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January 15, 2007
Jack's back and he's...........
A Vampire!
OK, he looks kind of like a monk in this picture, but trust me he’s a vampire.
Did everybody see him totally bite his captor in the neck in the first 1/2hour of FOX's crazy-mega-4 hour-season premier last night??!. (If not, then this article will provide a recap and a quick laugh) That was so crazy! The second it happened my cuz and I both yelled "LOST BOYS!" at the top of our lungs and then dissolved in a heap. Good thing I was taping it because we were laughing so hysterically we fully missed the next scene.
Unfortunately, that was the high point of the eppy for me. Sure, I expected Jack to be free from the Chinese, clean shaven, and kicking ass in LA by minute 3 - but after that the rest of the premier was rather sluggish. Plus, here's a note to the writers: President Wayne is irritating. Make him evil, make him good, make him whatever you want but please people don't make him wishy-washy and insecure, because it’s really boring!
In other vampire news, there's actually talk of a sequel.
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January 12, 2007
Wikipedia Meme
Q: When would these two luminaries ever be mentioned in the same breadth?
A: When discussing the day of my birth, of course!
Got this from Hot Links & Gumbo ( via Cruft)
1. Go to Wikipedia (not to be confused with Wikia, although that's fun, too).
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. List any holidays
6. Post it.
According to the Wiki, April 21 is notable for being the day …
Romulus and Remus founded Rome (753 BC), women in France received the right to vote (1944) and about 100,000 students gathered in Tiananmen Square to commemorate the late Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang (1989).
2 interesting Births
Two notable Italians: Ludovico Carracci and Tony Danza
1 Death
Nina Simone, American singer and pianist (d. 2003)
If Wiki says these are holidays I guess I believe it... but none of them ever got me out of school.
* Bahá'í Faith - First day of the festival of Ridván.
* Roman Empire - the Parilia was held in honor of Pales.
* Rome - city birthday.
* Sunni Islam - Mawlid, Prophet Muhammad's birthday (2005).
* Tiradentes - Brazil.
* Grounation Day in Rastafari movement.
* Texas - San Jacinto Day
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Quiet contemplation to be had in West Hollywood
Others have already said it, so all I can do is just nod in agreement and offer a few links. This is a really nice show. The works are beautiful and the exhibition is totally manageable (who needs another eight room, totally overwhelming retrospective? Not me). Eight paintings are just enough to get you thinking and the work fits this odd space rather perfectly. Plus MOCA at Pac Design Ctr is FREE! Yay, FREE.
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January 06, 2007
And on the 12th day of Christmas...
I took down the tree.
While I was putting all or decorations away my cousin and I were trying to remember all the words to that crazy song. We spent 20 minutes arguing over if it was 11 or 12 freakin' lords a leapin'. Finally we called on wikipedia to settle it and discovered that we had both totally forgotten the pipers piping! After that I thought I'd put together a Post-Christmas post. I found this while searching for images. We have the same exact tree but my cousin's cat is far too nervous to help with the decorating :)
Well, it's Jan 6th. Christmas is now officially over, at least as far as my family is concerned. Today is Three Kings Day and when I was a kid this used to mean that today my cousin and I would get letters from our moms along with one final gift. The gift was usually something small, like a Whitman's sampler or a glass animal. I used to collect cows for some reason and well into her senior year of high school my cousin had a thing for unicorns so we got a lot of those (yeh, I know, we were dorky kids). In recent years my aunt pretty much only sends gift cards or a little spending money inscribed with "get yourself something silly" or "buy some ice cream". After we receive this final item the Christmas season, with all the stress, strain, arguments, over spending and sugarplum ferries, officially comes to a close. This year there was too much going on for my aunt to even send out Christmas cards, so I doubt we will get a Three Kings card but that's OK. I'm just happy we're all still here.
Hope everyone survived and even managed to have a good time with fam and friends this Christmas! I am trying to be good, to stay on my budget and remember all the things I already have in my life to be grateful for. Here's to a happy, healthy '07!
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January 04, 2007
Ruth Bernhard
Draped Torso, 1962
Ruth Bernhard, a legendary San Francisco photographer who captured sculptural images of the female form and inspired generations of artists, died Dec on 18th at her Pacific Heights apartment. She was 101.
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January 01, 2007
Happy New Year!
OK, I know it's been a while but I PROMISE I'll post more regularly in '07. Hope everyone had a great holiday season!
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