Sunday April 1, 4:51 pm ET NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Calvin Klein, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation (NYSE: PVH) and Calvin Klein Underwear, a division of The Warnaco Group Inc. (Nasdaq: WRNC), today announced that Echo Award® winning musician Dan Balan will be featured in the upcoming ( Read more... )

2005 Summatory Meme


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I have to admit to myself (& hopefully saying it in public will help), that I spend too much time online, much of it reading & commenting on my friends’ LJ entries. Therefore, I’m going to limit my LJ exposure to no more than 2x/week. Today, Tuesday, is one of my tokens used.

My house is ( Read more... )

I just found out why Dan & Radu were blindfolded. They had made an appearance on some French morning TV show (apparently, this perky/insipid genre is known the world over), and they were participating in a food quiz. They had to taste a food, guess what it was & where it came from.

I hope this stunt increased record sales amongst the 45+ Hausfrau ( Read more... )

A recent comment/post by deadspeaker prompts this... Just so you know you’re not alone.

Before I knew what fandom was (and this was eons ago, in the late '70s), I was obsessed with/mentally fanficking (sp!) the following:

Age 9: Archie comics, The Man From Atlantis/Patrick Duffy. I looooovvvvvveeeed Patrick Duffy, but only in a speedo. Never never in a ( Read more... )

By accident, I stumbled across the prefix balan/o in The Language of Medicine. My curiosity piqued, I cracked open my Stedman's Medical Dictionary, and was faced with an awful truth. The following is a step-by-step narrative of what I found:

balan-, SEE balano-

balano-, balan-. Glans penis. [G. balanos, acorn, glans]

balanic (I can't type the ( Read more... )