One more..

Guess who's gonna wear another pink tee shirt?
Yep, if I can wear a pink Brewers shirt I can wear a pink Barry shirt.
I couldn't help but post this.

Yep, That's what he said.

Achoo!

Need I say any more?

Up with Sudafed in the morning.
Down with Benadryl at night. You'd think I was f'ing Judy Garland! I'd like my eyes to look like I haven't been smoking bad pot or my nose running like I've snorted a line.

Yes, I'm looking like an addict courtesy of mother nature. Shit Bitch! Knock it off. I have never wanted cold weather to come so badly. Freeze and then just stay mild. Then those of us with seasonal allergies would be a bit more happy and healthy and looking less like someone in need of a trip to Hazelden or "the Betty".

I live in fear.

Ok People...
Read this loud and hard.

I might be a woman but that doesn't mean I have to vote for one. The pic is what the White House is gonna possibly look like. I just can't see it. This is one hell of a motley bunch, and this statement is coming from a girl that lived with a strange bunch of people in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. (You haven't seen anything until you've seen Jace in a prom dress)
But you need to read the top 10 list. They are true and can be found in the voting records and their platforms. Makes me shudder with fear of what will happen to women in this country. I better get out my low heeled shoes and garment, my cookbooks, and be just like F'ing June Cleaver. If they start that...I might just not get to vote anymore either. And they better not reinstate prohibition either.
But just watch people... if they get in.
Ever read "The Handmaid's Tale", by Margaret Atwood? More terrifying than "1984" and far more futuristically scary than Rand's "Anthem"

Stick to your guns, people - and no pun intended. My gramma g...bless her, worked her butt off and stayed secretly married so that she could work and build a future. My Gramma J worked also. My mama is one strong woman and is God fearing, but this list scared her too. Far too many women have worked too hard to make my life a better one.

I don't want to see the possiblities of my life as a woman changing on November 4th.

What the ?!?

HOW DARE "MY PEOPLE" band together with her. NO MORE Swedish Vodka, aquavit, or... heaven forbid, homemade lefse.

I think I might embrace my French ancestry for a bit. Or at least until the election is over. They have a HOT First Lady (and she even kissed Eric Clapton a time or two - if that's what you want to call it!), wonderful fashion and art, and creme brulee. And don't forget champagne.

Viva la France! I'm gonna put away my clogs for a while...and break out my Louie!

I knew it...

The dude likes his bottoms. I mean... look at how he's looking at Palin. Yep. Nuff said.

I endorse this message

Election time is soon upon us... And I did a bit of research. I took a quiz and found out that - drum roll please -

I'm a libertarian...yep, let me have my guns, don't tax the pants off of me and don't you dare tell me what I can or cannot do with my body, religion has no place in politics and there truly is not definite right or left. And keep your nose out of my business...

Yep, pretty much a libertarian.
Well back in the day, Barry Goldwater shocked the Republician establishment. Move over John McCain as stating he is a Compassionate Conservative. You are NO Goldwater.
He said it like it was and well...the man was a bit wild in the day, but I think I would have taken him out for a cocktail or two and kicked back and had a great conversation.

But if you read his quotes...the man is the Yogi Berra of politics. And, if he were running today, I would be voting for him!

Here is just a few of Goldwater's views...

* Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

* I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

* I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

* To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

* The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

* You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.

* I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C" and "D." Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of "conservatism."

* If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Too bad he's not running this year!

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One more...

Send me to Springfield... Here I am a la Marge Simpson (check out the pearls) And One just Simpson /Human. Gotta love it. Scary thing...my glasses and hair are the same!

WOO WOO!

Ahh...retro hell

Oh what you can do with photoshop....
GO and do this.
I think it is hysterical.

I took a pic of a friend of mine and he became an 80's mullet man...

No, I won't post him here (poor Pat) but I will send him a copy and he can love it....
I do love the long hair!

Frickin Genius!

Ok...I'm addicted. I have used this and I think I have now officially made my iPod a GIANT mix tape.
Some people don't like this new feature for iTunes, but considering I am of the demographic that loves to make mix tapes - yes I said mix tapes - I think this is great.
I just pick a fave song...and BOOM! I got me a mix.
It is almost scary, but I never have to rack my brain whether or not a song works with something...

The only drawback.... I realized that I listen to songs that really sound the same. But don't get me started with neumonic devices or keys, or rhythms, or genres...

Julie & Julia

I'm reading this fab book... Julie and Julia
It's about cooking and a thirty something woman that blogs about how she will do the ENTIRE Mastering the Art of French Cooking cookbook in a year. It is F'ing hillarious.
Jen Lancaster meets the Food Network.
And thank goodness Mama G lent me her copy of MtAoFC so that I can look up the recipies. Damn... I will not make aspic in this lifetime. I still would like to make a souffle and a proper Beef Wellington. I can do a potroast and an awesome cheesecake. And my chicken Parmesian is pretty tasty...
Sheee-it....I can even make lefse.

But reading this makes me want to cook...and sleep with a chef!

It's all about the 8

I have a student that is a HUGE Brewers fan. It just so happened that we both wore our shirts to rehearsal the other day.
I totally surprised him. He didn't think that I had a shirt, let alone a Braun shirt.
Me...love Ryan Braun. Yep...

It's all about the 8

Good Friends Share

A friend of mine just went to New York. Every time I see him, I tell him I want to go to the deli and have a big fat Corned Beef on rye with a schmear and a pickle.

He went to the Carnegie Deli - yes THAT DELI. If you go to any deli, you go to THE deli. And he sent me a pic... of a sandwich.

Not just ANY sandwich...I'm looking and I don't think it's corned beef. It is either tongue or the gooseneck liverwurst.
Either one sounds good...come on! It's the real deal deli.
And if he had a slice of their famous cheesecake, I will just have to hit him.

Anybody can play...

Ok...somebody take a good look and explain this one to me... could it be Deliverance 2? (Look at the squinty eyes) Could it be a bad bluegrass convention? Could it be the Remix of Dueling Banjos? A family reunion?

I don't know. Maybe YOU have an idea.

The Great Debate...

The Great Debate...
Marvin or Barry. Barry or Marvin

I've added to the mix...
Prince

There has been always the debate of whether Barry White or Marvin Gaye playing seduces a woman...

Some schools of thought are pure Barry. Some pure Marvin.
For me...Barry is for dancing. I love his music. Makes me move.
Marvin...mmm....the best making out music on the planet. He is a sexy man and a very bad boy.
Then it comes to Prince.

PURE SEX...Argue with me if you like, but Prince is the essence of sex. You can dance, you can make out, and you can just... yes. You can do that.

Put him on and well...I know what you mean.

As for George Clinton... Sometimes the girl has gots to get her funk on. That is what George is for.

Bring it on.

My Inner Supreme Mourns

Levi Stubbs passed away last week. The Four Tops were a bunch of good guys. If you had to compare guy groups in the Motown family...The Four Tops were the "nice guys" and the Temptations were the "bad boys".
Levi Stubbs had a voice - recognizable thru the years. "Reach out and I'll be there" is a classic, as well as "Baby I need your Lovin" and "Suzanne" is pretty powerful. Berry Gordy gave the man props by saying he had phrasing like Frank Sinatra. Phrasing is a gift. You just can't sing a song...you have to SING it. Some people have to work on this...some people have been gifted.

Now for those of you that don't know the Four Tops...you will recognize his voice as Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors. Ahh...what a voice

And thank you, Billy Bragg:

When the world falls apart some things stay in place

She takes off the Four Tops tape and puts it back in its case

When the world falls apart some things stay in place

Levi Stubbs' tears...

Locked and loaded

My poor little iPod

I loaded this 2.5 hour movie on my little nano. I had to spend a few hours choosing what songs to keep. It is sad to make the choice between Rachmaninof and Mingus. (I kept them both but had to whittle down my Leonard Cohen, Dusty Springfield, and Joe Jackson)

And I guess it has become the ultimate mix tape for me. I guess I will have to enlist the help of an 80 gig with video and all will be well.

But I have this movie on my I pod and I love it. I have 2.5 hours of laughter, fashion, sisterhood, shoes vodka

Carrie Bradshaw: I thought I'd still be in extreme pain. But I feel nothing. I'd like some more nothing. [Miranda pours her some more Skyy vodka]

( Sister...I know that feeling. And "nothing" is my drink of choice....)

and most of all...love.

Mr. Big: Ever Thine, Ever Mine, Ever Ours

Big becomes "BIGGER" than life and you know he loves Carrie more than anything. (It is so worth the 3 inch screen)

The best part...I can watch my girls whenever I want.

Silly little crush...

OK....I'm addicted to this show - Jon and Kate Plus 8. But I am just in total admiration and pretty much smitten with the dad : Jon Gosslein. I know that he loves his wife - which makes him hotter - and I know that he loves his kids (double hot) and he has this very laid back attitude and has a great sense of humor. And I am a sucker for a man in a button down shirt.

I'm so glad that Junior blogged about this before I did...
http://juicewithjunior.blogspot.com/2008/01/tv-time-jon-kate-minus-8-plus-video.html

to quote
Okay, so here it goes...I think Jon and Kate are hot; "hot" as in "sexy."There I said it. I feel so much better.Some of you may be like, "Junior, that is SO WRONG! It's a family show!"Others may be like, "Junior, that is SO WRONG! They are so not hot!"Either way, you can't change my mind. I think they are both attractive people. However, this post's wrongness doesn't end there.Every once in awhile, I will encounter a couple who upon looking at them I think "I wonder what their sex looks like?" "Sex" as in "lovemaking."Yes, I'm going... there.

He said it for me.

Jon is hot. And I happen to find men that are like Jon attractive. (and yes, the Asian side to Jon is one quality that I do find most attractive. I'll admit I do find Asian men very attractive...I have since I was a young girl.)

Nonetheless...I have a serious crush.

Political commentary

Ok...picture one...

Chillin with a beer.

Look at picture two.

Nuff said.

Overheard on the Hill

Ok...so that's how we solve our problems.

I can't wait until this month is over. ONE MORE MONTH.

Just vote, damnit.

What Professional Chefs do...

I'm thinking that they are rapping out their recipies as they are chef-in

Yep...cuz they are the mack daddies of the kitch - in.

I just might have to ask someone I know...