This sweet job opportunity just fell in my lap, and I thought one of y'all might be interested, or know someone who would be. The main catch is moving to Healdsburg for 6 months. The main incentive: $10k a month to write about wine ( Read more... )

If you're having one of those days, or weeks, I give you

Cute Things Falling Asleep!

Scroll down til you see the puppy in the bowl of water. Oh, my goodness.

My friend Keith created a Cafe Press store to express his disappointment with the outcome of Prop 8. Bitter? You betcha. But he has a point.

I started crying when he quoted the Gettysburg address, but I really lost it here:

"Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope."

The whole awesome speech.

I am so excited to vote today! Election Day is one of my favorite days to be an American, and I'm more thrilled about that in this election than any other.

I am voting today because of all the people before me who fought so hard, for YEARS, for this privilege, and it should not be wasted.

I am voting today because even though it's just one vote, ( Read more... )

This is for everyone on my f-list who's tired of all the political/current events/whatever videos & blogs (mine included) lately.

A shiny gold star for anyone who can tell me what this song is. I know it, and I can't name it, and it's driving me crazy.

This quiz made me think of all my artist friends here, especially Mz pills . I got 82% right just going through it quickly/instinctively, not looking anything up or double-checking. Considering I've never taken art history and I'm just an avid art museum goer, I thought that was pretty good.

I really need to check out LACMA. The fact that I've only ever ( Read more... )

I met Amy Sedaris and also I'm fighting Prop 8 in California. Check it out, help if you can!

Note: There is a NATIONAL movement to raise money for Prop 8 to ban gay marriage in California, in hopes that it will set a precedent in other states. We need support from states across the union to defeat this proposition!

I was about a foot away from Joe Biden last night. I would have shook (shaken? shook. shaken?) his hand, but I was busy trying to get pictures of Alf shaking his hand, since he was kind enough to bring me along to the reception in the first place.

What it was, was a cocktail reception (with a cash bar), where Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los ( Read more... )