i got this book at goodwill last week and it's pretty damn fascinating. mommie dearest wrote 200 pages about why she does what she does. here's a snippet:
Some working women do pay someone to help with the housework, and why shouldn't they if they dread the thought of scrubbing the kitchen floor after a day in the office? I feel a great sense of accomplishment though, when I get down on my knees and scrub my own floor. When I spend months without doing a movie or a TV show and spend all my time at my desk or on a dais every night I have a lot of surplus energy to use up. Scrubbing, for me, is the greatest exercise in the world. It gives me rosy cheeks, and I just have a ball.
and one more:
I always pack in daylight. In artificial light when I'm in a hurry it's too easy to grab the wrong accessories and find myself in Kansas City or San Juan with a hot pink dress and a shocking pink hat -- and that's a catastrophe.
she seems like a total control freak, but very intelligent and funny too.
soy flour partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil salt natural smoke flavor caramel color monosodium glutamate (MSG) natural and artificial flavor hydrolyzed corn gluten soy protein and wheat gluten red 3 disodium inosinate disodium guanylate
that is it.
how can this be approved to be sold as edible to humans? it blows my mind.
Tea Leaf Green's new album Raise Up The Tent will be released on Tuesday July 22.
Members of the TLG forum plan to host 2 online listening parties. Please join us in the chat room, on the forum, and following the links below (at the times listed), for music and conversation. BYOB. Virtual party favors will be provided. All times listed are Pacific, 7-22-2008. Spread the word.
8 PM.[2]Tune in "Live From The Garden Shed" on Ustream (hosted by AG and JamBase TV) for a special album release party webcast, live from San Francisco. Video potentially featuring members of the band, music and chat.
To join the Chat Rooms,go to the Tea Leaf Green Forum Index and click "Join Chat" at the bottom. Also note that Ustream has a chat window, and you can customize your forum name on there by getting a ustream login. We will chat there too. Hope to see you all there.
my tent is raised up & i will be chatting online with babes all night usually #6 is my favorite track on the cd 'not fit' starts and ends with some of the best lyrics i've heard-
"i'm not fit to be in the company of women i drink a bit & smell like the jungles of india....
i'm no good at asking please or saying thank you i'll lick your knife, butter your toast with a rusty spoon i'll talk all night and i won't even tell you how pretty you are i'm impolite, i'll drink you up in a dirty jar...... but don't be down on me..."
i'm reading a field guide put out by the US Army in 1969 called "Survival, Evasion & Escape" full of tips for soldiers who found themselves trying to survive behind enemy lines. here's a couple things i picked up:
when dealing with natives, leave a good impression. other men may need this help
if caught in an avalanche, use swimming motions to stay on top
take care when crossing thin ice. distribute your weight by lying flat and crawling
nothing like a good old jewish wedding to spice up the weekend! bunches of nice long islanders, marble halva from brooklyn, hava nagila chair dancing, a FUNky dr. seuss wedding cake, appearance by batman, blessed challah bread, lots of friends and lots of love.
i'm dogsitting this weekend for friends who are getting married, kowe is 1 and a half and full of energy. she and nacho are on the same wavelength. they're all sweet, they look like demons here. her face whiskers are amazing. she's always had a dog door, which i don't have, we'll see how this works out.
it feels like fall already here. is it just me? it might be the angle of the sun or the strength of the sun or the humidity or breeze or how blue the sky is but something here feels like fall already.
i woke up full of vinegar ready to snap i've seen only the worst greediest bastardliness in everything since then dont try this at home
last week my neighbor brought over peaches from her mom's tree in tennessee that were so juicy i had to eat them over the sink
my little brother proposed to his wonderful girlfriend angela in front of the eiffel tower and she said yes. they are spending the next 5 weeks walking 500 miles along the camino de santiago de compostela pilgrimage route through northern spain.
(this photo is not angela, it's tina from the cherokee trading post in clinton, oklahoma)
update - thanks MOM for the photo of the real chris & angela - and an email update from chris on the santiago trail = "she going to be Mrs. Bugs Bunny...
walked 18 more miles today and tomorrow to Pamplona...little tired but trekking like champs so far."