Kathy Riordan
- Location
- Florida, United States
- Birthday
- April 27
- Bio
- One woman's view of life and the universe.
Follow @katriord on Twitter. Some nice people have said some incredibly nice things about me, which I appreciate, including being called "The mayor of Twitter" (@palafo), "The Queen of Twitter" (@lizadonnelly), "One of the funniest women on the planet" (@LATimestot), and "A friend to many" (@BillGatesZune).
MY RECENT COMMENTS
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analysis.”
11:13PM - “Final over on the east
coast, but I won't spoil it
for west
coasters.”
11:11PM - “Final over on the east
coast, but I won't spoil it
for west
coasters.”
11:10PM - “Yowza!”
10:46PM - “Gripping and eloquent.
Thanks for sharing this
here.”
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Kathy Riordan's Links
- New to Open Salon?
- Introduction to Some Great Reads on Open Salon
- Where I've been, where I'm going:
- Paris
- Under a New Mexico Sky
- Casting the Movie of My Life
- Muffin
- Sagebrush and Funeral Potatoes
- Saying Goodbye to Summer at the Cottage
- Twitter from the Inside:
- Twitter Is What You Make It: Who to Follow, and Why
- Posts on World War II:
- Honoring My Soldiers, My Heroes on Veterans Day
- Letter from an American World War II Soldier to His Parents
- On the 65th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden
- Tom Hanks to Bring "Beyond All Boundaries" to WWII Museum
- Some of my work on Iran:
- Iran Fabricates Interpol Involvement in Neda Investigation
- Doctor Claims to Identify Neda's Killer
- Doctor in Neda Video Arrives Safely in London
- Not that Neda: How the Wrong Photo Became an Icon
- Updates on Neda, Symbol of a Revolution
- Her Name Was Neda
- Some of my favorite posts:
- When Mayo Clinic Speaks, I Listen
- Incognito in Istanbul
- Such a Death
- I also write here:
- In My Life
- Journeys
Since ABC's Dancing With the Stars, the spinoff of Britain's 'Strictly Come Dancing,' first debuted to American audiences in June 2005, it has delivered many unforgettable moments, from wardrobe malfunctions to trippy slips to ambulance rides. The drama on the dance floor has ranged from the s… Read full post »
*Home sales were up a surprising, unexpected 10.1% in October,… Read full post »
The call has gone out to find the sexiest men living as Salon embarks on its annual quest of the same, and our standards were high--the men had to be smart, sophisticated, savvy, talented, well educated, sensitive, philanthropic, generous of heart and spirit, and all around good guys. If they w… Read full post »
Donny Osmond stumbled badly in the tango, his first dance of three on Dancing With the Stars Monday evening, but ever the professional, managed to come back stronger than ever in a very personal purple samba to his childhood Osmonds hit, "One Bad Apple."
Actually, it was a pretty short line.
Last year, the first thing we did upon arriving in Florida after a summer in Wisconsin and long drive south was head for the polling booths, anticipating long waits for the US presidential election. And there were waits, of about three hours, but… Read full post »
24-year-old Orianthi Panagaris, the lead guitarist for Michael Jackson's "This Is It. "
If you found yourself in a theater watching the much hyped Michael Jackson concert rehearsal film, This Is It, as I did last night in Nashville, you likely found a happy surprise tucked inside… Read full post »
So is this the show now or is this a rerun?
Rerun.
When is the real show gonna come on?
Twenty minutes.
Oh.
Wow glad I ate first.
Yeah.
What did I miss?
They're making dinners based on TV shows.
Oh.
This one's doing Flintstones. Pebbles and Bam-Bam.
Oh.… Read full post »
Hot off the presses, Hot Mormon Muffins: A Taste of Motherhood, just in time for Foodie Tuesday:
The calendar, featuring twelve Mormon women in vintage poses, comes complete with muffin recipes. . .in case the vintage poses don't do it for you.
On the Web: &n… Read full post »
Where's Tom DeLay when you need him?
Monday night all of the remaining couples on ABC's Dancing With the Stars faced off in a traditional ballroom style competition, doing a four-minute mambo marathon with couples being tapped out in succession until only one couple remained on the dance floor.… Read full post »
If you checked the White House's Flickr site early this morning, you found out why famed Vanity Fair photographer Annie Leibovitz has been spending so much time at the White House lately.
President Barack Obama, Sasha Obama, First Lady
Michelle Obama, and Malia Obama, in the Green Room… Read full post »
Thank God I didn't marry you.
You were too quirky, even though you were smart. And funny. And I was never bored. Your leg wouldn't hold still. You were a runner. I can't do runners. You overthought everything. Our timing was off. Yo… Read full post »
Iran's Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khamenei addresses a crowd in Iran in a recent photo from the Supreme Leader's official website. Reports have been swirling around the media and the Internet in recent days that Khamenei is either gravely ill, or has died, but have not been substan… Read full post »
The only other person I knew who'd been on the Orient Express bought a sterling silver cigarette holder as a prop for the occasion.
I remember hearing this over champagne cocktails in the Pump Room in Chicago one flickery night.
A sterling silver cigarette holder.
It seemed appropr… Read full post »
I've pondered frequently since Michael Jackson's unexpected death earlier this summer that he must have known he didn't have long to live.
I happen to be one of those who believes he didn't expect to even make it through the tour.
Did he have any idea when he sat down back… Read full post »
Predictably, every year at least one person, on finding out I live in Florida, says something like, "But don't you miss the four seasons?"
Of course, those people don't realize that a summer in Wisconsin can include all four seasons. Autumn arrived a couple of weeks ago, and close on its… Read full post »
SLC International Airport, Salt Lake City, Utah, one of the first things I saw the morning Matthew Shepard died.
It was a route I'd flown countless times. SLC-MSP. Salt Lake City to Minneapolis. I thought nothing of it.
The day before… Read full post »
Chicago's Olympic wishes have been dashed, after being eliminated in the first round of voting against Madrid, Tokyo and Rio.
Despite pitches by President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle in Copenhagen Friday, and heavy lobbying by the Chicago continge… Read full post »
Seven years after her abduction at knifepoint from her Salt Lake City home, Elizabeth Smart, 21, took the witness stand Thursday in a Utah courtroom against her accused kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell.
Smart was only fourteen in June 2002 when she was kidnapped by Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee,… Read full post »
Australian film director Baz Luhrmann, who took over the paddles from head judge Len Goodman Monday and Tuesday night on ABC's Dancing With the Stars. Luhrmann's film "Strictly Ballroom" was the inspiration for the reality TV show and its British counterpart. (photo courtes… Read full post »
Elizabeth Smart Cleared to Testify Against Mitchell Thursday
A Utah judge has cleared the way for Elizabeth Smart, now 21, to testify against the man who kidnapped her as a teenager seven years ago. Smart will testify against Brian David Mitchell Thurday morning in a Utah courtroom.
Elizabeth Smart, the 21-year-old young woman from U… Read full post »
The Secret Service got an assist from a Southern California blogger at 'The Political Carnival' on Sunday when she tipped them off to a poll on Facebook asking whether President Obama should be killed.
GottaLaff broke the story online Sunday when she discovered the 'Obama Death Poll' on Fa… Read full post »
I've watched with interest in the months since I joined Twitter as one news organization after another, and one celebrity after another, has gotten Twitter wrong.
I've seen it characterized as "tweeting one's oatmeal" more often than I've seen it credited for bringing anything ser… Read full post »
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