Remember that Open Salon Open Call about Jon & Kate from a few months back where we were asked to opine about what their big announcement would be?

Well, I predicted it would be pretty close to what apparently is actually going to happen.  Now I'm thinking some studio exec… Read full post »

The National Guard has been called out. The NTSB is on the case. Full coverage on CNN and MSNBC with helicopters and follow vehicles and countless other stations and news bureaus too. All about a mylar balloon and a missing boy.

I'm very sorry for the missing boy and… Read full post »

Here’s a dilemna most men never have. What to call themselves.

I had my birth name/maiden name for roughly 24 years. Then I took my first husband’s name. When we divorced and I took my old name back as fast as I could.

Then I got married again and took… Read full post »

Changes Affect Testimonial Advertisements, Bloggers, Celebrity Endorsements

The Fede… Read full post »

I need a break from hard news. It's so depressing. Health care reform, the war in Afghanistan, the dip in the consumer confidence index to 53.1 announced today, the fact that the majority of americans aren't eating enough fruits and vegetables (also released today), a memoir from Sarah Pali… Read full post »

For the 2009/2010 season: $60,263,904!

This is one of the reasons I've come to love (and at times despise) Twitter. For the randomness of things that catch my eye and the way I can be pulled in unexpected directions just by a silly little tweet.

Like just now, I was actually… Read full post »

I'm here today to say, unabashedly, that the Rachel Zoe Project is the worst thing that has ever happened to TV and possibly to western civilization. Her sudden appearance and meteoric rise as the go-to stylist to the stars is a solid indication that we may be destined to witness the d… Read full post »

I understand that frequent posting here is important and an essential component of OS decorum. Forgive me. As you know, life gets in the way. Kids, dogs, home upkeep and finances get in the way. My paying job gets in the way. I get in my way.

So much has happened in… Read full post »

Last night I wrote about a tragedy that took place in my town the other day. A family of five was literally ripped apart when their apartment exploded. The 27-year-old mother died.  The 30-year-old father is in critical condition at UC Davis. Three children, aged 12, 7 & an infant less… Read full post »

A 27 year old wife and mother of 3 died yesterday after succumbing to injuries from an explosion at her apartment in Truckee. Her husband is in critical condition; all three children, one a newborn barely two weeks old, are in stable condition. To let OS's know about the hist… Read full post »

Yesterday, a three judge panel in California ruled that the Department of Corrections must release 40,591 prisoners from the system due to substandard medical and mental health care and severely overcrowded conditions.

California's prison system is operating at 190 percent… Read full post »

 

The summer of 1968 in Ohio was stifling hot and seemed to last forever… Read full post »

Oregon’s House of Representatives voted June 29th to legalize the cultivation of hemp, joining North Dakota, Maine, Vermont, West Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky and Montana in lifting barriers on its production. In all, fifteen states have passed some form of legislation rela… Read full post »

 Blog posts are eastern time ...it's still August 1 in California

25 minutes of 1981 Dead from Germany. I picked it because it's Estimated Prophet into He's Gone...I mean do I need to explain?

Just take the time and enjoy.

Because it's Jerry's Birthday.  And if you don't mind… Read full post »

If I hadn't googled myself, I wouldn't have discovered that my post from last week had become the subject of a blog post and ensuing discussion on Mothertalkers.com.

What surprised me most was the number of comments (29) it generated and their length.

In general, the commenters didn't agree wit… Read full post »

I was startled out of complacency yesterday as I listened to a story about dolphin slaughter in Japan on Terry Gross' NPR program Fresh Air.

"The Cove" directed by Louie Psihoyos, won an Audience Award at Sundance early this year, but is just now cracking the mainstream and will surely… Read full post »

There we sat in the Wanderlust Festival VIP lounge looking out at the majestic peaks of Squaw Valley rising around us, sipping cold beer and chillin' for a bit when all of the sudden in walks Adrian Grenier.

If you don't know who Grenier is, you're probably a little… Read full post »

Last night I watched the re-broadcast of Walter Cronkite's historic coverage of the moon landing in 1969 and became blubberingly nostalgic for the technologically uncluttered days of my youth. The simplicity of a man sitting at a desk reporting the news while looking straight into the camera is… Read full post »