So George Lucas is working on a Star Wars TV show . . . which isn't news to any fanboy or fangirl.  What surprises me is that the new show will revolve around The Clone Wars.  I had read on numerous sites that GL was going to focus on what happened between Episode III and Episode IV.  And frankly, I'd much rather watch that than more Clone Wars ( Read more... )

Some have posited that the Democrats might be able to take back the House and the Senate, thanks to the scandal surrounding former rep. Foley.  And as usual, the scandal involves nookie.  I'm glad to see people in a "throw the bums out" mood.  Most interesting is that it's conservative Christians who are up in arms over this.  However pleased I am ( Read more... )

It just dawned on me that the only fruits and vegetables I've eaten in the past week have been in the form of potato chips and apple pie.

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I might be just a pork chop sandwich away from a heart attack.  Oh well.  I've had a good run.

On September 11, 2001, I was at my office in Boston when the first plane hit in New York.  I was ignorant of anything happening that morning until after the second plane hit.  A colleague of mine had read online that two planes hit the World Trade Center.  Not long after that, another colleague spread the news that there was an explosion at the ( Read more... )

Apparently I'm not the only person fascinated by the bi-polar dichotomy between the thin and the fat in this country...


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[Still haven't cleaned up my LJ page. Will do so sometime when I'm not ranting.]

The New York Times has an interesting article today on the cult of thinness in the fashion industry.  Apparently, some designers are finally beginning to realize that maybe...just maybe...they shouldn't be starving their models to death.  Of course, this is nothing new ( Read more... )

I'm just getting this up and running. Site will be nicer in a few days. Stay tuned.