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I’d Stand Up and Punch Them Out

July 22, 2008 · 2 Comments

I have been busy with working, at the real workplace and also on a fall fashion project I took on to allow myself to indulge in fall fashion. (Actually, that’s a lie; the freelance cash is all going toward a cleaning service, which will improve my life exponentially.)

Other things that have been happening, which may or may not have been Twittered about already, I can’t remember:

–Scott did his final presentation of his thesis, which went well — now it’s just a matter of collecting his diploma, but he’s done with his masters. The same day, I got an unexpected promotion at work. We went out to a fancy restaurant to celebrate, and aside from the wine list and skanky Tila-Tequila lookalike sitting next to us, it was awful. The only food I enjoyed the whole night was the cheese plate … and that was “dessert.”

–I planned a whole big surprise for Scott, involving secret instructions and a mysterious 5:30 p.m. “appointment” … it was really tickets to see ‘The Dark Knight’ in iMax, but I made it seem like a much bigger deal. At the prescribed time when he was supposed to leave work and meet me, he discovered his car had been broken into (which was not, as BetheBoy suggested and Scott momentarily thought, actually the surprise). Stereo was gone, cell phone was gone. We filed a police report, bought him a new cell phone, and missed the movie. Of course making the insurance claim is more costly than replacing everything outright. We might be getting ahead, but it’s in fits and starts.

–I didn’t really think Christian Bale was hot until I read that he roughed up his mom. Now that is what I call hot.

–I caught a sinus infection. Am now on antibiotics.

–My Dad’s birthday is on Thursday. It’s pretty much a guarantee around any holiday or celebration that when I ask him what he’d like, he’ll say nothing, and then I get him movie passes. This time, I suggested that maybe I’d make him a mix CD, and either I’d pick songs for him (I was thinking hits from ‘74 and ‘77, the years his kids were born), but he asked if he could send me a list of songs. He listens to the radio at work and writes down the song title and artist of anything he hears that he likes, so of course I said yes, and this list, it seriously makes me want to squeeze him so hard — it’s adorable. Actually, let’s put it this way: I now know that my love of Fergie, Pink, Liz Phair and Fontella Bass is at least partially genetic.

I think that’s all. More regular updates to resume once freelance gig is put to bed. But, in the meantime, if you’re bored, here are some other articles I’ve written recently: some advice about having sex after you have kids, some advice about being a good stepmom, and some really cheap ways to give gifts.

Oh, and one more thing … where does this little corner of the Internet come down on current Wired cover-girl Julia Allison? I, for one, am very pro, for no other reason than I have a soft spot for the media savvy, those people who take magazines and the internet and even wee little bloggers like me and wrap them around their pinkies (I also have a secret love for Heidi and Spencer, having never seen an episode of ‘The Hills’ — those photos of them with guns were straight out of ‘Glamorama’). Anyway. Love? Hate? Never heard of her?

Categories: Daily · Elsewhere · Us

Other Crap I’ve Written Recently

February 9, 2008 · 3 Comments

Best 8(15) Episodes of ‘Lost’
I like ‘Lost,’ a lot, but this took a crazy amount of time and research to pull together. And even after doing all that research, I’ve got no bloody idea what’s going on.

IFLTS: ‘The General Specific,’ by Band of Horses
I fear Scott is going to throw both iPods and the Apple TV off the balcony if I play this song one more time. I would be sad but unsurprised. I am P-U-S-H-I-N-G it with this one.

Live Blogging: Super Bowl Ads
Clearly, I enjoy live blogging. Doing it for Fan House — where there’s an amazingly active community of commenters talking back to you, real-time, was pretty damn fun.

Other Things There Will Be, In Addition to Blood
This is a gimme.

Also, I bet Scott wishes he had taken this bet. You could’ve been $20 richer, huzzie! (No, I don’t call him ‘huzzie regularly; in fact, I’ve never used that word before, but I might start now.)

Categories: Elsewhere

What the Moral of the Back Story Could Be

November 26, 2007 · 2 Comments

So, it’s obviously been a long time since I’ve written to the Colonel, but I feel like this time — this time, at least — I’ve kind of got an excuse (hello, wedding!). And, in the interest of full disclosure, this post will probably be followed by another long drought.

Two things happened in the past five weeks that I felt like I should mention.

First, an ad exec from Young & Rubicam contacted me about this video, which is of my mother, celebrating a gift she received last Christmas. Y&R was interested in using part of it for a holiday ad campaign for Sears. I’m told that if you watch certain channels right now, particularly TBS and Lifetime, you will on occasion see my mother in this Sears ad (I have yet to see it). The best part is, they issued her a SAG card, and she gets residual checks, and she has turned into a total diva. And also, she keeps talking about how the strike is affecting her paychecks, and no matter how many times I explain to her that NO IT ISN’T, she will not listen.

The other thing that happened, which is even cooler, is that Glam.com asked me to appear in a new Web show they were launching, called The Hot Pink List. I spent a day in NYC on set, taping my comments and waiting for Eve — who was also on the show — to arrive. Eventually, I had to leave to catch the train back to DC, and I crossed paths with Eve in the elevator. Because, you know, that’s how I roll these days … sharing elevators with celebrities (NO I DON’T). Anyway — being on set, taping in front of cameras, in front of a green screen, telling snarky jokes and then hearing directors and producers and sound guys try not to laugh, getting miked up and burping a lot — it was among the top five most fun days of my life. Amazing to experience, and just crazy fun. If you feel like watching, here’s Part I and Part II of the movies list. The TV and Music lists haven’t launched yet, but I love myself so I’ll post them when they do.

So, yeah, it’s been an interesting five weeks. And in less than two weeks, I’ll be a Mrs. Busy times. More sooner or later.

XOXO,
Not Gossip Girl

Categories: Daily · Elsewhere

Another Mini-Piece Up at Spinner.com

August 15, 2007 · 2 Comments

Ahem.

Backslash end shameless self-promotion.

Categories: Elsewhere

Momentary Soapboxing

August 4, 2007 · No Comments

So I think a lot of people sort of know, by now, that I currently write for two blogs; this personal all-about-me blog, and a really cool corporate blog; and anytime I’m leading the charge on the corporate blog, the front yard of this blog tends to get a little overrun with weeds. That kind of happened this week, and sometimes that’s a bummer, but this week I wrote one of my favorite posts ever on the corporate blog, so I don’t mind so much. That post is essentially a legitimate conversation I found myself having with a friend over drinks the night before, and it made me realize that blogging for (part of) a living and having that kind of freedom is pretty nice, even if the other corporate people probably wish I’d lay off the animal clips a little bit. But anyway, a big part of the corporate blog is me, and my voice, so if you like it here, perhaps you will like it there. That is all.

Categories: Elsewhere

Me, Elsewhere

April 10, 2007 · 4 Comments

Sometimes I write things in other places, with my actual real name attached and stuff (which was partly the reason I restarted this site, on the up-and-up honest-to-Betsy with my real name and such — and also partly not the reason at all.) So, anyway, here are a few of those things.

IFLTS: Regina Spektor, ‘Fidelity’ (In my defense, I didn’t choose the photo. Sorry, Regina.)

Other Poll Questions That May One Day Appear on an Unnamed Internet News Website, Given Its Recently Asked Question “Have You Ever Been in an Accident Involving a Plane?” Following the Air France Crash (cowritten with my dearest friend, the Tracey, on a day when we suspect that John Warner was on vacation, or napping, or telling impoverished children Angelina Jolie was on her way to adopt them and then yelling “Fooled you!” at the last second)

IFLTS: ‘Ghostwriter,’ RJD2

Also, one of my favorite things about having my own, personal website is the freedom to laugh in the face of AP Style and call it a website. Web site is archaic, absurd, and looks asinine — and AP should update its rules.

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