Please excuse the mess. I have been trying to customize this site and it is taking more time than I expected. I will let you all know when it is back up and running!
Harry Belafonte Heaven August 23, 2008
Today is house cleaning day, and I just HAD to let you guys know that I am listening to one of my all time favorite records; Harry Belafonte, Live at Carnegie Hall. I am so happy we finally hooked up the turn table in the living room, because it has been awhile since I have indulged in my record collection. This is a wonderful recording that includes “Mama Look a Booboo”, “Man Smart (Woman Smarter”), “Day-O”, and my favorite; “Hava Nageela”! Seriously! Did you know that this King of Calypso did his own version of the Hebrew folk song? Click the album photo to order from Amazon.
Cake Wrecks August 19, 2008
When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong, count on seeing them on Cake Wrecks in all their glory. Please visit the site, there are way too many great cakes to post here! Click on the photos to get the story.
Freud would have a field day
If they had this cake at our sexual harassment meeting, it would have made the horrible films they showed a little better.
"Um...I'll take a slice of fetus face, please."
The anti-wedding cake.
Little Derrick also got hookers on his special day. Then he shot them and stole their money.
Quiz – Find your decorating style August 19, 2008
from How About Orange
Just choose pictures you like best in response to the questions. I’m ‘kitschy chic’, my friend Meredith is ‘Barcelona cool’. What are you? Click the picture to take the quiz!
Cell Phones and Sleep August 18, 2008
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Some experiments seems to suggest that using a cell phone before going to bed can make it more difficult to fall asleep. It seems that the radio waves can mess with the mind and excite it. The effect is fairly subtle and is about equivalent to drinking half a cup of coffee, but still something to consider if you are having trouble going to sleep.
Design your own Keds! August 18, 2008
Customizable things are my new favorite. It probably stems from the constant disappointment of never being able to find any personalized pencil kits with my name on them when I was a kid. Keds now lets you design your own shoes with images you can upload and using their colors and patterns. They start at $60, but you can save the image of shoes you make without buying them. Like I did. I’d like to see your design! Make them HERE and then post your creation! I made these:
White Whine August 16, 2008
My new favorite website (or feed, via Google Reader, for my with-it tech peeps) is White Wine, which posts a new white person complaint for every day of the week. As if we needed any, but these are HILARIOUS and real. Apparently you just e-mail your over- privileged, arrogant and ironic bitching to the webmaster, et voila! Another WASP bytes the dust. Among my favorites are:
“I wish this JetBlue pilot would stop talking. I’m trying to watch Anthony Bourdain.”
“God I hate washing the salad spinner.”
“Do I have to hit every single red light on the way to the crepe place?”
Creepy Criminal Records Search August 16, 2008
The New York Times covers CriminalSearches.com, the controversial online searchable database of criminal records that have privacy advocates (and people with speeding tickets on their record) completely freaked out. You might want to check and see if you can find yourself on it, or your creepy gardener who keeps peeking into your bathroom window in the morning…just sayin’.
