It's the worst day of the worst job of the worst summer of my teenage years.

 Let's go back a month or so.

 I was 16.  It was the Bicentennial 1976.   I had a great, easypeasy job as a lifeguard at a private pool at a housing development at… Read full post »

My local movie house is doing a film series called "The Films of My Life", ala François Truffaut's "The Films in My Life".  To quote the cinema's website:  "This series emphasizes the emotional connection between the participants and the works they select."  

  &n… Read full post »

I grew up reading the classics.  Ma made sure of that.  Well, she had them on her bookshelf.  And thence I  trod.  But when poetry is twined with music or movies or both - then I really feel it.

Who can forget the end of Sophie's Choice?  That poem by… Read full post »

Going to Kansas City!

Kansas City, here I come!      &nb… Read full post »

 Well, last night we went to see "Earth", the 99-minute pseudo compilation via Disney of an epic BBC work called Planet Earth from… Read full post »

SO, this is the kinda fun you're having when not running a restaurant (or terrorizing Glens)?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWU0bfo-bSY Read full post »

1.  I love music.

2.  I love writing, reading, and, hopefully, creating, via the written word.

3.  Law, Politics - and, within them, the everpresent Words - are seminal to my existence.

 4.  I love to play.  I love… Read full post »

                     Escape from Mundanity

So it's a Beauty day on the Bay, after multiple days of pounding rain.  I figure, Gee, it's going to be easy to get to Las Vegas!

I w… Read full post »

                      Yeah, it's the old P-BEM!

                        &n… Read full post »

 Stop Smiling is this wonderful magazine I've been hooked up with for a couple years now.

 I couldn't figure out how to insert a doc or a .pdf or any damn thing into email, so I'll post this for/to the Chicagoans who might be able to attend:

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I like Sky.  Always have.  Everwhere I go, I'm shooting the sky, for one reason or another.

Big ol' comforting mountains, north of Durango, last July. 

                 &nbs… Read full post »

As you may remember, I traveled to Vegas Alone in February because the Children would not behave.    http://open.salon.com/blog/conniemack/2009/02/25/its_vegas_baby

They're again off in April (why don't the teachers want to Teach?) and I'm torn.  Should I re-do the Vegas route - w… Read full post »

So, I'm over to the Farmer's Market - you know the one a couple of blocks behind your office,

Get me some wasabi almonds, some hickory almonds, some… Read full post »

Inspired by Hyblaean earlier today, I must share something a supervisor shared with me  (it's gonna be on a Big screen at his retirement party).  The song is from "Jerry Springer, The Opera" (who knew?), and the vidmix is exhilarating:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cMD4p2HfEo&fe… Read full post »

It Came!  I ordered in on Monday and it Came yesterday! 

Oh, wait, that's not my butt!

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Here's a little sumpin-sumpin I added on:

 And finally, the OS mousepad, in situ:

I think we'll just skip the whole butt query,… Read full post »

Cacao (Theobroma cacao) (Mayan: kakaw, Nahuatl: Cacahuatl), or the cocoa plant, is a small (4–8 m or 15–26 ft tall) evergreen tree in the family Sterculiaceae (alternatively Malvaceae), native to the deep tropical region of the Americas. [source - Wiki]

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All's… Read full post »

   or...

 So I'm reading some tax code junk, some policy behind the Investment Company Act (I swear, it's for work; Updike this is not... and yet....) and I have to go t0:

§ 80a–43. Jurisdiction of offenses and suits

and I… Read full post »

Subject:
New Presidential Candidate... It's someone we know!

Hi,

There's an effort to elect an unknown random person as President... and it's someone we know! Watch this online video about the surprising new nominee:

http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=369228&altf=Dpoojf&altl=Nbdl

Jo… Read full post »

 For those of you in the ShiKaGo (Chicago) area a couple of days after St. Pat's Day, here's a cool party.  Free drinks!  Complimentary copies of the new issue!  7 - 9 p.m.  To attend, email:  rsvp@stopsmilingonline.com.

 I dunno if that rsvp thingie a… Read full post »

I'm all for the Truthiness Doctrine.

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However....

Two Truths/One Lie:

1.  I first flew a plane at age 18.

2.  I had a small character based on me in a mystery novel set in Key West.

3.  I was once clinically dead for 3.7 minutes. Read full post »

 I've been going crazy because this site won't let me post pics from my Olympus camera, via any of my three laptops, my PC, etc.  It did at the very beginning, and then it stopped.  I can't figure that one out yet.  But, as I found today, it will accept pics… Read full post »

So, yeah, that line ain't working for me now.  The girls just roll their eyes and say, Mmm-hmmmm.....

 Nutshell:

 Went home to Kansas weekend before last for my Dad's 80th Birthday Party, which I was hosting.  My girls and I flew in Thursday afternoon.  The party was Friday e… Read full post »

I Completely friggin forgot, but I was driving the girls to their dad's in Carson City and found this bead store in a strip mall:

 Look, it's Umber!

They have a Plethora of Beads!

My oldest:  "What?"

I said, Oh, her handle is Umbrellakinesis.  You know.  And… Read full post »

Y'all know my predilection by now for sound, and mu… Read full post »

                       MCMLXXVII

Here I am, with the only two people who ever understood me... or forgave me~!

Hangin' at the Botanical

@ Lincoln's Birthday Pa… Read full post »