but months after watching it I still say "what" a bunch of times in a row sometimes to myself and sometimes Peter has to endure the randomness that is my brain.

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Kevin Spacey on why he doesn't talk about his rumored homosexuality:Look, at the end of the day people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political. I just think that's horseshit. No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story...I don't see it the duty

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