So I already told some of you about this, but it deserved to be blogged too. This was AMAZING. Rik explains it better here, but my version of the backstory is that this is an iconic Nina Simone piece that takes swing music and throws some Bach piano styling on top of it. I love the piece, I love to listen to it, I love to dance to it, but I've ( Read more... )

Courtesy of my sister, this one is a real gem. And I think the subtitles REALLY make it.

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this was so frackin funny. Bill Maher, via MR. Worth reading, but the funny parts (i.e. 65% of the article) excerpted below:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/new-rule-smart-president_b_253996.htmlOn the eve of the Iraq War, 69% of ( Read more... )

This is the funniest, snarkiest, meanest (but in a funny mean way) article I've EVER seen on the NYT. I am a bad person, but I laughed. And then as I kept laughing, I excerpted bits on IM to friends. And there turned out to be so many excerpts that I'm just posting the whole thing for you, below the cut.

( J. C. Penney has always trafficked in knockoffs that aren’t quite up to Canal Street’s illegal standards. It was never “get the look for less” so much as “get something vaguely shaped like the designer thing you want, but cut much more conservatively, made in all-petroleum materials, and with a too-similar wannabe logo that announces your inferiority to evil classmates as surely as if you were cursed to be followed around by a tuba section.'' )

Still so pretty. (bonus: sounds a lot less stupid on camera now than he did 12 years ago.)

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that you can have Koala biscuits WHENEVER YOU WANT, without permission from your mom. :-D


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(You may or may not choose to remark on how this is, in some/any way, related to the previous entry ( Read more... )

Just a few. Non-comprehensive list.

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Hulahooping on the sidewalk in front of the Kate Spade store on Fifth Ave in the late-afternoon sun wearing a little shirt, denim miniskirt & heels, together with a number of women in bold stripes & fabulous shoes (like this!), a few little kids, and a couple of game men in jeans & sandals. :-) We took up ( Read more... )

to see your team go down like that. Not just the fact that they lost, but the *way* they lost -- it's one thing to go down in a blaze of glory, and quite another to be a shadow of your usual self, which is what we got today. I'll love them still and forever, but I do wish we'd put up a better showing tonight ( Read more... )

I'm in a oversharing mood, and I know there are a number of Adam Lambert watchers out there... Lize and I were marveling over this live performance this weekend.

There is a possibility he is channeling an alter ego named Sabrina... but more realistically, this is just one of his many Not-So-Secret Sides. :-)

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Btw, XY! I remember you saying your ( Read more... )