I just heard some jerk in New England who was engaged to Elizabeth Taylor for about a year back in 1949 is auctioning her love letters to him. Meanwhile, the letter that Richard Burton wrote to her before his death in 1984 was buried with her per her request. The class score according to la_peregrina: Taylor 1, Fish who Got Away 0.

Once were paper walls.
Once torn, easily replaced.
But braziers could tip.
Though walls may now be stronger,
the earth will have the last word.

One way of celebrating Fat Tuesday.  Pancake Day is Irish in origin.  I wonder if that is why the IHOP on Route 4 on the border between Fair Lawn and Paramus always has a special on Tuesday nights?  No other IHOP nearby has specials on that particular night of the week.  I know there's a German word that translates to Doughnut Day, too.  They get ( Read more... )

I've just suggested a question for the Writer's Block.  It will be interesting to see what the answers will be.  This post contains a related question.  If you know what kopi luak (or kopi lewak) is, you know where it comes from.  My question is:  Whose idea was it to harvest this particular Southeast Asian coffee bean?  I mean, how did someone ( Read more... )

I had seen the Morgan Freeman/Jack Nicholson movie on TV with my cousin not too long ago.  I'm far enough along that I could see The Bucket List with minimal eye leakage and sniffles, and not spectacular dam failure, but the conversation the Carter Chambers character (Freeman) has with the Edward Cole character (Nicholson) at the top of one of the ( Read more... )

I should have listed him as a guilty pleasure in my Seven Deadly Sins Meme list.  But I think I'll be walking away from him for a fair while.

I am warning diablu   and jducoeur and britgeekgrrl  right now to just walk away from this entry.  Stop reading and continue to the next post on your screen.  Nothing to see here.  If you three are Stephen King fans, stay away from ( Read more... )

Little victories are often the nicest.  I was changing wallets.  The old one was falling apart, so it was the thing to do.  I found a Borders gift card I had forgotten about.  I don't even remember who gave it to me, though it  may well have been the Christmas gift from the Holiday Party at Bender from 2008!  Since the Borders at Garden State Plaza ( Read more... )

( The OJ Prison Story and One Woman's Reaction )