So I was at Party City the other night looking for elbow-length satin, black gloves to complete my Halloween costume of Holly Golightly, as played by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's. The atmosphere at the store was like a carnival, obscenely crowded. The majority of the commotion was produced by the adults. The few poor children there ( Read more... )

I’m one of those rare women who loves cars. No, not like that. You won’t see me bent under the hood, covered in grease. Please. Nor do I actually know very much about the technical aspects, though I am genuinely interested in learning more. I love cars for their aesthetic value and ability to perform. For the way they feel as I drive - though ( Read more... )

I don’t meet too many people who are ambivalent about the science-fiction television series Stargate SG-1 - either you like it or you don’t. And I’ve loved it from the moment it first aired. In those days, I watched it primarily on account of my infatuation with MacGuyver, that is Richard Dean Anderson. Ironically, I wasn’t even too keen on ( Read more... )

Gone are the days when I used to make lame excuses at dinner or drinks about needing to leave. In reality, I was rushing home to my basement enclave to watch the next episode of “Battlestar Galactica.” Work-related travel disrupted my ability to follow television over the past two years. I tragically stopped watching “Bones” and missed a few ( Read more... )

I haven’t made up my mind about Boston yet. Maybe it’s a city that needs to grow on me. It’s pretty when it’s sunny and deceptively European. But it only looks European-it’s very American. And I get lost everywhere I go. The signs are terrible, the maps are barely manageable, and the locals’ directions spotty and uncertain at best. People are ( Read more... )

The year is 2107 A.D ( Read more... )

So b/c You Tube is the best thing ever, I was on it looking at some Duran Duran music videos. It's quite interesting to me that their video for a song called "Girls on Film" back in the early 80s was the first video ever to be banned by MTV (and the BBC) b/c of full frontal nudity ( Read more... )

Ten years is a good run. In fact, it's the best run. Stargate SG-1 is the longest-running science fiction series in television history ( Read more... )

Anggun has been singing for a long time, but most of us have never heard of her. I did not until Sthemingway introduced me to her a few years ago. She recorded in Indonesian in her early career and was a success in her home country (and continues to be) before moving to France. Her first 2 studio albums are nice. I love them in French. (They fare ( Read more... )

I haven't watched the Grammy's for years and was surprisingly entertained by most of last night's performance-heavy show. The 3.5 hours seemed to pass quickly. Initially, I was only to watch to see it my man Justin Timberlake. Ok, my other man too- Sting. Who would miss The Police reunited for the first time after all these years? I enjoyed it all ( Read more... )