G-Dog and I went to our favorite auction last night (Emmie’s posted about it before). It’s a monthly event, with food, wine, and all sorts of treasures — some that are quite unexpected. We go whenever we can. Sometimes we find something to bid on, but mostly we’re just there to take it all in. Here are a few photos from this weekend’s fun (this time around, we ended up with a set of Waverley novels and a chair/ottoman for the study)…
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Here’s a real hodgepodge from the past week!
• And you thought Episode I was bad? Check out an early draft of the original Star Wars.
• These two girls totally outdo Robert Loggia and Tom Hanks, but then again, they’re not supposedly improvising.
• Things disappear! Like the Aral Sea and the Amazon Rainforest — and beyond that, farms sink!
• Food from around the world: in hospitals and in schools (and speaking of school lunches, there’s this too)!
• How much do we love to defend marriage?? Oh, so much that the fun overflowed from one video into another! Also, we like to mock Pat Robertson with beautiful music videos.
• In medical and curing blindness news, this is really awesome.
• Do you like to have pictures with your data? Something to make it seem less dry and less science-y? Then you’re going to like these sites.
• Did you have a video made of your wedding? If so, it’s going to seem so incredibly lame after you watch this one.
• Watch out, all you greedy, overbearing religious cult-like groups! Scientology has Scientologists have been banned, and those awful Mormons have been taken down another notch. Ha.
• Attention Ferris Fans! Cameron’s home is for sale!
• And finally, some quotes for the week (we’ll start with the icky and work our way to the more reasonable):
Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something, or just before she’s going to menstruate.
– G. Gordon Liddy, troglodyte, doing an awfully good job of making the other neanderthals of his ilk look almost human by comparison. (Update: and there’s always the problem of bears.)
Honestly folks. If we paid as much attention to the sexual activities of Catholic priests as we do to homosexuals wanting to marry, we probably could have saved a lot of children from years of guilt, shame, anger and pain.
Well, keep your fingers crossed, folks! If the forecast holds, this will be the first weekend this month in which we will not be socked in by the rain. Hopefully, we’ll finally get to start getting the yard cleaned up…
In the meantime, look who flew into my flower photo (and check out the other creatures on the ark)! Have a great weekend!
First of all, here’s how to say it: Sonia Sotomayor (when you get there, click the play button to listen).
Did you know that Sonia Sotomayor will be the first Type 1 Diabetic to sit on the Supreme Court? Paige points us to some clarifying thoughts from Amy with regard to Sotomayor’s diabetes.
Here’s some video of the nom if you missed it (along with some other tidbits from around the web).
Are Republicans circling to hit the iceberg again?
And finally, this is yet another good thing.
I’ve got two videos to share with regard to the California Supreme Court’s ruling on Proposition 8 today. It was, of course, extremely disappointing (though the news is not all bad). I don’t understand what’s happened in California — it used to be a cutting edge/frontier kind of place. Kooky sometimes, but generally leading the rest of us in the right direction. Somehow, though, it’s become an atavistic, mean-spirited place, run by mob rule and led by old fogeys who have the state teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. It’s been a sad transformation to watch.
Anyway, this first video comes from France and is not Prop 8 related, but it expresses an appropriate, though visceral, response to the day’s events. Don’t play it if you have an aversion to the f-bomb. The music is from Lily Allen.
And after that bit of venting, here’s a video that’s a little more level-headed in its response, looking toward the next battle, which, of course, is preferable to spending too much time agonizing over today’s decision (the music is from Regina Spektor). (Also, sign on to the campaign — especially if you’re in CA!)
Well, it did rain on and off all weekend, but the sun came out long enough in the middle of the day on Monday for us to fire up the grill. We had some yummy food and then the rain started up again, so we had some indoor (and retro) fun for the rest of the afternoon. It was a quiet, relaxing day, and not once did I hear a “Happy Memorial Day.”
Here are just a few cool tidbits that might not have crossed your radar in the past week…
• Have you been to Awkward Family Photos yet? The offerings there range from the hilarious and the spooky to the downright creepy! UPDATE: and the oh, so patriotic!
• Elsa Barnouw has lived for 90 years in the same NYC apartment.
• Ellen Degeneres gave a fantabulous graduation speech at Tulane.
• Emmie’s got some wanderlust.
• This is so freakin’ cool if you’re into history, architecture, or lifestyles of the powerful and famous: tour the White House — the current one, or historical versions (and the East and West Wings). I could spend hours here!
• How much space does your commute take up?
• Jon Stewart on the back-and-forth between Obama and Cheney.
• And the Quote of the Week, from Ron Reagan, the son of Rush Limbaugh’s greatest hero:
Limbaugh hasn’t had a natural erection since the Nixon Administration; think he’s compensating for something? Now, I wouldn’t pick on him for any of this stuff, not his blubbiness, not his man-boobs, not his inability to have a natural erection—none of that stuff—to me, off limits until! until! Mr. Limbaugh, you turn that sort of gun on somebody else—once you start doing that, you’re fair game, fat boy. Absolutely, you jiggly pile of mess. You’re just fair game, and you’re going to get it, too.
It’s hard to believe, but the forecast is calling for yet another rainy weekend here in Chattanooga (though there’s some hope for the holiday on Monday). It’s rained every single weekend so far this month. I do wish some of it would come during the week, but other than that, I’m not going to complain too much. We really do need the rain after the last several years of drought.
Anyway, back at the beginning of the month, I was out near the mall on a rainy day and found this goose wandering about in a parking lot. She/he didn’t seem to be in any kind of a hurry. Just hanging out, taking in the scenery (which included some crazy lady with a camera).
Have a great holiday weekend, everyone! Be safe and happy, and don’t forget the week’s critters!
Hello! I'm Alice, which is my real name (most of the other names here have been changed, though, to protect the innocent). I live in an almost-100-year-old house in downtown Chattanooga, TN with my first husband, G-Dog (who is from New Canaan, CT), and a cockapoo named Nonnie (the moniker comes from a Laurens van der Post book). We have one kid (that we know of) -- a daughter, Emmie, who plays a supporting role on the blog. She's off being a student, but she pops in often enough to keep things interesting.
I originally hale from Batavia, NY, a quiet little town in rural western New York. G-Dog and I met while attending college in Carlisle, PA, and then moved on to Chapel Hill, NC together before finally settling in Tennessee. Other places we've lived in long enough to have a mailing address include London and San Francisco.
This blog is about a lot of things -- the places I visit, things I cook, people I meet, photos I take, things I read, and -- of course, politics. I'm an unrepentant, arugula-eating, progressive, liberal, lefty, euro-loving, educated elitist and I'm looking forward to an administration that doesn't raise my blood pressure quite as often as the outgoing one did...
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