This is what you find when you are conceited and sign up for a Google alert of your own name (I like the "words associated" box):

http://labs.daylife.com/journalist/lea_blevins?js=1

My first Bay Area Review of the Day on Yelp! Woot!

http://www.yelp.com/san-ramon-ca

I heard this on the radio today and then saw it again online:

http://www.kptv.com/news/15270102/detail.html

A vegan strip club. Discuss.

Heh heh OK so I'm just bragging now. I've got a couple more articles under the "Livermore" entry on Encyclopedia.com.

In case you're interested: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Livermor.html

:)

Look up earthy in the encyclopedia and what do you see? A picture of me? Well, no. But Encyclopedia.com has TWO of my articles as examples of the word "earthy" (random, I know ( Read more... )

I seriously need to take the afternoon off work to deal with my shock over Heath Ledger dying. And if you think I'm joking, you'd be (kind of) wrong. I need to go watch Brokeback Mountain or 10 Things I Hate About You or something. Seriously. I can't concentrate on work now (not that I ever can). I'm very upset ( Read more... )

FACT: Whoever thought it was a good idea to put fruit (with *maybe* the exception of raisins) into cookies was wrong. And obviously hates fun. And dessert. And wants to ruin other people's fun by putting fruit in cookies ( Read more... )

http://popsugar.com/games/faceoff

Check out this game ... you guess which celebrity is the most famous.

Here's a tip:

Apparently Kevin Bacon is more famous than Nicky Hilton, but Carmen Electra is NOT more famous than Janet Jackson.

Now you know.

I just can't stand it when people tell me something and add "sweetie" or "dear" or "honey" or whatever. It's so patronizing because it's usually accompanied by some comment letting you know they think you're simple minded. Anyone else hate that ( Read more... )

Yes, I somehow managed to work the phrase "no holds barred" into my story today and it passed first edit without any questions. Sweet. I don't even know if it's the right context (you'd probably know, eh eva?), but it seemed appropriate to me. I tend to overuse that phrase ... kind of like "inconceiveable" in "The Princess Bride" when Inigo Montoya ( Read more... )