I went on a "date" with my older daughter today (age 7). Here is what we did.

• Got a Decaf Nonfat Misto and a kids' hot chocolate in the Starbucks nearest the Sutter/Stockton Garage. By her own words, she hoovered it. Hers was gone before I had the fake sugar stirred into mine.
• Went up and down the streets of Chinatown, mostly looking, but a little ( Read more... )

I have lost my DVD of "All That Jazz" somewhere in the house. I never loan this one (as if anyone but me wants to watch this movie anyway). I think I remember watching it when Roy Scheider passed away, and another time when I was too sick to get out of bed (wishing, the entire time, of course, that I could dance even a single step ( Read more... )

Whenever there is a movie in which the enemy/alien intruder can communicate with a geostationary defense satellite (somehow) and through that ultra-secure gateway access the "primary mainframe" and retrieve "all our vital secrets" in less time than it takes to order a quarter pounder with cheese, I ask myself two questions ( Read more... )

Went to the Guggenheim today, and I'm sure it says something about me that I like the building more than most of the art inside. Then, in search of a coffee and croissant place recommended by a very nice museum guard, I happened quite by accident upon the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum. I was intrigued... and then the fact that they were having and ( Read more... )

I arrived in NYC earlier this evening, and my hotel has a Dim Sum restaurant and a Starbucks on the first floor. Oh, and when I turned on the TV, a Clive Owen movie was just starting.

Somebody up there likes me.

Or perhaps, better, would be 'Reading List: Odd ( Read more... )

Your result for Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz...
You Are a Marilyn!


( Read more... )

There is a new show on TV. I liked the time-travel-y premise, so I'm giving it a try. It's set in New York City. In 1973. And once or twice per episode, they show us CGI of the World Trade Center, to hit home how we're not in Kansas any more ( Read more... )

Post 10 things that are going right in your life right now. I don’t care how small. ANYTHING. Things that make you happy. Things that make you smile.

In no particular order:

1. On my cell phone, I have a picture of my favorite actor giving me a kiss.
2. I’ve been knitting a lot lately (after having quit cold turkey about a year ago), and it’s keeping me ( Read more... )

Got nothing against Gina Gershon. Drea De Matteo looks like she'd be a fun lunch date, especially if cocktails were involved. Lori Petty? Always interesting to watch. But I just invested far too long in a movie called "Prey for Rock and Roll", in which Ms. Gershon was apparently channeling her inner Joan Jett (she wishes) and the girl-on-girl ( Read more... )