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The bad news is, '9 to 5' played at the midnight movies in Dallas a couple weeks ago and I MISSED IT. This would have been the perfect kick-off for the 9 to 5 slumber party I've always wanted to host. Even if logic tells me that most Dallas types are too stuffy for such madcap adventures in high fashion, I like to imagine that the audience was a ( Read more... )

It took some sleuthing, but I finally tracked down the picture of Winona Ryder doing an impromptu impersonation of Little Edie Beale ( Read more... )

This morning I was meditating on cocktails, thinking about how nice a Tom Collins sounded after a long week. Then I started wondering, if there's a cocktail called Tom Collins (gin + sour mix + soda) and another called John Collins (bourbon + sour mix + soda), wouldn't it stand to reason that Jackie Collins would stand among the line-up ( Read more... )

As an internet junkie, the three things I look forward to most are getting email, reading your LJ posts, and checking out the Merriam-Webster words of the day. These are some of my favorite recent M-W words du jour! I like reading the word history best of all, and sometimes their word selections make me chuckle.

( TYPHOID MARY! )

Poll Subliminal Messages

This morning I was flipping through an early '70s movie star magazine when I found myself studying this ad for Salem cigarettes.


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One handy tip I've learned from Jayne Mansfield is that fresh tomato juice + fresh lemon juice = perfect hangover cure. Jayne, in her latter years a notorious lush, frequently ordered hotel staff to squeeze tomatoes for her, strain the juice, then follow suit with lemons and combine the liquids in precisely equal parts. She demanded several ( Read more... )

I've spent the past three mornings waiting for my car to be repaired. The problems were supposedly corrected each time; and yet each morning, the warning lights go flashing again, sending me back to the shop three times in a row. And guess what! They were unable to work on it today, so I get to go back again on Monday ( Read more... )

Rummaging through the one & only local Goodwill this morning, I was disappointed to find that the selections here are pretty meager. Predictably, the books are either romantic or religious, and the same goes for the music.

Amid the crap I made one outstanding find:

'Jesus Set Me Free: The Personal Testimony of LULU ROMAN' ... personally ( Read more... )