Duct Tape Prom Dress Contest

Today, when I heard about this contest,  I was immediately taken with the idea.  I had visions of a series of silver dresses–a surreal space age look repeated in different shapes.  Well, I couldn’t have been more wrong.  These students conjured up some of the most smashing outfits out of the most mundane beginnings–rolls of duct tape.  Vote for your favorite in this [...]

Cute Comcast Commercial

 
Recently, Comcast started airing a selection of commercials that are very cute.  The musical diddy that cements the various sections of the ad is just the right kind of monotone that gets in your head. 
I have yet to memorize the various words that tweak the multiple versions, but the tune keeps repeating itself over and over in my [...]

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

Cold and beautiful.  Those two adjectives could apply to many things–a physically beautiful person, an Arctic glacier, or even a tall drink of ice water on a stifling summer day.  In this instance, it applies to the shockingingly cold weather we are experiencing, and, the stunning blue skies that came along for the ride.   
The first [...]

Rush Limbaugh is Disgusting

There.  I said it.  Holding my tongue is no longer an option.  Rush Limbaugh has always been a particularly annoying part of the landscape that I have managed to edit from my life by simply turning the channel.  This time, though, I feel as if I have to speak out against his attitude and his place [...]

Cloris Leachman Has Made it, Baby

The check out line brought the best laugh of the day today.  Forget the Oscars and the Emmy’s.  One of the tabloid magazines has Cloris Leachman on the cover.  Dancing with the Stars has brought her a boat load of attention.  A talented actress who, the best one can say, has not been a major player for [...]

Jumping from the Frying Pan into the Fire….

After having been inundated with phone calls from political candidates, their supporters and national polling organizations for the past two weeks, the end of this election could not come soon enough for me.  Last evening as I was once again muting the television during commercial breaks, (listening to one more diatribe about the supposed faults of a myriad of [...]

Political Ad Break

Day blends into night as the final push begins… 

to ignore the incessant political rhetoric.  All usual sources of refuge are filled with political ads, debates, and not-so-polite name calling and mud slinging.

The usual options are temporarily closed.  In a gesture of defiance, the radio and TV are turned off.  The newspapers have been quickly scanned.  Anything political has been selectively deleted [...]

Bumper Snickers

The election rhetoric has reached the point where any sane individual turns the sound down (or off).  Fever pitch electioneering seems to have overtaken every conversation within earshot.  With that backdrop in mind, seeing this bumper sticker today seemed like the perfect antidote:

Introducing the gentleman owner:

Had to share the parting shot on the rear bumper….

First Commercial Cell Phone Call

October 13, 1983.  25 years ago today, the first commercial cell phone call was made.  The man who made the call was the president of the manufacturing company.  The recipient of the call was the grandson of Alexander Graham Bell. 
Only 25 years from a phone the size of your head to what we have today.  What a [...]

O.J. Simpson’s Unlucky 13

Talk about Karma.  O.J. simpson was found guilty yesterday.  His most recent legal entanglements came to this conclusion, amazingly and dramatically, on the 13th anniversary of his acquittal for the murder of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson.
As someone who believed he was guilty of murdering her and her friend, the timing of this verdict adds credence to theory that there really [...]