I have been reading Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress.  The woman who wrote this is about 5-10 years older than me and so many of her childhood thoughts seem to mirror mine.  It is a hilarious book!

The section I am reading right now made a reference to The Candyman song....

remember....

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Who can take a sunrise,
Sprinkle it with dew?
Cover it in ( Read more... )

Timmy Kirk... guy who tried to be spiritual leader (evil of course) in oz... plays murderous fake psycho priest in svu

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I saw this video at misssnarktastic.vox.com and I thought... really... it was heartwarming.  It brought tears to my eyes... watch it through to the end.

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I have watching over the last month or so all the seasons of Oz.  I am almost done and have no discs currently at home for the last season so I decided to watch some Law &order svu.  I knew Chris Meloni played keller on oz and stabler on svu, but I was surprised to see quite a few other characters from oz show up in episodes of svu ( Read more... )

Every Crooked pot by renee Rosen -  YA book.  About a girl with a large birthmark on her face covering one of her eyes.  how she trys to hide it, how her parents try to fix it, and how she finally accepts who she is.  for every crooked pot (the girl) there is a crooked lid (boy who loves her).  Ok book.

hunger Games  by Suzanne Collins  -  highly recommended!!  I thoroughly  enjoyed this YA book.  Action, drama, intense scenes, people learning about themselves and others amidst tradedies left and right

All we ever wanted was everything by Janelle brown -  started out just good but migrated into very good by the end.  Families take care of each other!!

This past sunday my son and my brother ran the denver marathon.  My son Tony finished in 3 hours 40 minutes (unofficial time...he didn't cross the starting line until after 5 minutes into the actual race).  My brother finished in a little over 5 hours (but he came from atlanta ... 900 ft above sea level to 5280 feet above sea level ( Read more... )

The Road by Cormac Mccarthy  -  Interesting book.  As a general rule I don't really like books that are too descriptive, but this one had too little.  I was thinking to myself that this could really be a powerful  movie though... and when I went to amazon to get a link I saw there are books with movie tie ins...so must be coming soon.  In a post ( Read more... )