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Random Weekend: This one goes out to the Blogs I love

Same 'ol bossy behavior, new weekend.

These are blogs I have in my Bloglines. If you don't use Bloglines, you should. (Bossy) So simple to use; create an account (for free), add all of your favorite blogs (I will help you find some new ones), and then throw it up there on your bookmark bar. Bloglines tells you when there is a new post in one of your blogs, helping you keep up with all of your cyber friends. (Hurling you deeper into the abyss of the blog world, Yipee!)

Wexford Girl, Annie's Blog. The one that started it all for me and her dashing husband's blog, The Lonely Robot,
Dharam Bum, what happens when you give a man a blackBerry and blog...
Monkey Disaster, John Moe's Blog.
Lisa Mertin's Life Illustrated, Lisa's spectacular, totally not boring, sometimes has drawings of chickens, Blog.
Girl Friday, Nannette's Blog.
I Like, this is a Scottish blog from a gal named Anne, she is fantastic.
It Had Better Be Good, an Irish girl who writes about becoming a writer.
I Think I Am An Artist, Vicki's Blog, I actually know Vicki. She has a drawing of me in her latest post. I LOVE red heels.
Bing's Blog, Stanley Bing's Blog on Fortune.
Miss Cellania, links and her thoughts.
She Likes Purple, my new read.
Style Scoop, Kat at The Register's Blog.
Annie Rhiannon, Annie lives in Dublin.
There's more, but that's enough for now...
Professional reads:
The Orange County Register, Huffington Post, Slate, OC Weekly, The NYT's Laugh Lines, and The Onion.

What I am seeing, listening to and reading at the moment

Last night, we were off to see "Twelve Angry Men" at Orange County Performing Arts Center (thank you Bill and Connie). It was outstanding, but I was stumped as to why it was called "Twelve Angry Men" when really only ten of them are truly angry? It should be called "Ten Angry Men, one old man and one extremely clever and right-thinking architect who probably started taking night school classes at Abraham Lincoln University after the trial, so he could become a D.A." I guess I see now why Reginald Rose went with just "Twelve Angry Men." (and... I saw a girl wearing Crocs...to the theatre...Crocs!...I wish she were wearing these instead.)

I am listening to the delightful and happy music of Feist. Won't you join in?

I am reading "The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers."
My favorite quote so far, George Saunders, "Pay attention to everything, as if it were your last moment on earth.”
I also liked it when he used the phrase, "Star-Trekky."

Random Weekend: Some Internet Notes...One Speech-Centered Pet Peeve

It is disturbing to me that MySpace has a "Browse" option.

At some stage you have to take a stand: is Internet capitalized or not? If you are interested in this kind of thing...

My friend John sent me this stat for my blog, he works doing something related to the internet (no caps for me) and has access to this kind of information:
*highest ever rank was 3,383,853 (out of roughly 109 million 'distinct' websites)
*.000015% of the global online users have been to your blog (I really haven't a clue what any of this means really. He says it's "decent.")

The webcomic (left) is by "XKCD: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." Check it out Here.

Watch Google Map Gone Terribly Wrong Video: Here.

The Speech-Centered Pet Peeve of the week is when someone (especially twenty-somethings) use the word "actually" right before they are going to give you bad news..."Actually, your table won't be ready for another 1/2 hour"....."Actually, we won't get any more MacBook Air's in until next month"...or just simply "Actually, no." You get the idea, total abuse of the word actually. Stop it.

Random Weekend: The Oscars are coming, but so is Ira Glass.

I confess:

I have never watched the Oscars and this year will be no different. We are going to see Ira Glass: Radio Stories, at The Barclay Theatre in Irvine on Sunday instead.

I don't have anything against the Oscars, just struggle to find any interest in watching it, I guess. Between the two guys, Ira and Oscar, I would much rather spend the evening with Ira. Sorry little gold man...I think Ira would be a better listener, we girls LOVE that.

However, I did find these links that I thought were worthy of a look:

From the Soup: The Oscar Movie.

From McSweeney's Lists: Other Things There Will Be, In Addition To Blood.

Jack Black, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly singing at the Oscars: A Comedian At The Oscars.

The Los Angeles Times: The Envelope "Season of Upsets."

Test your Oscar knowledge with this: Quiz.

Maybe I will TiVo the show, just to see if I am missing anything--then I will of course, let you know what I think...like ALWAYS.

Random Weekend: This week's theme, Men

The Man Cold: Our poor guys suffer so from our lack of compassion.

Jiminy Glick interviews Steve Martin: Two of the funniest men.

Unbelievable Horse: Man and his horse.

Fighting for kisses: The primal battle of baby vs. daddy.

Steve from Coupling: The last bastion.

Men at work's "Overkill": I think Colin Hay is an insanely underrated musician. I love this song.

My husband, my favorite man.

Random Weekend: Parody Links Plus One Speech-Centered Pet Peeve

From The Onion: Mean automakers dash nation's hope for flying cars.

News Biscuit: Police to be armed with sarcasm, oh, and this one too Redundancy for man who lived each day as if it was his last.

From The Soup: iPhone.

Of Course, New Zealand's folk parody band Flight of the Conchords: Sello Tape.

This week's speech-centered pet peeve is when people say "supposebly" instead of "supposedly." Please, don't do that any more.

Random Weekend: Links Plus One Speech-Centered Pet Peeve

Office Slang: Find out the meaning of "Alpha Geek" or "Beepilepsy," my personal favorite.

Steve Job's MacWorld Speech 2008: Steve Job's 90 minute keynote speech in 60 seconds--just as good as the full version (maybe better).

Bobby Fischer Quotes: Some of the best, "Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it" or "It's just a matter of throwing in a few sacrifices, then checkmate!" Good-bye Bobby...

Gary Gulman’s Website: Gary Gulman, one of my favorite comedians, on The Craig Ferguson Show (love Craig too.)

"I Was A Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids" : Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile have written a great little book about the joys of giving up trying to be the perfect mom and embracing your inner messy linen closet.

Speech-centered Pet Peeve of the week? When people SAY "Oh, that's hysterical" and don't even bother trying to laugh-- not even a smile. For those of you who do this please see definition of Hysterical, #6 here. Now stop saying it, unless its through tears of laughter.

Random Weekend

I love this Blog, The Sartorialist. Picutres of stylish people on the streets of NYC (and sometimes Paris.) I peek in daily...

Chronical Books will let you send e-postcards with images from some of their most famous books.

"DQMOT, U R ZZZ," No idea what this text is telling you? You need AIM's Acronyms Dictionary, so you will know whether to SFETE or, well, not SFETE. I still think LOL should mean Lots of Love. **I have a terrifying story about my misinterpretation of LOL which involves an email from my old, Lou-Grant -grumpy, boss. I'll tell it to you sometime.**

From the A.V. Club Website (which rules): Movies & lyrics: 19 movies anchored by a single artist’s songs.

Craving Anthropologie, just so you know, you aren't the only one...

Random Weekend: Really, Totally Random

Use one word from each column to create the perfect insult: Shakespear Insult Kit.

Tour some of the most tragic European Designs of the 1970's: Eurobad '74.

Another way to go...baby announcements by Rattle-N-Roll: Custom baby announcements.

As if you need more Product: Product Girl.

Which kitten is cuter? You decide at: Kitten War.

Almost Twins: High-Five Hollywood. You have to watch this carefully for the Starbucks burn (Yeah! Coffee Bean!)

Random Weekend: You Grew-up in the 70's, plus one retro speech-centered pet peeve.

You had a pair of these Roller Skates.

With the pom poms...

and you got back together with your seventh-grade boyfriend when it was girls-ask-boys to skate, and they played "Reunited" by Peaches & Herb.

You had a cool older brother. My brother Rob had a 1972 pea-green Plymouth Duster. This is the only picture I have of him with it. Those 110 cameras took THE worst pictures.

I guarantee that is a Sex Wax T-shirt tied around his waist and this is the eight track that was in his player.

(ELO, Telephone Line. Still a great song. It is also my default ringtone on my iPhone "Hello. How Are You? Have you been alright...")

You remember these commercials: The Tootsie Pop Owl and this Coke one used to mesmerize young me.

You score 100% on this 1970's TV Quiz.

You idolized Mary. Linking to myself, again, You're Going To Make It After All.

These songs made you cry everytime you heard them.
Terry Jacks "Seasons In The Sun (young man dies)", Henry Gross' "Shannon (dog dies)", Eric Carmen's "All By Myself, (whole family dies)", Michael Murphy's "Wildfire (horse dies then girlfriend dies)", Don McLean’s "Vincent (artist dies)"

And you LOVED Ponch from CHiPs, (thanks for the tip Joey) and this is your favorite scene:

(Poncharello competes in a "battle of the bands". He loses, but gives his thumbs up at the end anyway, very classy.)

If any of these are true of you, please consult Retro Junk, Plaid Stallion, and Pink Floyd's Fan Club Page.

The speech-centered pet peeve from the 70's was when my Aunt would use the phrase "Freaked-Out." It freaked me out.

Bunnies, Link Sunday

I love rabbits. So much, the only comment my friend's husband had after walking through our house was, "What's with the bunnies?"

I just think they are inexpressively cute. That is really my only explanation. My only defense is there are other people out there who love them too. Happy Link Sunday.

** Fifi is a bunny's website. All the bunnies dress like runway models, and I am sure are highly compensated for what they do.

**One of the most famous of all Rabbits, The White Rabbit, of Alice in Wonderland, can have his entire story, along with Alice of course, downloaded free on iTunes (free I say.) It is fun to hear the story this way. Search "Storynory" on iTunes. My daughter love it.

**I bought Em this necklace from Little Put Books on Etsy.

Okay, fine! I got one for myself too.

**I just had to like Dana and her site Aqua Rabbit. With a "Why" like that, how can we not be friends?

(do-it-yourself field guides, $225. I want...)

**Placed under the heading, "There is a website for figgin' everything," Cute Overload.

**I did this post on some bunnies around Orange County, here.

**Rabbits hop around everywhere in literature and movies.
The brave bunnies of Watership Down are some of my favorites.

If you haven't read this book I will lend it to you, so great.

And of course, there is my bunny, Peter Rabbit.

I could just go on and on, but I can see by the way you are fidgeting in your seat and your eyelids are closing at a slower and slower pace, I am boring you (and making some of you lose whatever small opinion you had of me.) So I will stop.

I know, tomorrow when I see my friends, they will say, "Very interesting blog about the bunnies," sarcastically of course. Link Sunday can be brutal.

Random Weekend: Ode to the Housewife

On Sundays I am going to take a cue from one of my favorite blogs (Rocks In My Dryer) and just give you some links.

First addition:

Ode to the housewife:

The Humble Housewife, is a food blog written by a very talented Irish Mom. I am trying her Spiced Pumpkin Bundt Cake this Thanksgiving.

This from a magazine article, 1955, The Good Wife's Guide.

McSweeney's list: Phrases commonly used by 1950s housewives that were often misinterpreted by housewives' husbands as blatant requests for sex.

My girlfriend, Robin, taught me how to fold a t-shirt while we were in a laundromat in San Francisco. I still do it the way she taught me, but this is a good way too, "How to fold a t-shirt", Japanese-style.

Though I LOVE Martha, I am not A Martha, here is a Meatloaf recipe for "the rest of us," The Anti-Martha Stewart Meatloaf recipe. (Totally going to try this)

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My Favorite Housewife

I love this blog, lots of tips that I don't ever use, but still think are clever and hope to someday Geeky Housewife.

From TV Squad: The seven hottest animated housewives.

The Martha Stewart Show, where she shows how to make "knitted" marzipan decorations: Click here to view something that will never, in a million years, happen at my house, mostly because I have no clue what marzipan is and the thought of knitting makes me want to cry.

Disgruntaled Housewife's Cocktail Lounge