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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Like Rain
As many of you know, Spring and Summer…and Fall and Winter, to be honest, of 2004, were particularly harrowing seasons for me. Everything I’d ever wanted was gone. Like, I know you shouldn’t spend all your youth as a girl, … Continue reading
Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Miscellaneous, Romance, Women
Tagged 2004, Demeter Rain, favorite scents, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, H&M, Hick's Nursery, Jessica SImpson's Dessert, JLo Glo, Juicy lip gloss, leopard print, life fail, Love's Baby Soft, marriage, Otto the Ghost, single women, the future, Tommy Girl perfume
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Breaking Butterflies
And what I know is that everything I touch just turns to dust … ~ Craig Manning When I was in second grade, I was pretty prone to misbehavior. One evening, my mother caught me trying to forge her signature … Continue reading
Home For Dinner
Some nights when I was growing up, my mom would be all, “I’m tired and do not FEEL like cooking. Do you guys want to get pizza?” And we’d be thrilled, because we were kids, and IMO pizza nights are … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, Family, Food, Lists
Tagged Beef Stroganoff, Bisquick, canned corn, Childhood meals, chili, Clam Fritters, comfort foods, Freaks and Geeks, Halloween, I don't feel like cooking, kidney beans, Kraft macaroni and cheese, MIsh-Mash, Noodle Mess, oven fried chicken, roasts, Wiches Brew
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Lights Go Down
I managed to get away somehow. I wasn’t sure what I was running from, but some others from the house and I were trying to get away. We’d just entered a forested area that was harder to run through, but … Continue reading
Posted in Dreams, Supernatural :o
Tagged Dreams, entrapment, evil houses, getting hurt in your dreams, running, shark corpse, taken prisoner, white lights
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The Ballad of Pecan
It was a Spring day in 1996. I was in my bedroom on the third floor of my Baldwin family home, with two new kittens that were now my babies. One orange and white, one tabby/stray that earned him the … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Apartments & Other Domiciles, Cats, Childhood, Driving & Other Transportation, Family, Friends, Miscellaneous, Women
Tagged 1996, ACE bandage, Archie Andrews, Bootsie's Ghost, brothers, cats as family, cats glaring at you from underneath the Christmas tree, Christmas, Cordelia Chase, Crispin, Cupcake, cynical cats, Da End of Da Road, Da Kitties, Da Pets, Dead Man's Party Season 3 Buffy, family moving away, Game of Thrones, happy for the community, hot apple cider, Jughead Jones, Ken Kesey, long life, madonna/whore complex, Magic Trip, Molloy college, North Shore Animal League, obligatorily indignant, Oneonta, Pecan, phileo love, poets, possums, proverbial eyebrows, Pumpkin, RIP, Rupert Giles, Seth Green, Spring, Spring 2008, Stella Luna is the best restaurant in Oneonta, tabby cats, The Shield, the sixties, Tommy, tummy rubs, turning 25, Vic Mackey, Walton Goggins, Welcome home Tommy, West Side Story
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My 2008 Academy Awards® Recap
I am nothing if not topical, so I hope that on this balmy August 2012 evening, you will enjoy this recap of the 2008 Oscars! It’s been 10 years since I truly enjoyed an Oscars® show, but it was worth … Continue reading
Posted in AcTING!, Celebrities, Driving & Other Transportation, Entertainment, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Superheroes/Villains, Theater, Work
Tagged 2008 Academy Awards, 2008 Oscars, A.R. Rahman, Alicia Keys, Amanda Seyfried, Art Direction, Ben Stiller, Best Animated Short Film La Maison en Petits Cubes, Best Original Screenplay Milk, Best Supporting Actor Heath Ledger, Best Visual Effects Benjamin Button, Beyonce, Bill Maher, Cinematography Slumdog Millionaire, comic book movies, Costume Design The Duchess, crystal curtain, dancing, Daniel Craig, Danny Boyle, Danny Boyle Best Director, Danny McBride, Departures Best Foreign Language Film, Eddie Murphy, Film Editing, Freida Pinto, George Burns, Hancock movie, Hollywood, Hugh Jackman, I chose love, Iron Giant, Jack Black, Jack Nicholson, Jai Ho Best Original Song, James Franco, janus Kaminsky, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Jennifer Aniston, Jerry Lewis, Jessica Biel, Joaquin Phoenix, Kate Winslet, Kevin Kline, legalize marijuana, Liam Neeson, Libertarian movies, Look at me, magic trick, Makeup Oscar Benjamin Button, Mamma Mia! movie, Man On Wire Best Documentary, Milk, Natalie Portman, Nicolas Cage bird on head your argument is invalid, period movie artistry, Pineapple Express, Queen Latifah I'll Be Seeing You, Reese Witherspoon, Richie Cunningham, Roberto Benigni 1998 Oscars, Romance montage 2008 Oscars, Ron Howard, Salma Hayek, Sci-Fi Technical Awards, Sean Penn, Sean Penn Best Actor Milk, Seth Rogen, Shirley Maclaine makes Anne Hathaway cry, silver hair, singing, Slumdog Millionaire Best Adapted Screenplay, Smile Pinki Best Documentary Short Film, Sophia Loren, Sound Editing The Dark Knight, Sound Mixing Slumdog Millionaire, Spielzeugland Live Action Short Film, Steven Spielberg, Sunshine movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The New Boy, Tina Fey, Vanessa Hudgens, WALL-E Best Animated Feature, Will Smith, Wolverine, Zac Efron
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5 Movies That Creeped Me Out As a Kid
So there were movies growing up that simply terrified me like “Salem’s Lot,” or traumatized me via ghouls and angry houses, like “The Amityville Horror” and that one movie with the moving-eye George Washington portrait. Brrr. There were movies that … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, Entertainment, Family, Lists, Miscellaneous, Movies, Superheroes/Villains
Tagged 1985 HBO Fortress, Australia, creepy kids movies, Don't Tell Her It's Me, Fairuza Balk, Father Christmas, Fortress, ghouls, hair won't stop growing, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, New Zealand accents, Poltergeist, Return to Oz, Robot Chicken, Romper Room, Salem's Lot, scary ducks, Seth Green, shots of breast milk, Steve Guttenberg, The Amityville Horror, The Craft, The Dark Crystal, The Disney Channel, The Electric Company, The Electric Grandmother, The Peanut Butter Solution, The Secret of N.I.M.H., Vacation Bible School
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