It's an annual event: I play Earth, Wind & Fire's That's The Way of the World and cha-cha with my husband on New Year's Eve. It's happened for ten years in a row, and I'm not one to monkey with tradition. Especially a tradition I invented ( Read more... )

This is another one that made me wistful, wishing I could send it along to Matt Titus...

It was a gorgeous, modern-vintage white Corvette with the license plate "KRNL PNC".

Too kewl.

Is anyone doing NaNo this year? I didn't even try last year... given that I've written over 143,355 words since mid-June, I'm probably going to go for it.

And if you do this, how do you find out about local NaNo events?

...when your kids' favorite new game is to play Starbucks at home with their red plastic cash register ( Read more... )

My second-favorite movie, Notorious, is on right now, and even though I have the rare opportunity to start getting ready to go on a birthday party date with my handsome husband, despite the babysitter cancelling, I would halfway rather sit here and watch Mr. Devlin (what a great character name) and Miss Huberman commit passionate foreplay for the ( Read more... )

I might get to see Joan Jett tonight.

Everyone, stop what you're doing and cross your fingers on my behalf. I'm completely and totally serious: I need all the help I can get.

Which is what goes through my head every time I see Gene Kelly dance ( Read more... )

Just watched it.

Then rewound it and watched it right over again.

I may pour myself another Jameson's and watch it for a third time.

Now why can't I fucking write like that???

My husband is in Anchorage, Alaska today, on business. He has 6 meetings scheduled, and unfortunately, got turned around while driving in the downtown area on his way to appointment #3 ( Read more... )

"That's enough of the Chee-tos, eat your sandwich!!!"

"Please sit nicely on your chair."

"Feet do not belong on the table. Absolutely unacceptable."

And, my mother's old standby: "Were you raised in a barn???"

Why is this remotely interesting??? Because all of this is happening on autopilot, whilst, in the nether regions of my brain, I'm being ( Read more... )