Month: October, 2008

Non, nyet, nein.

And no. Don’t forget no. Would I ever, ever, ever in my long-legged life do something like Dinner in the Sky? I mean…what’s the point? The website says, “Have a meeting over London.” What?? Who could get anything done? Sure, let’s discuss the latest merger whilst suspended by a crane cable, 164 feet in the [...]

BoOoOoOOo

This school video is kind of cool. It was shot with a single camera in one long, unedited take — no small task when you consider the timing involved and the number of individual locations (and bodies) used. I was entertained. And what a school! Must be nice. It’s located in Rouen, Haute-Normandie, France. And [...]

Friday (finally)

Hey, check these for Halloween: Them’s four-inch heels, my fiend. What I wouldn’t give to be 5’6″. And these give new meaning to the term en pointe: I think those would be comfortable after my standard 15-hour day, don’t you? Anyway… So I read yesterday that Jose Canseco is now sorry he wrote Juiced. He [...]

Sightings

I went all Hollywood Hag again this morning. Carreras and Domingo…I sure miss the third tenor. Billy Bob doing his thing. Loving the Gene Krupa drum head (that’s what it stands for, right?). Ugly, inside and out. Liv Tyler – she was so pretty in all her movies. She had such a mysterious and innocent [...]

Weird Wednesday II

Today’s weirdness is called Gimme. This from the Reuters wire. Seems an attempt in Tehran to build the world’s longest sandwich was foiled before Guinness record book people could even measure it, because the spectators (all apparently ravenous) rushed forward and started eating the evidence. The delicious lunch, made with chicken and ostrich meat, drew [...]