For those of you paying attention, you’ll recall I’ve mentioned that I’m going through a divorce. I will not be maudlin and pontificate about any of the details here. I am only writing about it at all because Tuesday was the day when I got to file the paperwork making our divorce final, which involved a trip the Burbank [...]
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Divorce Can Be Funny
Posted in Personal Faves, Uncategorized on May 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Downside to Multi-Tasking
Posted in Personal Faves, Uncategorized on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have been very busy at work lately. So busy that all my creative energy has been tapped and I have not written a new entry in quite some time. So busy that between 9 AM on Monday and 6 PM on Friday I think of little else besides my job. So busy that today [...]
Reading The Economist Is a Part Time Job
Posted in Personal Faves, Uncategorized on January 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Right before Christmas, I received notice from American Airlines that my paltry amount of airline miles was about to expire (I’m a Jet Blue woman, really), but I could trade in some miles for magazine subscriptions. This was especially fortuitous since I’d been meaning to sign up for a subscription to Entertainment Weekly ever since I’d lost [...]
Promotional Marketing
Posted in Personal Faves, tagged Dateline, Facebook, Promotion Marketing on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In case you don’t know what promotion marketing is, it’s essentially co-marketing, where two companies or brands work together to promote an event, offer, sweepstakes, etc. It’s what I do for a living at a movie studio that shall remain unnamed. Sometimes it’s fun – you get to work on advertising campaigns that include TV [...]
My Thoughts on the movie Taken (complete with spoilers)
Posted in Movies, Personal Faves, tagged Entertainment, Liam Neeson, Lost, Maggie Grace, Propaganda, Steven Spielberg, Taken on June 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
We watched the movie Taken the other night – the one starring Liam Neeson, not the Steven Spielberg-produced miniseries about aliens. I was not impressed, although will readily admit that Liam Neeson was pretty kick ass as an action hero. Overall, however, this movie didn’t really cut it for me. Here’s why: 1) This is probably [...]
Jon Hamm’s John Ham
Posted in Personal Faves, tagged 30 Rock, Jon Hamm, Mad Men, Saturday Night Live on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rather than having lots of bitchy and whiny entries on this thing, I decided to try to also write about stuff that is fun and makes me laugh (although, honestly, I do have a lot more to say when I’m bitching. That can’t be good). That led me to think about this sketch from Saturday [...]
Sharing Sucks
Posted in Personal Faves on May 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve always hated sharing. This is illustrated by two stories from my childhood: 1) When I was 4, I found a penny. My mom told me I should put it in the poor box at church, and then explained the virutes of being selfless and helping out the less fortunate. I listened to her, and [...]
Melancholy and Mystery of a Street
Posted in Personal Faves, Uncategorized, tagged art, Georgio di Chirico on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I was in the third grade, I had the scariest/freakiest dream of my life, and the memory of it is still with me, as if it was a movie I’d just watched. We went to Catholic school, and during Lent had to go to service in the middle of the day, once a week. [...]
