Well hello there my friends. Ready for a nice relaxing evening? Me too. Hope you have all had a wonderful day. Here’s some fun stuff to get the conversation going. Continue reading
Daily Archives: June 14, 2011
14 posts
“Holy shitballs!” was how Bethenny Frankel described her feelings about being on the cover of the most recent Celebrity 100 edition of Forbes magazine. Holy shitballs is right. This year Bethenny made about $55 million dollars. It feels like just the other day she was the poor, downtrodden Real Housewife of New York City peddling her brand Bethenny Bakes at every function imaginable but now everything has changed. The reality shows that made her famous only “earned” her about $700,000 last year but she definitely owes alot of her success to them. She has multiple best-selling books and other business ventures including her brand SkinnyGirl Cocktails and its premier drink the SkinnyGirl Margarita. In fact, she recently inked a deal for her brand of drinks which netted her a reported $100-$120 million dollars. All of things considered, she is now probably the wealthiest of all the New York City Housewives and she isn’t even on the show anymore. Continue reading
I dreamed Judge Judy Sheindlin and I were driving in my grandmother’s green sedan, smoking my grandmother’s Tarryton 100s. Judge Judy told me she liked me so much, I could never appear before her in court, because she wouldn’t be fair. Judge Judy just wanted me to know.
Judge Judy went on the air in 1996, not long after profiles about her hard-nosed family court style appeared in the LA Times and on 60 Minutes. Judge Judy scared the shit out of everyone in family court in New York. She didn’t care who you were. She was infamous for ripping people to shreds — lawyers, experts, litigants. Judge Judy didn’t discriminate. Continue reading
Robert Sayegh, an author of children’s literature and former Sesame Street writer, was booted from a Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight when he said ‘fuck‘ after hearing his flight was going to be further delayed. Sayegh is from Brooklyn where F-bombs are a part of the vernacular.
Sayegh apparently muttered the curse word to himself but a nearby flight attendant took offense and had him removed from the plane while on a layover in Detroit. Passengers around him were supposedly not offended, but the sky bitch/bastard flight attendant was. Continue reading
The United States Army has launched a new website to keep Soldiers and their families up to date with the ongoing implementation of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: http://www.army.mil/dadt/
I’ve had an insider’s view of this process. I was in Afghanistan during the run up to the repeal of DADT this past fall, as well as the signing of the bill repealing DADT into law. After a short break (and I do mean short, but that’s a story for a different time) I found myself in Iraq and have been watching the response of my peers as the repeal has been slowly implemented. Continue reading
Hey Kittens! Ok – I Abandoned Ship. I was AWOL. And now I’m back, bitches, with a tale of a trip. It wasn’t a big dramatic trip, like To The Antipodes Of The Abyss. Nor was it of medium drama, like to The Wobbly Wall Of Woe. More like a Furlough To The Fissure. Or Fistula Of Fire, since it was indeed a pain in the ass. (Thank you, NYC subway advertisers, for introducing the horror of the fistula to my vocabulary.)
Because I appreciate all the support that came my way from my fellow writers here, I engage in yet another Betty Crocker overshare. My experience is bound to help at least one of you who is similarly situated, and that’s what it’s all about, is it not? I love you guys, and it’s the least I can do. Continue reading
Hello? Goodbye?
You say yes, I say no. You say Sandra and I say Oh.
You say Di Caprio and I say Leo, Leo, Leo, hello I don’t know why you say goodbye…
Except that I think that’s quite enough of that and George and Ringo concur.
So, luv, how is everything at your Mum’s house? Enough coal in the scuttle? Sardines in the tin? Good, good. Oh, nothing. Me and the band are still on the road, you know how it is. Can’t wait to be back Merseyside. I seem to have picked up this Asian fangirl stalker; she says she’s an artist. I dunno, luv, she doesn’t seem dangerous…
[at which point the phone went dead. the following is a transcript from the John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project]
“I don’t have enough money” is the most pathetic excuse I hear from people looking to dress better. You would think that folks have never heard of a clearance, don’t go to Gilt.com, or have never been to Loehmann’s/Filene’s Basement/Daffy’s/Marshall’s (if you’re NYC, sample sale heaven, I will slap you extra hard if you complain). For some of my fellow poors, these havens of barginitude may not be cheap enough and for you all, let me suggest shopping at thrift stores. Continue reading
This is going to be heated, I can tell. It will be a battle of generations (anyone anti-John Hughes will lose). Continue reading
According to Google there will be a live press release hosted online from San Francisco at 9:30 AM Pacific time today. Amit Singhal from Google was aloof saying only that they:
“…will take you through an under the hood look at Google Search, share our vision and demo some of our newest technology and features.” [CNET]
[Inside Search Live Event – Google]