This photo just did :) Auntie Taye thanks Jennii for the fact that she is now grinning like an idiot. From the USC-Ohio State football game last weekend:


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As I trek across the SH- and HMAS-free desert, a small oasis. It's been way too long since we had an old-fashioned picspam.

This first photo, because I found it the other day and I think it's fabulous:

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Hi, y'all.

I'm leaving for the airport in a few hours to spend a few days with my family and give a paper at this conference, and I wasn't going to post until I got back. However, I have stumbled upon something AMAZING.


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Sometimes Monday feels like Monday, even when you don't have a normal job.

I'm so disgusted with my students that I don't want to talk about them, so I'll talk about my extended weekend instead, and then we'll have some Helen. So the game plan goes me, random blah blah blah, Helen. Got it?

Thursday night was the annual Guthrie Awards Dinner for the ( Read more... )

Lucinda Williams was AMAZING Friday night. We were almost as far away from the stage as you can get -- we were in the rear mezzanine and there were literally three or four rows behind us -- but luckily the sound at Radio City is fantastic (although I really wish I'd had binoculars or opera glasses. She had on what looked like adorable red shoes and ( Read more... )

Why have I not seen these amazingly adorable photos before? Have I been living under a rock? In a cave? In some other subterranean region? This is clearly unacceptable.

As if she weren't already too much to handle on her own, here's La Mirren brightening the days of hospitalized children.


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Cross your fingers for me. I contacted the British Film Institute today, and am waiting to hear back about what Helen-ness they have in their holdings.

Apparently I have something in common with the Dame: I thought I was the most phone-phobic person going, but she may be giving me a run for my money. It's not that I dislike talking on the phone; I ( Read more... )

We've almost reached the 48-hours-after mark, and I'm still trying to (a) catch my breath and (b) just catch up, period. Sunday ended up being so crazy and weirdly timed that I almost feel like I missed everything. For example: I missed Helen on the red carpet because (a) I was walking to my Muckle's apartment through a snow flurry and (b) my mom ( Read more... )

Two days until the Oscars! I will have my fries at the ready. And my paper bag (for hyperventilation) and my champagne.

I really am not enamored of my new header, but I felt like I had to do something in honor of the occasion, and I had about five minutes. "Having about five minutes" has basically been the story of my week, so I'm sorry I haven't ( Read more... )