tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308176072024-03-13T08:28:17.543-07:00RANDOM YAMMERINGSHere is where I shall ramble on about whatever triviality pops abitrarily into my noggin. Come here when jonesing for inconsequential, stream-of-consciousness drivel.Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.comBlogger971125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-80721301976572108502014-06-01T23:05:00.001-07:002014-06-01T23:05:13.759-07:00artsyAdditions to my running "artists of note" note on my phone [since I 1st posted about the list <a href="http://yammeron.blogspot.com/2014/01/arts-culture-blatherings.html" target="_blank">back in January</a>] I warn ya, there is a shit ton ....<br />
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1.Paul-Gustave Fischer<br />
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2. Brynolf Wennerberg<br />
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I do dig this guy's style, but am not wild about how every other painting of his features spike-helmeted German soldiers [check it--do a Google image search fer yourself] He was very prolific cranking out WWI propaganda cards. He surely got the message out there that joining up with the German army was the most surefire of surefire ways to get laid.<br />
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3.Albert Herter<br />
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4..William McGregor Paxton<br />
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5. Arthur Hacker</div>
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6.Henri de Braekleer<br />
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7.Louis Anquetin<br />
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8.Theo vanRysselnerghe<br />
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9 & 9.5 JC Leyendecker & F X Leyendecker<br />
Kinda interesting (IMHO) that there were 2 such talented illustrators in the same family. <br />
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JC was older, and more famous<br />
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FX was the younger bro</div>
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10.Alan E Cober<br />
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11.Dink Siegel<br />
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12. Mary Greene Blumenschein<br />
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13. Joseph Farrelly<br />
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14.Naiad & Walter Einsel<br />
husband & wife illustration team. Very distinctive style<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a SAD tableau we're witnessing here....she loves him...he only loves cheese. I do feel for the poor lass, and yet, I can't say as I blame him. It is CHEESE, after all. </td></tr>
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15. James McMullen<br />
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16. Aurelius Battaglia<br />
very excellent , very prolific illustrator. A lot of classic children's books to his credit. . .<br />
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17.Antonio Lopez<br />
too cool..<br />
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18.Lowell Hess<br />
incredible career, this guy. You can scope out <a href="http://lowellhess.com/" target="_blank">his website</a> to get 1/2 an idea...<br />
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19.George Stavrinos<br />
Such an 80s vibe to his work. Therefore, I'm in the right mood lately to appreciate it [if you read my itemized iTunes buys in my last post, you <em>know..</em>)<br />
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20.Walter Everett<br />
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21. Dean Cornwell<br />
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22. Dick Ellescas<br />
this guy should have more of an internet presence than he does. Awesome work...<br />
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23.Mark English<br />
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24. Bernie Fuchs<br />
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25.Konstantin Somov<br />
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26.Albert Von Keller<br />
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27. Julian Allen<br />
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28. Tom Adams<br />
I have an affinity for tripptastic paperback covers from the 60s/70s/early 80s. Tom Adams did these PLUS his covers were often for Agatha Christie stories (which I also dig very much)<br />
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29.Doug Johnson<br />
His work has such a . . .<em>roundness </em>to it.<br />
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30. Vilmos Aba-Novak<br />
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33.Wilhelm Schulz<br />
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34. Irene Zimmerman<br />
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35. Eduard Thony<br />
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36. Marianne Stokes<br />
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37. Albert Andre<br />
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38. Rowland Wilson<br />
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39. Paul Hey<br />
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40. John Berkey<br />
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you might find this Berkey illustration more iconic--<br />
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but I have a soft spot for King Kong '76. I didn't get to see it back in the theaters back in the day, but I did have the ViewMaster reel and it was my utter FAAAAVE!!<br />
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Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-63030007682039855202014-05-26T09:04:00.004-07:002014-05-26T09:18:45.095-07:00Obsesh du jourWe're going with a very loosey goosey interpretation of "du jour" here, the obsessions I'm about to blather on a bit about are enthralling me <em>as of late</em>, not just today. And--zoinks-- for our purposes here, "as of late" can apply to anything since I last posted...WAY THE HELL BACK IN JANUARY. Sorry, sorry,sorry!! At least you can't say I've not posted all year, eh?<br />
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--Boob Tubage--<br />
1. I recently discovered The Mindy Project and adore it. The Season 2 finale was just dreamy. Shameless rom-com style wish fullfillment. Chris Messina is gorg. And I kinda adore Mindy Kaling. She's this odd hybrid of girly +smart and I dig that she's not, like, a stick insect. Bonus that she's a 2001 graduate of Dartmouth College. She was matriculating in Hanover at the same time I was occasionally boozin' in Hanover. WOW, right? Makes me feel like we're connected...a bit.<br />
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2. Last Comic Standing is back and I am STOKED!! I just assumed because I loved that reality show that it wasn't very popular. I tuned into the Season Premier and my standout fave comic was Jasper Redd [aaaand that right there is probably a jinx for the poor fellah. Sorry Jasper!!]<br />
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3. Stumbled onto this 2008 BBC show called Ashes to Ashes and became quite addicted. It's a fantasy cop show set in London of the early 80s. I just love that era...and the show captures that whole vibe very well. I went digging on the BBC website and they very helpfully list all the songs used in every episode in all three seasons. I used that listing to determine some iTunes must-buys. Aside from enjoying the retro-fix, I'm also strangely smitten with Philip Glenister. It's a great illustration of how xenocentric I am. If Philip Glenister looked the same and did the same things and said the same things but was from...OHIO, I would not give him a second glance. But his charisma is very much tied up in his gritty Britty manner.<br />
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Am gonna list off all my latest acquisitions. The * denotes songs I picked off of the Ashes to Ashes playlists...which I found so nifty because it's a BBC show, so it's not <em>quite</em> the 80s nostalgia I'm used to. It includes a lot of songs that are terrif, but just didn't quite make it in the US.<br />
1.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFnA-8H-5lo" target="_blank">Don't Swallow the Cap</a> [the National]<br />
2. Bloodbuzz Ohio [the National] -Matt Berninger's baritone is HOT...a fact you especially notice if you listen to this w/ headphones. Although when you watch the video here, you can see that Matt Berninger looks like a history teacher.<br />
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3. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAsTlnjvetI" target="_blank">Cough Syrup</a> [Young the Giant]<br />
4. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwK7ggA3-bU" target="_blank">One More Night</a> [Maroon 5]<br />
5. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU8B4XDI3Uw" target="_blank">Love Somebody</a> [Maroon 5]<br />
6. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKgSs0MQ270" target="_blank">Virgin</a> [Manchester Orchestra]<br />
7.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CydL91xZak" target="_blank">Crooked Teeth</a> [Death Cab for Cutie]<br />
8. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkXh4kRTBVk" target="_blank">Rock Creek Park</a> [The Blackbyrds] --Did the great Tone Loc sample this? Methinks so...<br />
9, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TffpkE2GU4" target="_blank">The Wire</a> [Haim] --I don't think Haim actually copied anybody, but the opening of this song, most definitely puts me in a "Heartache Tonight" frame of mind. Wonder if The Eagles are in agreement on that ...and does it piss them off?<br />
10. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab9176Srb5Y" target="_blank">Berzerk </a>[Eminem]-- I love Eminem...he has such a distinctive voice and it makes me chortle. The "bow chicka WOW WOW..." part here absolutely <em>makes </em>this song!<br />
11.Banquet [Bloc Party] Madly LOVE this song.<br />
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12. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpadYhXHgwA" target="_blank">Jump into the Fog</a> [the Wombats]<br />
13. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX1PwkgwsG0" target="_blank">The Killing Moon</a> [Echo & the Bunnymen] <br />
14.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl-4Ns7ql8E" target="_blank">Ready to Start</a> [Arcade Fire]<br />
15. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAOxCqSxRD0" target="_blank">Wicked Game</a> [Chris Isaak] --Chris Isaak is hot.But..holy shite..he's waay older than I thought he was (Google it!!) Oh, heey, 'memba when he had his own show?<br />
16. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHuebHTD-lY" target="_blank">Black & Gold</a> [Sam Sparro]<br />
17. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQBttKoetqo" target="_blank">Paranoid</a> [Black Sabbath]<br />
18 Crimewave [Crystal Castles] --At the time of acquisition, I was OBSESSED with this song. I would put it on repeat and not listen to anything else. The fact that I still do like this song is a testament to how very much I like it.<br />
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19. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LfmGZBuN78" target="_blank">Heavy Bells</a> [J Roddy Walston & the Business]-- I heard this on the radio one morning and it kinda intrigued me and rocked hard and I impulse-bought it that same day. Now I kinda hate it. It's this Southern Rock revival and the damned annoying thing about it is that, apart from the two word title, you can't understand a goddamn word of the song. It truly sounds like a whole other language.<br />
20. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz0Qb5ws98k" target="_blank">L.E.S. Artistes</a> [Santigold] --I like belting this one out. <br />
21. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX3k_QDnzHE" target="_blank">Midnight City</a> [M83]<br />
22. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixw_bLVUL34" target="_blank">Tear You Apart</a> [She Wants Revenge]<br />
23. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F90Cw4l-8NY" target="_blank">Pompeii </a>[Bastille]<br />
24. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdpAop7gp0w" target="_blank">Keep Your Hands to Yourself</a> [ Georgia Satellites] -- I love this song...but I gotta say, it peaks at the opening line<br />
25.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz2GVlQkn4Q" target="_blank">Come With Me Now</a> [Kongos] accordian rock. That's dope.<br />
26. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4zluA60hjs" target="_blank">Far From Any Road</a> [The Handsome Family ]-- this is the song that they used for the opening creds of True Detective<br />
27. Breezeblocks [ Alt-J]--Love this one. And the spazzy refrain at the end {Pleasedon'tgo! I'll eat you whole! Iloveyouso, Iloveyouso!!} is the bestest<br />
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28. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGBLlFMn9Xc" target="_blank">The Walker</a> [Fitz & the Tantrums]<br />
29. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RsfGJsax9E" target="_blank">Blind</a> [Hercules & the Love Affair]--another song that I impulse-bought after being slightly intrigued. I don't listen to it much though. I think if I was in a strobe-lit space and on ecstasy, I'd really groove on this though.<br />
30.Lights & Music [Cut Copy] Neauvo 80s...LOOOVE!!<br />
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31. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q-S1U5w7fA" target="_blank">Shooting Stars</a> [Bag Raiders] the synth riff in this falls <em>just</em> short of annoying and winds up making the song for me.<br />
32.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FktYzdDJdqQ" target="_blank">Evil </a>[Interpol]- I like this guy's distinctive voice. I may have to scrounge up some more Interpol tracks<br />
33.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU" target="_blank">Turn Down for What</a> [DJ Snake & Li'l Jon] --Li'l Jon will never fail to make me grin. In fact, I wich Li'l Jon had made an appearance in that music video . OMFG that video. It is kinda funny and sorta horrifying... simultaneously. It is for sure memorable!! (follow the provided link to scope it out...IF YOU DARE)<br />
*34. Ashes to Ashes [David Bowie]--I have always loved Bowie, this is my fave Bowie right now.<br />
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*35.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DuCIGvsbMA" target="_blank">Vienna</a> [Ultravox]-- hellah atmospheric!!<br />
*36.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVcUMloRgu0" target="_blank">Police On My Back</a> [The Clash]<br />
*37. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENJBgGhqx1Q" target="_blank">Geno</a> [Dexy's Midnight Runners]--and YOU thought they only did "Come On Eileen" (yeah, me too!) this is one of the 80s tunes I'm digging lately that is heavy on tha horns<br />
*38.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg2np37JNEg" target="_blank">No More Heroes</a> [the Stranglers]<br />
*39. Over You [Roxy Music]-- my current fave<br />
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*40.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az_GCJnXAI0" target="_blank">This Is Not a Love Song</a> [Public Image Ltd]--Reeeally diggin' this. I need to scope out the rest of the Public Image Ltd oeuvre. I tend to quite like singing that makes me feel like my atonal, outta tune singing is up to task<br />
*41. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-P2qL3qkzk" target="_blank">Money</a> [the Flying Lizards]<br />
*42. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omYKI8RJaIg" target="_blank">Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag</a> [Pigbag]-- I am loving this song and lately it's my go to jam for unpacking boxes in the stock room, and doing weird tribal botched twerking whilest unpacking. Yes,<em> </em>I am working alone back there. What kinda maniac do ya think I am??<br />
*43. Club Country [the Associates]--I'd never heard this one previously, I wonder if it charted at all in the States?<br />
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*44.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hEn_rEDzp0" target="_blank">Kings of the Wild Frontier</a> [Adam Ant]<br />
*45. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XJ2GiR6Bo" target="_blank">Enola Gay</a> [Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark]<br />
*46. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7R7q1lSZfs" target="_blank">Golden Brown</a> [the Stranglers]--a very very genteel sounding here for a band called "The Stranglers"<br />
*47. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9EbR0ckb40" target="_blank">Let's Stick Together</a> [Roxy Music]<br />
*48. It Ain't What You Do [Funboy Three] I swear, on iTunes, I could not find the version featuring Bananarama, but onYouTube, that's all I could find. I think I like it slightly better *with* Bananarana. I'mma hafta do another sweep of iTunes<br />
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*49.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B2a6l6wM2k" target="_blank">Stand & Deliver</a> [Adam Ant]<br />
*50. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGrnEc_3mYo" target="_blank">2-4-6-8 Motorway</a> [Tom Robinson Band]--this song is my introduction to this band. And solely judging from this, I reckon...if you came up in the UK, with no access to a J Geils Band, THIS was your J Geils Band<br />
*51. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjYgLIicqus" target="_blank">Dancing in the City</a> [Marshall Hain]--she has such a cool voice. Yes "she" as Marshall Hain is a band name, not a singular dude name<br />
*52. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM6j14DDtGI" target="_blank">The Cutter</a> [Echo & the Bunnymen]<br />
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chips & salsa at Chilis-- this is all I want to eat for lunch lately. Not just a general meal of chips y salsa, but SPECIFICALLY the chips & salsa they have at Chili's. I have not found their match *anywhere* The chips are perfect-- thin & salty. And the salsa is the best too. Love, looove, LOVE!! I work right across the street from a Chili's so I <em>could</em> have Chili's chips & salsa for lunch daily without too much hassle. But I feel like I oughtta have, like, diversity in my diet, so I manage to limit myself to 1 chips & salsa lunch every other week.<br />
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ZOTZ- I did a lot of Easter basket shopping for my nieces& neph at Party City and they have all these different varieties of 15 pcs for $1 candy. I intended to make everything absolutely even between the 4 baskets, but I effed up my counting and got 23 pcs of Zotz. So I made the 3pc surplus my own. "YUM" is not quite the exclamation of delight that works here, but Zotz certainly are delightful. The trouble with being addicted to Zotz is that they,re a smidge obscure, not readily available at Kmart or the local convenience store. The only place I have been able to buy them locally [you could, of course, get them online...but I feel like if I go online to seek out a particular candy , that renders my addiction OFFICIAL] is Party City. And when I step into Party City, I am very, VERY prone to frittering $$ away on tchotchkes. Like clackers. I really did buy clackers the other day.<br />
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And a red plastic pirate eyepatch. I'm not shitting you. I bought that.Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-54058892057510311072014-01-13T19:23:00.001-08:002014-01-13T19:23:08.864-08:00ARTS & CULTURE BLATHERINGSSUBSECTION UNO: Awesome Things I Have Streamed on Netflix Lately-<br />
1.<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1988386/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries</a>. I am, historically, a sucker for Brit period mystery shows and this is even better! It's an *Australian* period mystery ...set in the 20s. What that all equates to is gorg. costumes and men with ridiculously hot accents. Really. It's not a buffoonish Crocodile Dundee sort of accent , it's like a posh Aussie dialect. Very nice. <br />
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I got so addicted to Series 1 on Netflix, that I could not be patient for Series 2 (which ran Sept-Nov 2013 on Australian TV) to come to Netflix (as it's likely to..<i>eventually</i>) I instead resorted to the seedy stream-whatever-you-want-and-don't-pay-for-cable sites of the internet. OK, "seedy" is maybe overstating it a bit, I mean it's not the black underworld internet with the bitcoins and the whatnot. I <i>did</i> Google my way there. But you can get the PC pox pretty easily on such sites.<br />
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2.<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092843/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2" target="_blank"> The Dead.</a> Pretty much nothing happens in this 1987 film, but I found it oddly riveting. Lovely . Poetic.<br />
3.<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0772157/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank">Broken English.</a> Parker Posey does a brilliant acting job in this flick. She really made me feel for her.<br />
4.<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1673697/?ref_=nm_knf_i4" target="_blank">The Sapphires</a>. Pretty formulaic feel-good film that does its job nicely. Based on a true story...very <i>loosely</i> so, I suspect. I'll be honest: the main draw for me here is Chris O'Dowd. That man is superhumanly adorable. I would watch him <span style="font-size: x-small;"><strike>read the phone book </strike></span>knit and hum showtunes for days.[there needs to be a new expression. I have not Clearly, hit upon it here. Help?]<br />
5. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1625724/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank">Love /Hate</a> Here's a good illustration of how I'm often very xenocentric in my tastes. My sister is just getting into Sons of Anarchy and is raving about it like crazy. "Do you watch Sons of Anarchy? You gotta watch Sons of Anarchy!!!! SOOO GOOD" (this is not verbatim what she sez, but purdy damn close) And I say "Hmm. Yeah." (verbatim) while my internal response to this is "Ugh. Biker gangs. Tacky trashy trashbags. They like the Tazmanian Devil in their decor...leather vests....ewww . No thanks" (this is not verbatim what I think..but purdy damn close) Then I stumble on to Love /Hate on Netflix. Also drug-peddling thugs. No bikes though. Oh, but they're in <i>Ireland. </i>And so I'm all about it.<br />
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6. <a href="http://populaire./">Populaire.</a> I started out this French rom-com thinking "This Romain Duris has a gigantic forehead. I don't know how I'm going to immerse in this story <i>now</i>" (I know, pretty superficial qualms) But the movie's charms won me over. Granted it was probaby superficialities that won me over too...a lot of Duris being hellah sensitive, speaking lotsa <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23.390625px;">Français and wearing nice suits and the forehead wasn't too egregious after all.</span><br />
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SUBSECTION B: Pages.<br />
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I am not the prolific reader I once was. I blame the g-damn internet. But I do go through spurts where my book-consumption spikes. I think I'm commencing one of those phases now. One of my friends I worked with quit, put in her last day on 1/6. This is going to sound sorta rotten but...I really missed solo lunch. I used to read through my lunch everyday, and eat alone. Which , objectively, it doesn't sound so hot. But it's what I liked!! And then Roxanne came, and maybe for her first year, we weren't tight, but then when we got to be friends...and....(ok, this is the part where I'm going to start sounding douchey) ..she definitely exerted more clinginess in the friendship than did I. It's not like we just <i>happened </i> to lunch together daily...it was like a SET THING. Oftentimes I just wanted to go ahead and lunch solo without a word but I knew she would've been inordinately hurt about it. I do think most people might be miffed about it (and then shake it off) but she is...a sensitive one. I knew she woulda been downright HURT and it would've turned into like a BFD. Oh, there most definitely would've been sulking. So yes, sometimes I made up fake errands, OK?<br />
Oh hey...I have digressed a skoach. Was just saying that now that I'm lunching by myself again (which OMFG I <u>MISSED</u>) I've started reading more. Now, I do have a little struggle at lunch time, deciding--do I read some more of the current book OR do I go the less noggin-nourishing route and diddle with my phone? But that debate is less irritating than being nearly contractually bound to lunch with someone who pretty much always wants to kvetch about work and their coworkers. And despite being 3/4 self-centered bitch, I do a good impression of sympathetic ear...whilest internally I holler "GODDAMNIT, I'M HERE WITH YOU IN THE 8TH CIRCLE OF HELL, COULD YOU STOP MAKING ME DWELL ON IT????"<br />
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So, hands down, the best book I've read lately is "Me Before You" by JoJo Moyes. Certainly a reader's delight in a book is linked to their rate of consumption...like scientifically, empirically, mathe-fucking-matically, correspondent youknowwhatimeanVern? An equation could be crafted. (but ain't nobody got time fo' that shite!!) I had an evening, where I was fully intending to diddle with my phone, but said phone needed to be left alone to charge for a spell. So, I thought...I'll pick up that JoJo Moyes book that I was so drawn to at Target, and I'll read a chap or 2 of that before I commence playing Disco Bees. OK....FF to 200 pages later when I realize: I'm not putting this book down until I'm done reading the whole dang thang. I read it all, staying up until 4 am to do so (okay, technically, my finish time was 3:50am..but then ten minutes was taken to craft my FB post (replete with linkage) gushing about what a cathartic read it was. Oh yeah-- I bawled my fool head off for the entire last third of the book.<br />
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SUBSECT DU TRES: I am trying to learn French. I was peeking at the App store because of a damned App update push notification (I am, by the by, pretty gawddamned attentive to my push notifications. I need me some push notifications pushing me to pay my stupid bills!!) And saw a "BEST FREE APPS OF 2013" and so I hastened to scope it out as that is waaaay more pressing than any work I might've been dabbling in at work. And that is how I was led to download DuoLingo. I am trying to learn French and I am trying to be diligent. Jury's still out on whether or not it gets my *officical* recommendation...<br />
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SUBSECTION THE 4th: Every Artist Name I Have Saved On My Phone + Visual Aides<br />
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I am always scouring the interwebs for art I dig. I have quite a lot of variety in my faves--there's fine art, classic book illustration, pop art, mid-century illustration... oftentimes I save a pic to my computer or phone if it really seizes my interest. Yet if I did that with *everything* I dig, I would run out of RAM (or is it ROM? Ugh! whatevs..) So I have on my phone , in the notes, a running list of artist names so that I remember that I like them and will revisit. There are some big name omissions: Norman Rockwell, or Maxfield Parrish, or John Waterhouse, or Jesse Willcox Smith, Peter Max, Alphonse Mucha ...all these being omitted just because they are such big names I could never forget them or I can't forget them 'cause I've liked them since forever.<br />
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1.Albert Morrow<br />
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2. Gifford Beal<br />
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3.Willard Leroy Metcalf<br />
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4.Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida<br />
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5.Mario Labocetta<br />
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7.Bob Pepper<br />
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8.John Alcorn<br />
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9.Leo & Diane Dillon<br />
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11.Helen M Turner<br />
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12.Henry la Thangue<br />
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13,Ilia Repin<br />
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14.Robert Lewis Reid<br />
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15.Frank W Benson<br />
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16Albert Moulton Foweraker<br />
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17J Alden Weir<br />
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18. George Gardener Symons<br />
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19.Thomas Wilmer Dewing<br />
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20.Frederick Childe Hassam<br />
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21.John Lavery<br />
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22.Wladyslaw Benda<br />
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23.Ludwig Hohlwein--<br />
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lovely stuff<br />
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too damn bad he was a Nazi (probably)<br />
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24. Fred Taylor<br />
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Gorgeous!<br />
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25.Sir William Orpen<br />
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26. Maximillian Liebenwein<br />
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27. Nicole Claveloux<br />
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28.Herbert Paus<br />
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29.Rene Gruau<br />
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30. Sydney Long<br />
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31. Carl Moll<br />
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Y'see, it's a damn good thing I keep the list so I can revisit and study. As I typed all the names out (I inserted pics later) I could only call to mind images of the work of about 10 of 'em. I need to bone up...Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-26884334591144394542013-06-05T17:38:00.001-07:002013-06-05T17:40:12.194-07:00library timeAm reporting live from my lovely local public library. It most definitely IS lovely, and it's a good time for me to do something so frugally-minded as utilize my library membership (spent last weekend in NYC. those adventures+ paying my June rent= me in the red!!)
If you wish to emulate me and grace your local library with your presence--BE FOREWARNED! It is not just a haven for poor students. I'd say the mix here is about 50% student/10% I can't quite tag / 40% sketchy vagrants. A guy from the 40% was sitting 3 or 4 armchairs down from me (gone now, or I'd not even dare to type about him!) and he kept sputtering at his keyboard-- "Fuckers!!" he'd say. And he kept saying "Bitch. You bitch" I dunno WHAT the cluck was going on over there, either the internet was vexing him mightily or he had a whole inbox full o' baaaad news. The silver-lining I'd hoped for was that he'd deter burglars from the general vicinity, thereby safeguarding my laptop when I had to abandon it a few times on account of diarrhea. Like, truly, I don't like to use the bathroom when I'm at the library. No disrespect to the facilities...it's just this bourgeois paranoia of mine that someone is going to steal my stuff. If I kinda gotta urinate, I *will* suppress. I am quite adept at being a pee camel when necessary. I thought tonight I was going to have a shart incident...so I tucked my iPhone into my bra, tucked my laptop into my bag (and left it there to the side of my chair, 3 chairs down from the profanity grumbler)and took my car key. I guess the iPhone move was smart, but prob my laptop is more steal-worthy than mydecrepit '02 Camry. <br />
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Oh, <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">YOU'RE VERY WELCOME</span> (for the massive TMI).<br />
I must now give you something entirely new to ponder (for I would hate for us to part on so scatalogical a note!) I am going to embed below two delightful summer jam duets that are very<br />
closely linked in my mind .. .I always associate one with the otha. I put it to YOU to judge which is *more* delightful. In other words, if Highlander-style "THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE" rules applied here, which would you have be the surviving <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">delightful summer jam duet??? Hollah back....lemme know!!!</span><br />
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That article had a link (to refer you to more facts on mimolette) to the website of Murray's Cheese Shop. I was all- <i>now *where* have I heard of this establishment before???</i> And it wasn't through any hardcore cheese shopping, because for a self-professed fromage fiend, I have little-to-nil dealings with specialty cheesemongers. I know--deplorable. I'd actually heard of 'em in a Beastie Boys song. The web site (go scope it out <a href="http://www.murrayscheese.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a> ) inordinately fascinated me. Much more to learn there then in the skimpy mimolette article. I haven't been this thrilled by a comestibles database since I discovered the TERRIFIC <a href="http://www.orangepippin.com/" target="_blank">Orange Pippin Website. </a><br />
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Later, during a surreptitious (surreptitious-ish) check of Facebook on my phone, I saw a posting by Moe's Southwest Grill proclaiming that today is National Haiku Day. Facebook being a fairly dubious source for that intel (for <i>any </i>intel), I set out to verify that. And, oui, according to the Haiku Foundation (there's a foundation...for reals!!) April 17 is indeed National Haiku Poetry Day. I was perusing award winning haikus on the Foundation's website, and I was like .."what the hell? These haikus are busted!!These hacks! YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!" Yep, I was sitting there rereading<br />
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Well, come to find out, I am ignorant about haikus. They've subdivided Haiku into "Traditional Haiku" (which is haiku as I know it: a 5 syllable first line, 7 syllables in the second & then a third and last line of 5 syllables) and then they have "Contemporary Haiku" which is 3 brief-ish lines that have NO SYLLABIC REQUIREMENTS WHATSOEV! So you're just kinda making sparse, haiku-esque free verse and that counts, does it?? I'm sorry but ...BULLFECKINGSHIT. Why do you have to call that Haiku, when it is totally eschewing the framework that defines Haiku?? <br />
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Late in the afternoon, our office got to talking about the best TV theme songs (it was an attack of Early Onset Friday Afternoon Punchiness) and Sue said how she always liked the instrumental theme for Sanford & Son. This led to a myriad of sub-convos, the first being how I heartily agreed with her.<br />
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And then, poor, deprived Brian chimed in how he'd never even HEARD of Sanford & Son (quelle tragédie!!!) After I provided him with a synopsis, I shared how I had been trying to get the Sanford & Son theme as a ringtone on my cell and it was much more difficult than one would imagine. (all the legit ones proferred for sale on iTunes are crappish new-stereo-recording sounding copies) I don't know that the Sanford theme is my #1 fave TV theme song (it's high up on the list though, fer sure!) that's not why I was compelled to get it on my phone. It was more of a statement... Along with other clerical odd jobs, I've always worked closely with our agency's Director of Facilities & Materials. That is, until he left at the end of January to start his own biz. It seems to absolutely be our M.O. these past few years, to not replace the administrative staff we lose. Shit, just save some $$ and redistribute their duties!! So, while a lot of Larry's jobs weren't *officially* assigned to me, they've fallen to me kinda by default. I've become the lord of the supply room, which is part salvage yard (like medical salvage). Hence me thinking of myself as Fred Sanford. My presiding over the office junkyard. My near-constant urge to bellow "YOU BIG DUMMY" at people. I just need me a LaMont. And some ripple. I mentioned this afternoon that I was going to take to drinking ripple. Brian didn't know what ripple was either (and I suppose, if I'd never watched S&S I wouldn't have known about it either) I emailed him this excerpt from Wikipedia's<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-end_fortified_wine" target="_blank"> nifty write-up</a> on bum wines--<br />
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Then the crew got to wondering--could we actually buy us some ripple anywhere nowadays?? And OF COURSE, I'm the only ne'r-do-well to commence to Googling this. Now this quest lands me on a website that gives me a pop-up warning of POTENTIAL MALWARE. And I spy the word "Trojan" in the pop-up and am savvy enough to know to NOT click a damn thing on that screen, only Alt+F4 pronto & on the double, repeatedly, if needed. I seem to have avoided any PC pox crisis. I have several work pals who <i>have </i>contracted a computer virus...but this was in the course of looking up phone numbers or doing some other work-related search. If <i>that </i> was my sitch, I wouldn't really sweat it, but if I had to beg help of IT because I crashed my computer searching "<i>Where can I buy ripple??" </i> Oy vey...another black mark in the personnel file for me!!!<br />
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<br />Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-59367146619311884532013-04-10T18:02:00.002-07:002013-04-10T18:19:22.415-07:00BAD BehaviorI was a naughty little imp at the office today.<br />
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We got this fax from "The Heritage Registry of Who's Who" proclaiming "YOU HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED FOR INCLUSION IN THE HERITAGE REGISTRY OF WHO'S WHO EXECUTIVES AND PROFESSIONALS 2013 EDITION ."<br />
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Such bollocks, that. They address a definite "you", but the fax isn't even put to anyone's attention. At least the shyster life insurance sales people stipulate "All Employees" when they pretend that the HR department is faxing us about "tremendous savings on life insurance!!" (They have this ad that is a faux fax cover sheet and it's from "HR Dept" How utterly ridic it would be if anyone on the planet fell for that !! HA)<br />
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Anyway these pesky solicitous faxes litter up the table by the fax machine and kinda piss me off. I'm not enraged or anything like that, just irked. It's a douchey way to advertise...they're sucking up MY<br />
resources (toner, paper) and tying up my fax line...how fecking obnoxious!!<br />
Well because I was feeling...like I said, <i>impish</i> today, I didn't instantly toss this into the recycle bin, as usually I do. My first reflex was to fabricate the professional profile and accomplishments of Mr Hugh Janus (Esquire)or Mr Seymour Buttz. But then I thought...<i>What tha shit...am I Bart Simpson?? How sophomoric!!</i><br />
So I used the name "Trevor Harrison" to fill out the form. "Trevor Harrison" is not some arbitrary handle plucked from the ether, he is (ostensibly) the membership director over there at The Heritage Reg offices. Y'all can see just what I wrote, because <i>after faxing it back, </i> I scanned the thing to myself (so amused was I by my own impistry)<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Now here's the dumbass part...after the scan and the fax I was very careful to BE ABSOLUTELY SURE to dispose of this application of Trevor's. I went directly to the secure padlocked shred bin and deposited it therein. Ummm, but I forgot about the fax transmission report. This prints your fax outcome ("Transmitted" or "Failed") over a slightly shrunken image of the first page of your fax. We used to have a copier that printed this page only if your fax failed </span><span style="text-align: center;">to transmit (I personally think that a more sensible S.O.P.) but this new printer prints this page everytime. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">I have no idea who took that thing off the printer...or who </span><span style="text-align: center;">left it--face up --on the table</span><span style="text-align: center;"> . Nor do I have any idea who might have looked it over while it sat there </span><u style="text-align: center;">for hours</u><span style="text-align: center;">. Am fervently hoping that none of those people know what my handwriting looks like!! Well , no, on second thought it matters naught if my handwriting was or wasn't recognizable. Pretty much everyone in the office KNOWS I'm the only nutter apt to do such a thing. Though they may be surprised that I bandy about the word cocksucker so freely (none of them that have ridden in a vehicle I was driving would be surprised..but only a few of 'em have had that thrill).</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"> I just have to bank on mass apathy hope that nobody bothered to read it. </span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;">This *does*make me grateful that my boss is a lazy oaf that would never deign to touch a fax machine( if ever she had a fax needing faxing ,yours truly would be the sender of it)</span><br />
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<br />Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-53516843862222660122013-04-09T17:14:00.001-07:002013-04-09T17:14:23.966-07:00The Last 3 Things I Bought on iTunesYeeeeeeeeeeeah, more about music. I swear, next post, it'll be about something real pithy- business ethics, or quantum physics, or my favorite internet celebrity cats.<br />
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This first one I've been using to kick off nearly every single car trip nowadays...</div>
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I feel like I <i>should</i> be offended by really misogynistic rap lyrics such as these, but truthfully they don't bother me in the slightest.</div>
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The Rumours album has been kicking around the planet for longer than <i>I </i>have, and somehow, incredibly, I just heard that song for the first time last week. I had already written off Fleetwood Mac as "Ok, but not really a particular fave of mine" "Landslide" notwithstanding. Everytime I hear "Landslide" I tear up, yet I still LOVE it. I guess that's technically a F-Mac song, but in my mind it's more of a Stevie Nicks thing. But anywho...not particularly into the group, but I heard "Never Going Back Again" on the radio the other night and was smitten with that guitar. The vocals are more-or-less ignorable, but the guitar is like an extract of all that was sweet about the seventies..it's floppy sun hats and daisies, and riding tandem bikes.</div>
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The instrumentals in this Yardbirds song are amaaaazeballs, It makes me want to go-go dance in hyper turbo-speed. (Ain't nobody wanna see that shit, so I just go-go dance in my mind)</div>
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It seems to me very.. I dunno... complicated for 1965. There's lotsa cool shit going on there, particularly when you contrast it with some o' the stuff from that same period...a basic little ditty like "Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter" for instance...</div>
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Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-34939932413526347182013-04-03T16:19:00.000-07:002013-04-03T16:30:40.150-07:00HEEEEY YOOOOOUUU GUUUUUUUYS!!!<br />
We're gonna turn it oooon, we're gonna bring you the powerrr...<br />
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Oh, no, yooou guuuuuys, I WISH I was about to rant about<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_iGaQglnKg"> that</a> Electric Company, but I actually want to bitch about Green Mountain Power Corporation. And I do realize, 'tis a dull and trite rant topic...something your classic <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLEjpWX1UxY">J Arthur Crank</a><br />
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I set up my GMP account so that it's "paperless". I'm sorta lax about attending to my actual, USPS snail mail, (whereas I'm more or less fused to a computer for the majority of every day) and that's why I've set up my account this way. It cuts down somewhat on all the mailings, though they still send you a sort of abridged bill once a month. You can,at any time, view your account online in full detail. This whole set up would be perfect if I could also <i>pay</i> my bill online. Well, it's not entirely true that I <i>can't</i> . The case is that I won't...because there's a $4.95 CONVENIENCE FEE that I cannot stomach.<br />
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Every crafty hippy peddling paper bead garlands on their bush league Etsy shop has set up a way for me to easily pay online but a corporate giant power corporation can't manage it?? They turf off the processing work to Western Union and that's why there is this infernal convenience fee. I'm trying to PAY THEM (on time, if I can swing it) and they want to charge me more so that I can do so conveniently. Does this seem whack to anyone else???<br />
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I know, I know...it's a power company. They don't have to bother with that competing for business foolishness that entails all that striving for customer satisfaction bushwa. They will charge a convenience fee and I will DEAL. "ThankyousirmayIhaveanother!"<br />
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Well, <i>conversely </i>(just so's you don't think I'm a dissatisfied consumer 100% of the time) there is a corporation I am actually pleased with ...and that is Mysteriously Anonymous Pad Vendors of America Association Corp LLC. No, no, I actually don't have any idea who I'm pleased with (that was a made-up corporation name.as perhaps you surmised) but here is my thought...<br />
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I remember when gumball machines at the front of grocery stores used to have goodies priced at 5 CENTS. It was utter rubbish, of course, but NOW the cheapest rubbish in the bank of gumball machines is a quarter. And I think the quarter machines are becoming rare! Vending machine soda prices have shot up also. It's still pretty cheap to get Sam's Choice soda in the vending machines outside of Walmart, but I, like most discerning adults, would rather drink alpaca piss. I don't know who this "Sam" is, but I seriously question his judgement. Anyway the main point here is :blah blah blah INFLATION (with a sub-point about me being old).<br />
However, in a public restroom the other day, I had an ephiphany. Epiphanies always find me in the can--it's uncanny (<span style="font-size: large;">HA!</span>) The generic Kotex-esque pads in ladies' room vending machines have been priced at 25 cents since the dawn of time. Ok, well, for as long as I can remember, they have been. And, hey, it's been established that I'm olllld, therefore "as long as I can remember" = BEACOUP decades. I was inordinately charmed by this realization (I've decided that "epiphany" is too grandiloquent a term for this case...though let the record show I have had a fair amount of bonafide epiphanies on the toilet). It meant to me that this company....or perhaps companies...(probably they're unionized?) ..realizes that if you have to resort to using one of those almost completely nonadhesive, ginormous, cotton monsters then you are for certain <b>in a bad way</b>. And it would simply be <i>wrong </i>to ratchet up the price on someone who is need like that, inflation be damned. I took it as one of those rare instances of ethics trumping greed, and I was moved. (compose your own bowels wisecrack here)Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-24073833038473891002013-03-27T15:59:00.000-07:002013-03-27T16:06:51.462-07:00La MusicaSome assorted musical thoughts..<br />
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I sometimes share my iTunes purchases in this forum, but since I have been a tunes glutton as of late, it would be easier/briefer to share what I <i>haven't </i> bought on iTunes lately. These songs remain unpurchased--not by any feat of self-restraint. It's just that iTunes ain't selling 'em . You thought EVERYTHING was available on iTunes, didn't ya? So did I, and I was sadly disillusioned. Here are some tracks that continue to elude me...my "iTunes Holy Grails"<br />
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One thing I can't even find on YouTube is a certain version of Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus". I think it's the American radio edit and there's a bit of a guitar riff that is unique to that version and also it has the educational timeline bit. I think he also says in it "Sug-sug-sugar sweet. Sugar sweet." That line is a trifle hazy in my memory, so maybe that's not really in there. But the guitar & the timeline for sure. Now, I do have a perfectly servicable "Rock Me Amadeus" in my tunes library already . But IMHO, "Rock Me Amadeus" is such a benchmark of 80s pop that I MUST OWN every. existing. variation. MUST OWN!!<br />
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There's a decent catalog of stuff by The Cramps on iTunes, but I can't find the one song by them that I reeeeally want--<br />
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And even more aggravating, iTunes has my other Holy Grail proffered on a slew of soundtracks where you can't buy individual tracks. Yes, I want this, but I'm not going to buy an entire $10 soundtrack to get it. And the only Pete Townsend record it's available on is where he performed it live (a good 15 or so yrs after he originally came out with it) for a charity concert. With an acoustic guitar. Mehhh. Not as good. No thank ye.<br />
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I used to have this funny practice of listening to a playlist of showtunes when driving in inclement weather. This sprang from the notion that nothing bad could happen while "76 Trombones" (or anything of that similar ilk) was playing. It would be too ridiculously incongruous a soundtrack, y'know? Well, eventually, I tired of listening to ONLY showtunes in foul weather, so I expanded the inclement driving playlist to include any & all "nothing-bad-can-happen-when-this-is-playing" songs. For instance..."Whoomp! There it is" Nothing bad could ever happen whilest the dulcet tones of Tag Team are back again and making you wave your hands in the air shake yer derriere...and whatnot and so forth<br />
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Anywhooo, shuffling thru my music the other day, and up came "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow" target="_blank">Surfin' Bird</a>" by The Trashmen. I cannot help but smile when listening to that song. I started to consider it being added to the aforementioned playlist but ultimately ruled against it. While it <i>is </i> utterly delightful (it SO is) it is not exactly soothing to the nerves. I can't imagine I could steer serenely and steadily with it blastin' out tha speakers.<br />
Now.as my inclement weather playlist is essentially "mood music", my mind then meandered to mood music for setting <i>the </i>mood. And how freakin' HYSTERICAL would it be if somebody used "Surfin' Bird" for THAT? Yeah, OK, so if it really, in-real-life <i>happened</i> it would be <u>weird</u>. But as a hypothetical absurdity, it's damned amusing. The date comes back for the ostensible "nightcap" and instead of Barry White's Greatest Hits or the old standby slow jams (Teddy Pendergrass springs instantly to mind, though I don't know that I've ever in my life listened to Teddy Pendergrass) you dim the lights and put on ...PAPPA OOO MOW MOW PAPPA OOO MOW MA MOW!! <br />
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Just spotted Surfin' Bird on this erudite & well thought-out <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/list/jonp72/the_100_most_influential_singles_of_the_1960s/" target="_blank">list of influential 60s songs.</a> Perusing that list led me to buy--<br />
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It's definitely an olllllld chestnut, but this version of it is fer sure my fave. < < That is nearly exactly what I wrote about it on <a href="http://www.thisismyjam.com/">This Is My Jam</a> when I posted that as my proffered jam. I dig that site... you post every week a different song..whatever song you're currently hooked on. And you can write a brief caption of just <i>why </i> you are so smitten. And then the other side of the coin, (what I feel makes the site so very brill) is that it will recommend others' jams (based on your chosen jams and your FB likes...if you linked your TimJ account with yer FB account, that is) and you can peruse them and discover new tunes (or just browse freestyle, ignoring any recommendations). If you "follow" someone on the site (ideally peeps whose musical tastes intrigue you), then at log-in, you get the option to play a playlist of all the current jams of those folks. Me mucho gusta!! I'm always digging about for new audio discoveries.. I suppose the site isn't *WORLDS* away from something like Pandora, but I like how user-driven it is.<br />
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<br />Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-41481681444486552582013-03-08T20:28:00.002-08:002013-03-08T20:28:30.695-08:00QuackersI cannot say that --absolutely, across-the-board , I HATE REALITY TV. I adore Project Runway, and there was a really trashy one called High School Reunion that I rather sheepishly enjoyed (and I wish they would bring back) But really there is such a godawful glut of "reality" programming on now and I hate the majority of it. <br />
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So my friend was yammering on about "Duck Dynasty" the other day and I <em>had</em> to interrupt him to say how much that show name always makes me imagine a reboot of Aaron Spelling's Dynasty with cartoon ducks....and how I wish that was really the case. Now *THAT * I would tune into. And somehow that image got rattling around in my noggin. I had to try and exorcise it outta there thru MS Paint...<br />
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Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-78230660805795636892013-03-08T19:23:00.001-08:002013-03-08T19:23:46.896-08:00You Deserve Better!!..better than months of silence and then recycled email banter. But recycled banter you're getting (sorry!!) in the hopes that it will prime the proverbial pump and get me blogging a bit more frequently. <br />
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And hey, it's not like I haven't don *any* work-- I screen capped, I obscured last names to protect the work-shirkin' guilty. I'll be honest--<em>vis a vis the guilt --</em> it's 99.9% my guilt. I don't really believe that anyone is captivated by what I'm streaming over AccuRadio. But the show & tell keeps my brain from going ENTIRELY numb....and sometimes it evolves into semi-entertaining repartee..<br />
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I should maybe stipulate that "Thigh Ride" is an obscure little musical nugget from the 80s that comes on AccuRadio from time to time. Like, more times than one would expect. When it comes on, I rarely can sit through the whole thing (well, </span></strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcw7WcKo0Us" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: red; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">HERE</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: red; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">, you try!). But I do screen cap it before hitting skip, as I am irresistably compelled to alert someone (usually Kara) that I'm actually hearing a song called THIGH RIDE.</span></strong> </div>
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Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-16188667405751588712012-12-10T22:03:00.000-08:002012-12-10T22:03:01.049-08:00"Well Let Me Ask You THIS.."Okay...these 4 minutes and 39 seconds I am about to lay on ya should ABSOLUTELY make up for any recent neglect on my part.<br />
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I was writing out Christmas cards, and listening to one of those Music Choice TV stations when *that* came on. After actually, physically doing a double take, I thought, " I bet this ridiculously bad song has a ridiculously bad video." Hence my seeking it out on YouTube. And believe it or not, I was hoping for something a little more ridiculous. The low-budget Claymation is just SAD. I mean, it is quite crappy and cheesy, but overshadowed by the song itself. The whole interrogation style of it kinda makes ya feel like you're in couples' counseling.<br />
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Hands down, the best part is him quoting his <em>sassified </em>partner (he did say "sassified",yeah? Did I hear that rightly??) at the 3:13 mark"ClarenceCarterClarenceCarterClarenceCarterClarenceCarterClarenceCarter awww SHIT ClarenceCarter" I wonder why it is he insists on his special sassified ladies addressing him only by his full name??<br />
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<br /></span>Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-87276731163622711972012-11-19T16:52:00.002-08:002012-11-19T16:52:31.621-08:00New Product AlertThe <a href="http://www.loveisartkit.com/" target="_blank">Love Is Art kit</a> came to my attention via a catalog I get in the mail called Uncommon Goods. <br />
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I am not <em>opposed</em> to buying this. I mean, presently, I don't have anyone to use it with, but if I did, I think it would make for a very clever Valentine's Day gift. The only thing that would stop me from buying it for my Valentine is that I have a mile-wide cheapskate streak and I would talk myself out of it thusly: "<em>Ok, Sandra you *know* what is in the kit...can you not reproduce that on the cheapie-cheap? Get some posterboard, grab a gallon of Sherwin Williams, stop off at Walgreens for a 4 pack of wine coolers and it's ON, babe" </em><br />
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But imagine...perhaps this beau that cranks out this amazing avante garde marvel with you just happens to be THE ONE. This could be the best part, methinks. You marry this guy. Your coital masterpiece is hanging up in the livingroom...and yeah, it gives the room a nice focal point and look how it complements the sage accents in the throw rug but ALSO..you and the hubby have this great, bonding inside joke. Like, your pastor comes over for brunch and admires your painting's enthralling asymmetry and y'all are inwardly losing your shit. And your progeny haven't the slightest inkling about how or where you got that artwork that's over the mantel. Of course you be the sort of sicko sadist parent that reveals all about the painting's origins and wind up with a kid that can't walk into the livingroom without cringing. <br />
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I was a little surprised though, at the number of reviews on the Uncommon Goods website from folks who bought this for <em>other people. </em>Like for *other couples*. Generally, as a wedding gift. Either you're <em>really </em>close to this couple (like fellow swingers, maybe? I'm totally imagining that someone like <a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/hl-40040420/saturday_night_live_love_ahs_in_the_hot_tub_season_27/" target="_blank">this duo</a> giving the kit for a gift) or it's just awkward. It IS awkward, isn't it? It's not just me being prudey and Catholic about it?Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-6381952218456712862012-11-06T19:05:00.004-08:002012-11-06T19:13:20.914-08:00If I'd had Facebook 20 years ago.......would I have used it so insipidly??? I guess I can't say for sure, but I'd like to think my 15 year old self would be fairly savvy.<br />
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I don't know if you have, or have had, or will have a 15 yr old niece on Facebook, but I tell ya, it's an exercise in self-restraint. If my sister ever logged on (she is not 1/2 the FB junkie that I am...which is funny since she coerced *me* into creating an account back in the day) she would go loco with trying to discern the bullshit faux angst from legit issues. <br />
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She's always posting lovesick yearnings, like addressing some anonymous unrequited love. And probably about 45% of it is quoting Taylor Swift songs, but I can never tell right away 'cause I'm hardly up on my Swifty.<br />
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The funny thing is, when you directly question her about it , "Sooo, are you OK?" or "Is there someone at school you're crushing on??" she will react like it was the most INTRUSIVE thing *EVER* for you to ask such a thing. As if it were a top secret subject!! Posting 3/4 of a revelation online and then pleading the fifth in person is something akin to people who start to tell you something but suddenly opt not to. Except it's not at all an internalized about-face, it's saying out loud: "Oh, I heard something that I shouldn't tellll--oh. Uh. Nevermind. No. I'm not going to tell you." Grrr...WHY DO PEOPLE THINK IT'S OK TO DO THAT??? That is maaaad irksome!! <br />
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So, OK, if my niece is indicative of your average teenager, than I deduce that teens are wont to vent about their innermost secrets on the internet... broadcast to just 200 of their closest friends.... and 300 of their closest passing acquaintences?? I am going to appropriate from Cosby and deem them all BRAAAAIN DAMAGED! <br />
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The other day, Chloe posted this pic--<br />
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Well, okay, I suppose that could do with a bit of explanatory backstory. The day before, I had shown her the sound board website <a href="http://www.instantsfun.es/" target="_blank">Instants Fun!</a> and there was one sound on there that gave her the big time creeps. It was the slow singing of the phrase "Jiggly Puff". Later, I snooped around a li'l bit and discovered it was from some pivotal scene in an episode of Pokemon . I posted that scene to Chloe's wall--</div>
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Yeah, I don't exactly get her little friend's comment. I mean, it's nice and all, to pay her a sweet compliment, but she just jammed it in there out of context. Unless I'm the amazing lady...but I don't think I am. It could be that she was implying "DON'T HARRASS CHLOE WITH POKEMON BECAUSE SHE IS AN AMAZING LADY" <br />
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Oh...somewhat related PS--<br />
Another faaaaaaaaaaantastic soundboard site is <span id="goog_1425345157"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/">The Rap Board<span id="goog_1425345158"></span></a>. For some odd reason, I can never get ALL the rapper head buttons to work. But I do dig what ones I have been able to load.Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-73953425547701903392012-10-25T22:43:00.000-07:002012-10-25T22:50:48.460-07:00GrapesThis morning, the main host of the morning show I tune in to was talking about his habit of stealing grapes from the produce section. He recently had a specific situation where he popped 2 grapes in his mouth, then spotted another shopper giving him a disapproving look. Annoyed by this disapproving look, he ate 3 more grapes (a gesture of "so there!"). The conversation topic then became, "Is that STEALING??" The show hosts were about evenly divided on this topic, and same with the listeners who called in. One of the dumbest arguments, that I cannot believe was so popular was "NO! EVERYBODY does that!!" <br />
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OK, well, eating something you're not going to pay for is classified as stealing as per the damn definition of stealing. A crime is not rendered a non-crime on the grounds of it being commonplace. And here's why the funny little morning show banter reemerged in my head: it occurred to me: cheating on your spouse is becoming like eating grapes in the grocery store. Affairs aren't surprising people anymore. They seem to have morphed into just one of the standard potholes in the marital road, whereas they used to be a big fuckin' deal. I was sitting at lunch, with my two work besties--W. , who grew up with infidelity in her parents' marriage, and R, whose 2nd marriage broke up due to her ex running off with another woman. So, I knew they would both have some firsthand insight to offer when I was telling them how my sister called me up sobbing because she discovered today my brother-in-law has been having an affair for over a year..<br />
Oh yeah. I had a whopper of an entry in the "You Learn Something New Everyday" file for 10/25/2012.<br />
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I am absolutely surprised and simultaneously thinking I shouldn't be surprised at all. I've known for a long time that Greg is selfish, that he "phones it in" as a father, that my sister does all the compromising in that relationship. He has this way of "doing his own thing" which is not necessarily a bad thing, in the right measure, but he does his own thing by default...and CONSTANTLY. All these things make for an excellent cheater, don't they?? And yet, I never expected it from him. It's not that I took him to be too morally upright for such things...noooo, never that. I actually thought him TOO wrapped up in himself to connect with another woman. I thought him passionless, and not creative enough for intrigue. I thought he was a dull slob and who the hell else would have him? And I thought he listened and believed it when we'd gossiped of others' infidelities and my sister insisted she'd kill or castrate him if ever he cheated.<br />
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As of our last texts of around 8pm, she had not killed or castrated him. She did confront him, but he is not owning up to it. She can't tell him that his sister told her about it (the sister, even though she is DISGUSTED with Greg, does not want to be excommunicated) so she had confronted him with some scrap of circumstantial evidence and he's denying everything. And it's my niece's 8th birthday and they went out for a nice family dinner at The Weathervane. She texted me that they're make-believing all is OK and she feels sick. And I replied: I don't know how u r holding back from ripping the oars off the wall & bludgeoning the fucker.<br />
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Well, having lunch with her tomorrow. I have no idea what to say to her. Talking to her on the phone today, I feel like I kept parrotting the same dumb phrases--there was "I can't believe that selfish, thoughtless pig asshole" and the <em>supremely</em> unhelpful "Holy Shit, whaddareyougonnaDO?" But I did leave her a nice voicemail...it was basically "Tell me what I can do to help. I love you." I think if I just keep telling her that....<br />
<br />Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-84673928736874894492012-10-24T20:51:00.000-07:002012-10-25T20:54:52.972-07:00Yet Another Hodge Podge Whenever I get gravely blogstipated it seems I always crank out a list of some sort. I guess I'm not inspired enough on any one topic, so if I throw up a few disjointed bulletpoints I think it might suffice. It's better than nothin' anyway? Si? No?<br />
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1. I just "LIKED" Vincent Price on Facebook and was astounded, appalled and surprised that I had not already done so. I'm am pretty damned conscientious about FB liking things (in regards to art, pop culture, businesses, products etc...)that I like IRL. I kinda get this little pang of gratification that--I dunno- I suppose comes from some sense of "making it official". I also think if FBI profilers need to study me one day, I want them to have lots of fodder for study. Lots and lots of paradoxical, confounding fodder.<br />
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2. Looking up and liking VPrice called to mind my "Interchangable Celebs" roster. Well, they're not ALL interchangable, but I think some sure are. They're all inextricably linked (sometimes inexplicably linked) in my mind. Like Vincent Price acts like a trigger that invariably makes me think of Jack Palance (and vice versa...but let the record show that I don't love Palance near as much as I do Price) Here is a wee sub-list:<br />
1. Rachel Bilson & Mila Kunis<br />
2. Jack Palance & Vincent Price<br />
3. Bill Paxton & Bill Pullman (is this duo not on EVERYONE'S list?)<br />
4. Paul Giamatti & Philip Seymour Hoffman<br />
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The list is actually much longer but now that I'm focusing on the list, writing about it, my mind is going blank. Feck.<br />
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3. A few months back, there was a Team Building Meeting (replete with overpaid consultants!) for our managers. An hour or so after this meeting wrapped, I was walking through the conference room it was held in and I saw that they had some bullet points still posted up on the wall (have you seen those flip charts that have adhesive backing that render the pages into like giant Post-Its? That's what they used in this meeting) I figured that page was headed for the trash, so I proceeded to deface it (of course!)<br />
WELL...imagine my surprise when I went into my boss's office to do her a favor last week, and I found that posted on her wall. I snapped a few pics with my cell (ever-so-slyly, mind you. She was nowhere around, but the office door was wide open) . <br />
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So you can't really see where I defaced it in the top pic, but you can see in the bottom one my contribution: "with your spelling". OK, so it's not like I spray-painted my gang tag on there or scribbled penises on there,but it was still done with a spirit of impudence. Snarky impudence. I realize that those notes were jotted up there during a rapid fire brainstorming orgy, but that's no excuse. If I'd seen that someone had, apres faux pas, tried to wedge the omitted C in there with one o' those ^ dealies, I woulda for sure let it slide. But we PAY those jackalopes to intruct our management...so I'm less than thrilled that they are propagating the shoddy spelling skills that are already epidemical with that lot.</div>
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4. Speaking of workplace wall postings, I have the job of maintaining the office "Kudos Board". This is a cork board repository for all the good feedback<span lang="EN"> for our staffers (usually stuff reported through email, sometimes cards sent in to us). I had, recently, a TOTALLY BRILL. notion that would cut down on gratuitous praise. I could makeover the "Kudos Board" into a "HaiKUDOS Board" and make it mandatory for all commendations submitted to be in the form of a Haiku poem. Of course, there's a definite conflict of interest issue with me doing <i>my own</i> Haikudo, but just for the sake of y'all having an example---</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Scurry, office wench<br />
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you clerical gun for hire.<br />
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Give that girl a raise!<br />
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I don't read Cosmo, but I am glad that the publication keeps a-chug, chug, chuggin' along, for it gives me one of my favorite annual customs. I quite enjoy hopping on the 'zine's website and poring over the annual<a href="http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/bachelors-2012/" target="_blank"> BACHELOR OF THE YEAR CANDIDATES</a>. Every year (if I happen to remember--or see somewhere--that it's Cosmo Bachelor voting time) I have an intense, extended ogle, and the rest of the year I am <em>completely</em> unshallow and judge absolutely everybody on the content of their character. I swear.<br />
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So, get over there & rock the vote...it is absolutely pointless, except perhaps it might get you in a voting mood and get you all sortsa jazzed for voting this November. I looked at all 50 contenders (all 50 <em>tributes..</em> ha haa) and was gonna jot down a top 5 but I just could NOT whittle my list down to 5. It's a FIIIINE crop this year. I had to do a top 10. And the Top 10 is (in reverse order, to try and percolate a modicum of suspense here) (thumbnails = links--so what a tricky trick I've mastered!!)<br />
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A few notes: Although I read every single interview, I did not take them into consideration at all. If I were factoring in interview answers, my #1 might not have even cracked the top 10. He seems like he has douchebag potential. ALSO, Ohio was a very, verrry close second. Like, in a way I'm most smitten with him (and yes, I think it IS the hipster Richie Cunningham styling that gets me) but I tried to judge empirically, and singling out the top physical specimen in an empirical fashion, I'd have to award the honors to NY. He <em>is </em>quite gorg. </div>
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Maybe the case of Phineas Gage stuck in my head (haahaa...see what I did there?) so resolutely because it was one of my fellow Vermonters making a name for himself. . . albeit not in the most clever of ways. But I do think Gage was a landmark case. I know we devoted a whole lecture to him in my college Psych 101 class. Also, you don't make the opening credits to<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iR-QjtpZQ0" target="_blank"> Ripley's Believe it or Not</a> if your tale is obscure and unimportant. Yep, that's Gage's pike-punctured skull floating at ya right at the start of the intro. Actually, that image of his skull was all I'd ever seen of P-Gage. Consequently, I was ever so surprised to find that when I clicked on the Wiki write up to review the details of the event, it featured *two* photos of the man. It seems I had never encountered them before because they are both quite recent finds. The daguerreotype below was authenticated in 2009</div>
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Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-8026572597603973522012-09-19T18:06:00.001-07:002012-09-19T18:17:29.430-07:00All The News That's Fit To Blog. . .You wouldn't guess it from the frothy tone of this here blog, but I do actually follow the news. It's a perfunctory &peripheral sort of following, but nonetheless....I am not <em>entirely </em>oblivious to current events.<br />
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I suppose the most "hard-hitting"& legit of my picks would be Joe Biden on the campaign trail in Ohio. It was the accompanying AP photo, and notsomuch <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/joe-biden-cozies-up-with-female-biker/" target="_blank">the article</a> that reeled me in here.<br />
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Now I'm staunchly <u>on the fence,</u> politically speaking. But I don't find myself appalled that Biden is kind of a wild card..that he's known to say something a little outta left field from time-to-time. As long as he doesn't say anything MEAN or grammatically flawed or blatantly stupid, then I think it makes him endearingly human. <em>This </em>faux pas though...not very endearing. HE LOOKS LIKE A CREEPER!! I mean, I suppose if Marge is cool with it, then he's technically <em>not</em> a creeper but...eww. Personal space, man. Who the hell gets *that* nuzzley with someone they just met?<br />
What really makes this snapshot primo is the facial expressions of the two biker dudes. The older guy...just...not impressed. And with young Son of Anarchy (at left) I can just hear the repulsed "Oh, EWWww." that he is suppressing. Haa.<br />
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Incidentally, this was snapped moments before Biden dropped some coinage into the juke, fired up "Tequila", and did an EPIC dance atop the bar. <br />
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Does celebrity news count as news? Probably not, I suppose. Nevertheless, <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-looked-ravishing-at-wedding-2012179" target="_blank">the dreadful union of Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively </a>hath snagged my attention. I wouldn't say I've been a Blake Lively fan, I've been indifferent to her, if anything. She <em>had</em> seemed a nice enough girl though. But how unbelievably RUDE to marry this guy that I called dibs on back in...ohhhh...whenever it was his 1st marriage hit the skids. Like, if she had consulted me, I may have begrudgingly assented but...not so much as a Facebook wall message from Blake. That just isn't done. Her grasp etiquette of etiquette is direly inadequate!!!<br />
Bitch.<br />
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Actually I do think Ry Ren has made bride upgrade this time around. Scarlett Johanssen irks the hell outta me for some reason I cannot quite pinpoint. But how cheezy that they wed where 'The Notebook' was filmed?? I'm sure <a href="http://boonehallplantation.com/" target="_blank">Boone Hall Plantation</a> is uber-gorg. but there's no way (I don't think) that it's coincidental that's also the setting in The Notebook. And if you MUST opt for a movie locale as a wedding venue, then show some damn igenuity, wouldja? I mean-- ALL CHICKS LOOOOVVVE 'The Notebook'. Could you be any more trite, Blakey? <br />
'Kay ..I feel a brief tangent is warranted re: my implicit dis of 'The Notebook'. Look, I like a romantic movie as much as ANY chica. The movie is undeniably romantic. But cha know what <em>else</em> it is??? Fucking depressing!! I like my schmoop fix without the side of Alzheimers, please. Something like <em>Last Tango in Paris</em> is more my cup o' tea...or, uhh, dish o' butter I should say. Ha haa ha...*<br />
Now, I quite like the look of the place where Reynolds had his first wedding: <a href="http://www.wildretreat.com/About_Clayoquot_Wilderness_Resort/index.asp" target="_blank">Clayoquot Wilderness Retreat</a> in British Columbia.<br />
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So, in summation, bride upgrade, venue downgrade, I have every hope he'll get <em>all</em> high marks in his third attempt.<br />
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Lastly, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/10/world/asia/india-airport-primate-smuggling/index.html?fb_action_ids=2398759905853&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=timeline_og&action_object_map=%7B%222398759905853%22%3A428365597201319%7D&action_type_map=%7B%222398759905853%22%3A%22og.recommends%22%7D&action_ref_map=[]" target="_blank">THIS</a> is in the running to be my *fave* news item of all of 2012. I find it remarkable that he didn't just stuff a loris in his pants, he stashed the critter RIGHT. IN. HIS. GONCH<span style="color: red;"><strong>*</strong></span>. That's ratcheting up the intimacy factor considerably, eh? As soon as I read that, I emailed it out to some chums, my subject header being "Slender's OK, as long as you know how to use your loris" I mean, I <em>had</em> to go with sophomoric phallus humor, but I felt like "Izzat a Loris In Yer Pants Or RU Just Happy to See Me?" was waaaaaay, way too obvi.<br />
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<em><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-small;">*I am totally jesting about my go-to romantic movie. It's NOT 'The Notebook'--or any other Nicholas Sparks dreck, but it sure as hell ain't 'Last Tango' either!!</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">* I just learned that bit o' slang today. I get email sales from Fab.com and they peddle whimsical undergear by a company called Ginch Gonch and that name amused me immensely. I thought--I bet they didn't just arbitrarily string together some goofy sounding syllables--I bet that means something. But what?? I hit up Urban Dictionary and the concensus there seems to be that both "Ginch" & "Gonch" ="underwear" Funny, funny! And bonus: it sounds like it would mean something way nastier....</span></em>Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-52512633041457266292012-09-11T21:41:00.001-07:002012-09-11T21:46:11.172-07:00Random Screen Shots<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have Urban Dictionary as a bookmarked site on my phone. It can prove rather handy. Say you are driving and your favorite Soulja Boy song comes on the radio (Blecch...there's no accounting for taste, I 'spose) and you become overwhelmingly perplexed by whatever could Soulja mean by "Superman dat ho" ? Well, you could use Urban Dictionary to figure that one out. It's on there. I DO NOT advise looking it up, but it's on there.<br />
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So like I said, the site can come in handy...but I take the info on there with a big grain o' salt. Like, I've have browsed o'er definitions on there and I really can't imagine real humans having a real-life conversation that is peppered with that jargon.<br />
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So Urban Dictionary sez to me: "Look up anything, like your city". My city? Hey, look,I'm not really into discovering how my beloved hometown is a warped euphemism for sharting during sex. I don't wanna know that!! That verbage though, in particular, their use of "anything" reads like a CHALLENGE to me. And actually it is pretty tricky to throw somethin' in that search field that won't surprise you with some rude and/or filthy secret connotation. That screen shot there is me trying to stump UD. Aglet has a rude meaning (supposedly). Didn't stump it with "spatula " either (ewww). <br />
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However there is no Urban definition of "Pachalafaka". That was a relief because it would be a damn shame for these UD creeps to sully one of my silly old Muppet Show memories. That song was on the very first season of the Muppets. And apparently, the Muppets stole it from Soupy Sales (<em>see below</em>) <br />
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So, yeah, don't fret...it might be some myseriouso gibberish, but I've looked into it and it's nothing untowards.Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-11610817018583824052012-09-10T17:45:00.000-07:002012-09-10T17:45:49.857-07:00In Lieu of an Actual Gift...Last Thursday was the birthday of my work compadre Paul. I totally forgot that it was his birthday until late morning, and I only remembered it then because I had smuggled my phone into the bathroom and took a quick hit of Facebook. I know hundreds of people (a regular socialite,fer sure) but truthfully I only remember about 10 birthdays via my own brainpower. Sooo yeah, birthday naggin' --that's one Facebook positive (to counteract the countless FB evils).<br />
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Anyways, I'd spoken to Paul numerous times by 11am, never once mentioning his b-day, so it was quite clear that I was oblivious to it. And it's not as if Paul is going to get to make out with Jake Ryan on a table over a giant birthday cake that evening...so I felt bad. <br />
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I had happened to read that a.m. , the Wikipedia write up of Sept 6th. It's this NERDY workday custom of mine...I read the list of historical anniversaries du jour & famous birthdays. Yeah, yeah, yeah, scoff all you wanna now, but perhaps someday I'll be in a hostage situation, and I'll just up and blurt out, "You can't shoot me today!! Today marks the 30th anniversary of Wayland Flowers & Madame's debut on Solid Gold!!" And --oh yes--I WILL be spared. Who would ever snuff out such a font of quirk and knowledge?<br />
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But back to Paul's birthday.. . .due to my wiki habit, I happened to know that Paul shared a birthday with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schreck" target="_blank">Max Schreck</a> , the creepy mysterious German actor who played the titular role in <em>Noseferatu (1922)</em> You'd have to know Paul to understand what wondrous serrendipity this is. There is no better patron celebrity for this guy. And Paul was also pleased to learn this. He posted it on his Facebook wall. But he neglected--tragically-- to post the MS Paint masterpiece I made for him (on <em>work time</em>, please note, so it wasn't just a gift of my artistry, but it was also a sacrifice of my professional integrity as a cubicle-bound minion drone). <br />
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I used the original (and intensely creepy) Nosferatu publicity still from Schreck's Wiki bio--<br />
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Downright lovable, no??Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-82527638202371426442012-09-05T16:15:00.002-07:002012-09-05T16:15:36.962-07:00BluppetsI saw <a href="https://www.cuddleuppets.com/?MID=1415846&gclid=CIL0-rXDn7ICFYKK4Aod7hMAwA" target="_blank">these</a> in Kmart the other day. I was trekking on up to the checkouts and had actually passed them by but the sight of 'em actually made me throw it into reverse 3 paces and pull a classic double take. WHAAAA? ? <br />
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BROWN BEAR: I KNOW! Dude. Totally.<br />
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By the way, I would like the alligator one. Possibly the blue elephant, if Gator is n/a I also think, if I could acquire one on the cheapie cheap, it would be a hoot to present one as a gift to my canine-nephew, Bo. <br />
Well, not just any Cuddleuppet (I'll grant, that <em>is</em> a clever name..but there's just something about "Bluppet" I like more) I would give Bo the yellow doggy the yellow doggy Cuddleuppet. Bo, snuggling a stoned caricature of himself (or gnawing its head off)....I'd find that rather amusing. Not 20 bucks worth of amusing though!!<br />
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They were to commence installation at 3:30--planned to coincide with an out-of-the-office errand I had to run. So prior to dashing out, I made this (<em>below</em>) and taped it to my monitor--<br />
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Only to find it there when I got back... and installation just wrapping up. He had done the whole thing remotely from the IT lair. I dunno why I forgot that they did that. <br />
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And the thing is...I don't even particularly like Jason. He is my least favorite of 3 IT guys (none of whom I particularly like). But work flow was kind of at an ebb and I just got a colorful set of glitter gel pens I was jonesin' to wield. It would have been fine to just leave a cute note on my desk even if he is unworthy. NO WAY in Hades was I going to make an extra effort to deliver this unto him. So into the garbage it went. But first, on a whim, I decided to scan it to myself....I could crop out the "Jason" and would surely have many opportunities to make use of the "Thanx" <br />
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I bestow unto y'all the original, uncropped scribble. I apologize that the scan doesn't convey the majestic glitteriness. Hey, at last check, I had 19 followers to this blog. What're the odds that one of 'em is named Jason? Well, shit, I haven't a clue (I have NO aptitude for mathin' whatsoev) So hey f you're a non-Jason,I've given you a nice statistics prob to play with there. You're welcome.<br />
And if your name is Jason, THANX for reading my blog, Jason. Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-53923163024093768762012-07-25T19:01:00.002-07:002012-07-25T19:01:41.145-07:00Sounds, Sights, Gustatory Delights..etc..<div class="yiv850113423MsoNormal" id="yui_3_2_0_10_1343251768448429">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I TORE through those discs and then I was like—DAAAAAMMIT—my library only has that one season!! I pondered initiating my very first interlibrary loan transaction but opted not to. My burgeoning True Blood addiction demanded more instant gratification. Said addiction was so powerful that it trumped my pennypinchery and I went to a movie rental place and started renting subsequent seasons. You read right—a movie rental <i><span style="font-style: italic;">place</span></i> not an online streaming site or a Red Box kiosk. How surprisingly old timey, eh? This place opened up back in April and I went in shortly thereafter out of curiosity. I almost felt like I was on an archaeological expedition of sorts. They had some special going, so I signed up for a membership card& rented 3 DVDs at that time, but after returning those 3, I hadn’t been back there. Until now, that is. While I did have to expend some moolah, it was a fairly shrewd way to go. I looked at True Blood on iTunes and it was quite pricey. Seems to me that all their TV /movie offerings are. This shop, MGM (<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-style: italic;">not </span></i>named for the studio, actually. Stands for “Movies-Games-Music</span>”) has specials everyday, has a *<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">ton</span></b>* of TV shows in stock (i<span style="font-size: x-small;">ncluding seasons 1-4 of True Blood</span>) and all the rentals you get for 5days. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m 2 episodes into Season 4 now, and have come to suspect that, while I rather LOVE the show, my addiction is actually an Alexander Skarsgard addiction. Oh. My. Homina, homina, homina. WORD... he is the <u>ULTIMATE</u>. I always imagined that if I met a celeb IRL, (<span style="font-size: x-small;">I have, actually, but ‘twas long ago and underwhelming. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span style="font-style: italic;">Full list of celebrity encounters available upon request <span style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></i></span> my <i><span style="font-style: italic;">sangfroid </span></i> would be unwavering and they would be quite charmed by my uncommon poise. But I tell ya, if I saw Alexander Skarsgard buying socks at Kohl's, fuck <i><span style="font-style: italic;">sangfroid,</span></i> I would drop to one knee and propose marriage before introductions. Hey, it could happen. Kohl's is the #1 clothing retailer in the nation. (<span style="font-size: x-small;">No b.s., that. I think I picked that up from some </span></span><a href="http://forbes.com/" id="yui_3_2_0_10_1343251768448435" target="_blank"><span id="lw_1343251768_1"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Forbes.com</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> slideshow</span>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm just about outta steam, but I did imply "gustatory delights" would be provided, didn't I? Recently I tried out BK's Southwestern Breakfast Burrito and I liked it a lot. I kinda prefer the picante sauce that McDonalds doles out with their b-fast burritos, but otherwise the BK one is superior. They throw a hash brown over the top of the fillings and that adds this nice mystery-crispy factor. Oh, except I just obliterated all the mystery for you. My bad. It's bigger and more caloric and probably fattier than the McD equivalent, but what's the point of having a wee skimpy breakfast burrito that is so unfullfilling that you wind up eating quadruple the lunch? I <em>try </em>to eat inverted triangle style-- a bigger breakfast, scale down your lunch some, and then do a small dinner. Oh, and pathetically, I am in a position these days to offhandedly know that the BK burrito is only 4 Weight Watchers Points more than the McDonalds one. (<span style="font-size: x-small;">So far, everything's going in the right direction, lbs-wise (though ever so gradually) but I was thinking about how if an investigator were to "profile " me now, utilizing my Bing search history, he/she would conclude that I am incredibly, unbearably,banal. <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Carbohydrates in Orangina"</span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">"What is the points value of a Twizzler?"</span> Oy vey...</span>)</span></div>
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Bookish banter with Paul...he was stunned by overhearing these 2 coworkers chat about the 50 Shades of Grey series and one of these ladies remarking that these were the first books she's read since high school...<br />
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from a week or so ago...<br />
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Ok , ok, ok chortles aside...onto the rants. Here are some of the things that most irk me about life on the cubicle farm...<br />
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Mass lunch orders-- I admit, this is a weird thing to be annoyed by. So the scenario is this-- I get an idea of where to go for lunch (I am struck with "LUNCHSPIRATION", as I call it...yes I really do call it that) and I mention to my good pal Rox "I wanna order Cantore's to deliver. You in?" Invariably, Rox proclaims loudmouthedly "WE'RE ORDERING LUNCH FROM CANTORE'S!" The immediate result is about 20 "Oh me too!"s. The time I intended for my break is swiftly approaching, but I've not ordered yet, because Pam & Joanne are looking over the menu, and oh-- maybe Shawna wants to order too. And, natch, there's a dozen quirks & codicils to Pam's order and Shawna's totally MIA. Then, when everybody's made up their minds, somehow, <em>I </em>wind up with all the cash, doing the ordering. Someone's order gets fucked up, someone else thinks I tipped excessively...BAAH. Lunch is NOT supposed to be so high-pressure. I've trained myself now...I will actually email to Rox "I'm getting Cantore's for lunch. You can order too, but KEEP YOUR DAMN MOUTH SHUT ABOUT IT"<br />
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This is even more crotchety of me-- I hate passing around cards for people. It's not that I don't wanna impart get well wishes or happy birthdays. I just hate how the circulation of the card devolves into a disorganized clusterfuck. What they ought to do is..if there is a Happy Birthday card for Joanne, send out an "Email All" email, then open up the distribution list and delete Joanne's email address from it, then broadcast "There is a birthday card for Joanne at so-n-so's desk. Stop by between now and 3pm on Friday to sign. We will be giving her the card at 3pm Friday when we have cake in the lunchroom." But that is not how it's done in my office. They oh-so-cleverly put the card in a manila folder and someone signs it...gives it to another person to sign...and it gets shuttled around the office thusly. Oh sure, that <em>sounds </em>simple enough, but it always gets to a point when, the card is getting pretty loaded up with signatures and it takes a bit of figuring to see who has & hasn't signed it (to determine whom you should pass it along to) And often you wind up with someone wandering down the aisle , a daft cow, saying "Did you sign this? Did YOU sign this? Card for Joanne--who needs to sign it?" So me, I get the card and I just take a moment and figure this out by <em>reading</em>. Often, I get these cards to sign before Paul will (probl'y 'cause many in the office are put off by Paul). So I would sign, check & verify that there is no Paul scrawl and carry it next door to his desk to him. He always would sign it and then just immediately bring it right back to me. GRRRRR-- did that burn my toaster strudel!! I put that in the past tense, because this pattern has ceased.....well, I just don't give him anything to sign anymore.<br />
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I also get annoyed by the lack of resourcefulness in my office. I get the sense that there are just three, maybe four of us who get how to look up information on the internet. It is way more commonplace for somebody to just bellow "WHAT'S THE PHONE NUMBER FOR THE RANDOLPH SENIOR CENTER??" Are you for real that unevolved? Seriously????<br />
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And lastly, but not at all leastly, I am probably getting an ulcer from all the piss-poor spelling & grammar in my coworkers' emails. It aggravates me THAT much. Proofreading is a dying art form. It really is sickening. I am even more appalled when I see such sloppiness in management emails. Dammit, I expect a modicum of education and literacy apparent in folks that make 4X what I do. Oh, and all of the emails from our intake department are IN ALL CAPS. ALL THE FECKING TIME. Sometimes a rookie to the agency will question why that is and the explanation often given is something to the effect of " Oh, well, it was decided , for consistency's sake, that all the case notes they input in the system, would be in all caps". Now that is the popular wisdom, but <em>I</em> never give that answer. That is a BULLSHIT explanation!! Unacceptable!! If you can't figure out how to disengage your caps lock or if you find disengaging and re-locking too labor intensive well...you are seriously fucking impaired in my estimation.Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16578555303312380253noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817607.post-57705383622922833352012-05-30T19:37:00.001-07:002012-07-08T11:09:10.713-07:00They Say You CAN'T Judge a Book By Its Cover...and yet I always do. I WILL buy the occasional trashy historical romance but NOT if Fabio is on the cover. You can always pick out a chick lit book (a genre I generally avoid)without reading the jacket copy because of the fonts & palettes they use on the front.<br />
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Ahhhh, but they don't make covers like they used to, dammit. Here are some favorites I found on the site <a href="http://www.coverbrowser.com/" target="_blank">Cover Browser</a>. The website is just covers of magazines, games, comics, & books--very simple but thoroughly enjoyable. It is probably the best site ever for mindless 'net meandering, because you hardly have to do any reading or thinking at all. The pissah of it is, half the time I plug the URL into my browser, it won't load. It's sickly, that website. Luckily, I am sharing a goodly number of faves (in the hopes that my smartass captions will suffice for a proper post. I am ever so blogstipated. SORRY) so maybe you will never need to peruse Cover Browser. <em>Although...</em> I did just focus on trashy book covers here and the website has quite a lot of comic book covers to explore. (Parenthetical tangent here-- I am a wannabe comic book nerd. It seems to me like comics woulda been a neat thing to get into..'cept I never did. I consider delving into it, but then think....WOW, there is such a long and complex mythos for DC, for Marvel...and that's not even tapping into all the indie publications. At this stage...I obviously didn't catch any comics <em>ab ovo</em>, and it is just NOT humanly possible to catch up....MASSIVE undertaking, that. So fuck it. ) (Tangent PS: that whole rant also applies to why I never watched <em>Lost</em>) <br />
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If ever you do scope out the comics covers on Cover Browser, seek out the lone "Cap'n Oatmeal" cover. It fascinates me immensely. <br />
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Back to my looong-abandoned segue though.... Ahhh, book covers....not what they used to be, friends....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No sarcastic remark to be had here...just sayin'--I HAVE THIS MOVIE. Oliver Reed is in it and I watch anything (pre 1980) with him in it. He and Alan Bates are my weird retro-active Brit actor crushes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aaaghhhh--PINCH!!! INJUN SUNBURN!! How dare you steal my cap??</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the racier Harlequin Books, I'm sure....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yah, <em>some </em>girls at the club will let anybody & everybody grind up on them. Slut. Ew.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Odd book title...makes one wonder what the plot is all about. How does this cover relate? This first thing to spring to my wicked mind is : "C'mere baby, I'mma bury my banana in them melons"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Are they wielding cheese graters as weapons? Who grates gorgonzola? Well you can tell by their attire that they are idiots. PS: nonfiction factoid: I looove me some gorgonzola cheese.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was bad of me to laugh. But-yes-I did laugh. This reminds me: there needs to be a word made for meaning "laughed against my better judgement". Y'see..there are different words for different types of laughs. A "guffaw" for instance, is sort of a boisterous belly laugh. But there needs to be a laugh-verb for the type of laugh you do when you laugh against your better judgement.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not sure if "One Too Many" refers to girls or alcoholic bevvies but whatever the case I can tell by Blondie & Skunkie's overt scoffing that it has resulted in impotence.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="border: currentColor; text-align: center;">"Ohhh, if I could fly.. I'd lift YOOOU up...I'd take you into the night, and show you a love..like you'd NEVEEER SEEN.." Oopsie--my bad, that's "OUT of the Night" is it? Well, 'tis no wonder my brain went right to Soft Rock...that guy looks like an old mythical Kenny Loggins</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And THIS is precisely why I go by "Sandra" exclusively. So many distasteful connotations to "Sandy". Well, there's Annie's dog, for one. And it appears that human Sandys are even worse: loose moralled, inept buttoners.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They are SO hot right now. Not just for masochists anymore. Real Simple did a 4 page spread on Torture Gardens in their May issue, actually!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yeeah, so a lady in my office sells Avon on the side, and it doesn't seem to be half so adventurous as all this!! Either the gig has changed a lot since the 60s, or this AVON book is recruiting propaganda thinly disguised as a work of fiction..</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">OH GOODNESS!! The rohypnol wasn't supposed to wear off until we hit Mars. Take a sip of this White Russian, sweetie...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hunhh..funny. She does NOT strike me as the type that would knit sweaters for her dog.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LOVE and FURY, is it? Reeeeally? You couldn't guess it by this pair-- she looks disgusted and he just looks QUEASY</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WOW. Ummmm..words fail me. I got nothin'.</td></tr>
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