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September 11th
Sorry to be unoriginal, but it really was a day like any other, when it started. As per tradition, I missed the train I really should have gotten, in order to get to work at the time that, despite all … Continue reading
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Tagged Amtrak, Catholic, church, Manhattan, New York City, religion, September 11th, St. Francis Church, Twin Towers
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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 Family, Miscellaneous, Women, Friends, Childhood, Cats, Apartments & Other Domiciles, Driving & Other Transportation, Animals
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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Just Biology
“We really are just biology, aren’t we?” Nate Fisher says, upon seeing a corpse in “The Invisible Woman,” an episode of S2 “Six Feet Under.” It was a woman who’d become particularly decayed, as no one found her for awhile, … Continue reading
Posted in AcTING!, Celebrities, Childhood, Driving & Other Transportation, Entertainment, Family, Friends, Miscellaneous, Movies, Supernatural :o, TV, Women
Tagged afterlife, claire isher, diet pills, emily previn, freddy rodriguez, funerals, Grey's Anatomy, hope, nate fisher, peter krause, ruth fisher, six feet under, the invisible woman, vegetarianism
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5 Reasons to Watch “Magic Trip”
So the other night, Josh borrowed “Magic Trip” from the library. As is the case with many of the movies he recommends, I’d both never heard of it before, and had no idea what to expect. All I knew was … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Celebrities, Driving & Other Transportation, Entertainment, Friends, Going Out, Lists, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Superheroes/Villains, Supernatural :o, Vacations, Work
Tagged 16 mm color footage, 1964, Alex Gibney, Alison Elwood, Allen Ginsberg, apple doesn't fall far from the tree, artistry, Avengers, charisma, documentary, drugs, English majors, Fourth Amendment, fun and wistful, Furthur bus, Jack Kerouac, Jack Nicholson, jail, Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry, Libertarian, Magic Trip, McMurphy, Neal Cassady, painting buses, rebels, spirit, Stark Naked, startstruck, Stephen King, The Huffington Post, The Merry Pranksters, Timothy Leary, Travis Birkenstock, trolling, weird, Wikipedia
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