Each year I re-post the memories which many of you have shared with me of your experiences on 9/11 and I ask the rest of you to please tell me your stories, too.

Ten years after that awful day, I still grieve, as do many of you.  And I'm still interested in hearing about where you were that day and your experiences were, whether you were oblivious ( Read more... )

My hubby, the Resident Film Snob, has up his video editorial on What the Academy Got Right and Wrong.  Watch. Enjoy his artsy-fartsy genius.  ;o)

Happy Birthday, mockingbird39!  It's midnight in Boston now, and judging by your earlier texts (you do remember those, right?) you'll be pretty hungover by morning.  So I'm posting now.  In honor of your current state of being (and since I couldn't deliver Captain Jack to you. I tried, but he's still in some off-planet bar, hitting on some sailor), I bring you:

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Happy Birthday, humantales!

My hubby has some more film reviews up, for those of you who are movie buffs.

Black Swan - Darren Aronofsky
All Good Things - Andrew Jarecki
Animal Kingdom - David Michôd
Rabbit Hole - John Cameron Mitchell

Oh my gawd  - the Abzorbaloff is real! And on Earth!!

Lucky for us, it only craves a fishy mate.

But still! Ewwww!

Happy birthday to wonderfulwrites, jlrpuck, and serianna, who all share this significant day with me; Madame de Pompadour; my homeland: the great State of Texas; Ireland; the Second Great Fire of London; a whole lot of famous musicians, actors and other artsy folks; and my dorm's Spiritual Representative, whom I cursed out while we were at Bible college.  Whoops. Aside from ( Read more... )

Pookie is in here watching the Buffy musical, "Once More With Feeling," which the hubby and I thought would be okay for her at this point.  She loves musicals, there's nothing too graphic or scary in this episode, and not any adult content for us to be concerned about.

And yet.

Now I find myself in an argument with her about why she can't mimic Spike ( Read more... )

The Grammar Goddess (aka emluv) should have had this resource available to her back in her days of instructing certain ones of us.

SUPER awesome comics about irritating misspellings: Click Here.

Other fantabulous comics, including many more about punctuation, grammar, spelling, annoying people and CATS: Click Here

I'm a sucker for old commercials, particularly those that get me bawling (which is not really a hard thing to accomplish, truthfully). So here are some links and a poll for you.

Poll Favorite Christmas Commercial

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