Halloween, Janesville style

Our first Halloweenie of the day! Molly and her co-workers mix election fun with Weenie fun! That's sounds weird yet vaugely appropriate? Anyway, her shirt says, "I'm voting for Obama because Palin shot my Momma!"

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I choose treachery!

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You know you wish you were going as a Golden Girls this year! Fear not, there is always next year. Click here to see some people dressed up as the GGs.

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Pumpkin carved for Halloween by sage_82. See more here.
Happy Halloweeny.

Why must this dumb dumb look so much like the Grinch?

It is not right to look this much like the Grinch within 2 months of Christmas. Seriously, I am worried that this bitch is plotting to ruin Christmas for the Whos down in Whoville. Watch her ass if she gets near the Roast Beast!

So my dad sent me this weird youtube video where these World of Warcraft characters kind of act out this song that we love called "Big Iron." It is a Marty Robbins song, country from back in the day. This video is...odd? But loveable at the same time. Any excuse to listen to the song. The song is a classic tale of an outlaw and a law man and the confrontation that you know is coming. This got me thinking, law man/outlaw confrontation songs are one of my favorite types of story-telling songs, along with songs about a one lover dying young and leaving the other behind. Also, story-telling songs are one of my favorite genres of song. I don't know why I really feel it necessary to write this all down for you fine people to read. Probably because it is vital information for your everyday life!

Don't call it a come back!

Want to bring Zubaz back? Be my guest, but you know that they never really left our hearts.

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I will be heading to Chicago next weekend! See more old school Chicago pics here.

Let's talk about today's Top 10 Yahoo! searches

Today's Top Searches
Lauren Conrad
Marion Jones
Baby Costumes
T.I.
Halloween Snacks
Barack Obama
World Series
Fundraising
2009 Toyota Matrix
Socialism

On second thought, let's not talk about them. Let's just stare quietly for a while and then back away...slowly...

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Just a little trivia today. The Murder, She Wrote font is actually named "Lansbury." It is an excellent font, and was used by the Smashing Pumpkins for Siamese Dream. You may already have known this. The point of this post was really supposed to be that I downloaded the font and could use it to post about Lansbury, but then whatever I was supposed to do I must not have done because I ducked it up.

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More bullshit fuckery on Lifetime! I have not been able to watch my 8am-9am Golden Girls lately, but I assumed that all was well. How wrong I was. Such a fool. I had it on this morning, and after a lovely and hysterical start to my day, things got downright unfunny when the 8:30 time slot started and what did I see? NO GOLDEN GIRLS. Some other show called "Rita Rocks." Well, I don't know if she rocks, but she should be stoned! Lifetime is on thin ice with me. I knew that it did not bode well over the summer when they started that "New Lifetime" add campaign. These young kids think that everything has to be all flashy new new new. Well, it doesn't! Just this morning I saw a new list of the funniest TV comedies ever, and of course there was the Golden Girls right there in the top 10. People need to leave well enough alone, and by well enough I mean the damn Golden Girls! Back off Lifetime. Consider yourself warned.

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You know, Lansbury pops up in the most interesting places. Here is a Cato Institute article that appeared in the National Review in 2007. The name of the article? Individual Liberties, Free Markets, and Peace: Is Angela Lansbury President? It is an interesting article and worth the read on it's own, but I am just tickled by that title. Lansbury is a universal, a the highest common denominator. I've said it before and I'll say it again: versatility is spelled l-a-n-s-b-u-r-y.

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Oh my God! I thought I knew all the guest stars to ever be on the Golden Girls (like young George Clooney), but I missed one! Of course, he was cleverly disguised in an Elvis costume, but that is no excuse! Quentin Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator! Sophia is getting married and Rose gets the wedding guest list mixed up with the list of Elivis impersonators (they are trying to hire one for a separate event), and so every guest at the wedding is an Elvis! Anyway, you really learn something new every day.

That cow is not happy!

I HATE the ducking Happy Cows Come From California bullshit. Everyone knows where the most best cheese comes from, from the hottest cold cows out there, and that is Wisconsin. And I hate the California Cow commercials. For one thing, none of those stupid cows is ever doing any work! No where near the work ethic of a sensible and sturdy Wisconsin cow. I mean, do you want cheese or not, I ask you? I like my cows giving milk, not running around the fields rolling around speaking French and trying to get laid, thank you very much.

But the latest commercial really gets my goat because that cow is not even happy! It is the one with the little-girl-who-wants-to-be-an-actress cow and the stage mom cow. Most of the commercials are up online, and I tried to find this one but it must not be up yet. Anyway, doesn't matter- if you haven't seen it consider yourself lucky! It sucks! Again, all the commercials suck but this one is frustrating because, again, THE COW IS NOT HAPPY. The commercial is the cow equivalent of that Vh1 reality show with Danny Bonaduce "I Know My Kid's a Start" where the moms are aneorexic and overbearing and living vicariously through their 11-year olds and the kids are aneorexic and over makeup-ed and without a good role model. These are the real California cows- superficial, insecure, craving the spotlight. Those cows have no interest in giving us milk! That is the true nature of a California cow, and if you pin your dairy hopes and dreams on those cows they will chew you up and spit you out like rotten cud. Take my advice and get behind some down to earth Wisconsin cows. They may not be as thin and glitzy, but they'll never leave you.

See what I mean?

Ok, I am sorry to post two photos from dlisted back to back, but this pic shows exactly what I have always said: one of those Jonas Brothers is a 37 year old dork man. The one all the way to the right is not a child! That is a man, baby. Seriously, this is like the woman masquerading as her daughter to go back and live her high school fantasy of making the cheerleading squad.

Look! Your slow child could grow up to be a model!

Never give up little slow child! Anne Hathaway shows that just because you look like you have to wear a helmet day in and day out, you could still get your picture published by a real life magazine! I'm serious, she is pretty and I don't usually think she looks like a Downs baby, but she does here. This is the face that Mike Meyers would give in that SNL skit where he was that weird child who wore a helmet and had to be tethered to things to keep him from hurting himself.

"Well, what do you have to say for yourself? Here is a man with a beard, and you didn't even pull it!"

One of my favorite movies, "To Be or Not To Be," is on! If you haven't seen it you must rent it, it is hysterical. Rotten Tomatoes gives it 97%. I didn't know that it was Carol Lombard's last movie, that she died in a plane crash right after.

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I really like this pic for some reason. I think that she includes it in her book, and that must be why it is familiar to me. I think that they were in a play together, and that is why she is wearing so much makeup.

Nutty

Here is the conclusion to today's Daily Lansbury.

Well, he does the worst J.B. Fletcher I have ever seen. He clearly has never watched the show, because she never asks if there has been a murder. That said, I sort of love it. Anything to bring MSW to the kids.

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Have you people been holding out on me, or did you not know that Craig Ferguson has some kind of running gag about Lansbury? Apparently he does MSW skits, and he has this joke where he is just talking about something or other and then he will flash a picture of Lansbury. And he thinks Lansbury looks like Paul McCartney? Love it.

You see, I never watch the late night shows because MSW is on from 10-midnight, Frasier is on from 11-midnight, and The Golden Girls are on from midnight until 1, so I am very busy during those hours making decisions about what to watch. If you add to that the fact that I have Frasier DVRed, and the GG's DVRed and on DVD, well, you can see how little time I have for anything else. To be honest I'm sursprised I have time to work and watch The Pick Up Artist.

But back to the matter at hand! I just read about this alleged Lansbury connection, so I am going to go see what there is to be seen on youtube. Don't worry, I won't rest until I suss this out! Also, I would like to add that Craig Ferguson is the one who always has that hot bitch Betty White saying funny stuff on his show. If he keeps up the good work, I may cultivate a Craig Ferguson obsession.

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I think autumn has flamed out for good this year. Are we ready for winter?

Pumpkin Carving!

Yesterday was crazy pumpkin carving day at Jackie's house, complete with lots of Halloweeny fun and food! These pics that I have included somehow posted the opposite order that I wanted, so now I will have to tell my story backwards. No problem. This is Jeffrey's pumpkin and it is great. It matches our cats' Halloween costumes!
Many skilled people carved cute pumpkins!

Not me. I suck at this game and I also hate it and it bores me. I was just there for the mulled wine and the chilli. And the carmel apple bars. And the peanut butter cups. I decided I would carve a Mister Jeff pumpkin, only the very first thing I did was ruin it. I sort of broke the "M" and it was basically a wonky mess from the word go, so I left it like this and drank mulled wine and ate chilli. Later Kari tried to fix it, but it still looked like a beat down mess.

Chloe and Brad carved pumpkins, and Chloe treated us to a little fashion show when she donned her Little Red Riding Hood Halloween costume! Very lovely.

See how this was supposed to be the first picture? A pumkin carving party at Jackie's house, and here is Jackie with her carved pumpkin! It's all coming together now.

Congratulations to the happy couple!

Manuel Uribe, the hottest fat man around (except for my cat, Jake), married his longtime girlfriend yesterday! I have been watching and reading stuff about Manuel for a year or so- he was the fattest man in the world, but he has lost over 500 lbs. He still has not been able to walk, which was his gol, but he is working on it. I am so glad that he has found love. According to the report, his wife, Claudia Solis, wore "a strapless ivory dress, a tiara and hot-pink lipstick." Sounds perfect to me. Although I will say that I think that she might be something of a chubby chaser. If I remember correctly from the first special I saw, she was married to Manuel's friend or brother or something who was also sizeable and passed away from complications related to weight. I hope he isn't haeat broken when he loses the weight and she walks out the door! Anyway, congrats to the love birds!

Added: how perfect is it that my inability to type the word "heart" above yielded some unintelligible gathering of letters that includes the word "eat!"

This looks excellent.

50 Cent has a new reality show where people compete for some kind of deal with him where he sets them up with his cash. It looks sort of like The Apprentice. But it has the best catch phrase for eliminating people from the show EVER. 50 says, "I would never trust you with my money. Get the fuck out of here."

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I googled "I love Lansbury" and look what I found! A video entitled "I love Angela Lansbury!" It is set to the Beauty and the Beast song, and it is a montage of pics of her. Definitely watch it, it is fun. I was watching it and I was thinking about all the things that make me love Lansbury:

Lansbury is hot, but she is also an interesting looking woman. She is not the traditional movie/TV star boring beauty. Her face has character! She has allowed herself to age naturally. She is not afraid to be goofy. She plays many different characters and types of personalities. Everyone knows that versatility is spelled L-a-n-s-b-u-r-y! One of my most favorite things about her is Murder, She Wrote. That is an excellent show. It has a lot of gender politics in it. Lansbury;s brand of feminism is different, unexpected, distinct and authentic! One of these days when I want to bore you I will write about it. Until then, watch the show!

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By David Bowman
Missing Minnesota!

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Picture by Cocktailia.
I have never really understood where the "Bea Arthur is a man, baby" meme came from, because I think she is a fine looking person. However, it is amazing how natural and feminine she looks when face to face with an actual drag queen.

Claire says yes if that girl can actually play the banjo.

Well, I think you all know how I feel about hipsters.

Maybe you don't, so let me tell you: Too too much work!

Definitely a cute aesthetic that would be a cuter if I didn't know how long it took you to look like you could make that scene. I'm all for suffereing a bit to express a look, but only a little bit.

So just going in with only my feelings about hipsters to guide me, it could sort of already tell how I was going to feel about the overall concept of the poster above. And then the concept turned out to be boring and borderline offensive! Jill sent me a great opinion piece from Salon.com about this new poster make by some Obama mamas in New York, a take on the somewhat-more-charming Joan Baez poster from decades ago. Go and read the piece because it is short and very interesting and I right on in so many ways.

I especially agree with Rebecca Trainster's point that through this whole election, and including the primary season, there was/is some notion that Barack is the sexy choice, and not just "sexy" in the sense of current and a la mode, but sexy in the real sense, like people who will vote for Barack are hot, and people who will vote for (then) Hillary and (now) McCain are fat-ish and hairy. I also like the point raised by Sarah Hepola, that the "Palin is not a woman's choice" statement is misguided. I would really prefer something more directly referencing her politics like, "Palin is anti-choice" or "Palin is not a pro-woman choice" that would temper the message a little bit so that it does not sound like a supposedly feminist group of women think that some other women need to be told who to vote for.

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How much do you love that this is the Red Carpet in on Broadway/Hwy 61 in Rochester MN? It makes me think of old world Europe. Amsterdam-y type places. But really this is across the ugly road from my parents house. Beautiful. This is one of my dad's "most interesting" photos according to Flickr. Go here and see his most interesting list.

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Here is a great little interview that Entertainment Weekly did with Rue McClanahan about a year and a half ago. Very interesting, very cute. I love reading the actor's take on things. The interview discusses among other things her book My First Five Husbands... And the Ones Who Got Away, which was given to me for my birthday two years (ago!) and which I love!

Here's the clip!

Here is the clip that I wrote about in the post below, but cleverly did not actually include. Ha! You didn't see that one coming, did you.

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My mom reminded me the other day to post about my favorite movie that Lansbury has ever appeared in, The Court Jester, staring Danny Kaye. I was going to wait until the dreary winter months to post about the hilarity of The Court Jester, but I feel that a teaser is in order or something. So, I think that I will share with you the spell that Griselda the Witch (helper to the Princess, played by Lansbury) uses to put Danny Kaye's character under her spell:


Tails of lizards, ears of swine, chicken gizzards soaked in brine- now thine eyes and mine entwine. thy will is broken, thou art mine!

If you want this to work you have to say it while staring into the persons eyes, and having their eyes follow yours as you roll your eyes round and round! You bring the person in and out of the spell by snapping. I don't know why I am sharing this with you, but I just always thought it was a hot spell. Very witchy. And halloweenie!

Anyway, watch the clip! Watch especially for Lanbury at the the beginning. Also in this clip, the witch uses a second and similar spell to the one I wrote about. Good times.

I love it!

I love Indigo Montoya. As you may recall, he is going to help me when I track down Friends and beat it senseless for stealing my little J.B. Fletcher away. So you can imagine how happy I was when my friend Jill told me about a blog her friend Matt had started, and I go there are I see a post entitled, "Stop Saying That!: The First Annual Inigo Montoya Awards for Things That Shouldn't be Said Anymore."!!!!

Now, number one, it was a very entertaining post and I agree with everything he said. But number two, let's bring back the Princess Bride! Let's start quoting it at every available opportunity, if you don't already.

I know that I have Trey Wingo on board. Yesterday Jeff and I were watching Sports Center during the day and Trey Wingo was showing a clip from some football game over the weekend where some football player ran with the ball for a score. That is immaterial. The important thing is that as the clip is playing, Trey's commentary, in this pinched little midget magician's voice, is, "Goodbye boys! Have fun storing the castle!" And I immediately go, "Do you think it'll work?" "It would take a miracle." Jeff had no idea what was going on. Trey was quoting Miracle Max and his wife from the Princess Bride! So really Matt's blog post is the second totally unsolicited Princess Bride type deal this week! I have to stop talking about this because I am so excited. But more later on this!

P.S. I just want to leave you by telling you that when I found you, you were so slobbering drunk, you couldn't buy brandy!!!!!!!

More proof!

I feel vindicated! I called the End of Days, and the evidence just keeps piling up. The person who I take all my cues from, Michael K agrees with me. God I love being right. Although I suppose it means we are all going to die... Anyway, apparently Mervyn's is closing, and this lead to him observing:

Mervyns filed for Chapter 11 protection in July. They tried to get help and make that shit work, but they exhausted all their options. They will close all their 149 stores after the holidays. They have been in business for 59 years.
Mother's Cookies, Zima, Linens-N-Things and now Mervyns?! It really is the end of days. Start exercising your genitals because we're all going to be whoring ourselves out in other countries soon.
No, everything will be alright. I still have Filene's and my mother still has TJ Maxx. But if those two close, I'm going to start practicing my ho stroll walk.

The "S" is for stupid.

This dumb box is a dumb box and this proves it.

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This is the suspect picture that Rotten Tomatoes has on it's Lansbury page. They claim it is Lansbury, I claim it is not. What is she doing hanging around with Rockford anyway? This shit just gets weirder.

Added: Definitely not Lansbury. Although it is the picture on the page, and although if you leave your browser arrow on it "Angela Lansbury" pops up, if you ckick on "See pictures" the lady is credited as actress Lee Remick! I am telling you I want heads to role over at Rotten Tomatoes!

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I want to know who is running things over at Rotten Tomatoes. I usually like that site, but they have given Lansbury only a 79% fresh rating on the Tomoatometer! This is seriously a ducking outrage and I am not even kidding. I know that they are averaging the ratings for movies that she has been in, and other things besides Lansbury have influenced the rating (why, I don't know), BUT THIS IS STILL BULLSHIT. She should be in the 90s. In an effort to be unbiased, I will say that she can be in the low 90s, but that is as far as I go.

Other than the ridiculously inaccurate rating that someone should lose their job over, the Rotten Tomatoes page on Lansbury is very informative. For instance, did you know that in 1986 she was in something called Magnum P.I.- Novel Connection? I did not, but I'm intrigued. I'm hoping it is a Murder, She Wrote/Magnum P.I. cross over show where things get wacky in Hawaii. Also, the bio on the RT page is nice, so give it a click!

P.S. That is not even a picture of Lansbury that they have on her RT page, is it? I do not think so.

Watch along with me, won't you?

EXCELLENT NCIS! I finally got to see last week's NCIS and it was rad. Why the hell are you people not watching this show? Is it just me, my mom and my dad who are cool? That's probably it. Anyway, the agents went back to Gibbs' hometown! We all get to meet Gibbs' dad that was quite amoosing. No one could believe that Gibbs had actually come from somewhere. Anyway, good times with that show! Also, fun trivia, both Mark Harmon and his character on the show go by their middle names. He is Thomas Mark Harmon and his character is Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Or wait, is mark just a stage name? I am finding it online in quotes. I'll have to get back to you on that.

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Mysterious Cynthia Fey, the voice who sang us the Golden Girls theme song, is Hot Slut of the Day over at dlisted.com! Yeah! She will also be our Daily Golden Girl moment over here. Please tell me that you see the image of the truck that pops up right at the end of this video.

And BTW this Cynthia Fey is like uber mysterious. The first thing to do is not put her last name into the search because you will get so much Tina Fey. So then I googled "Cynthia singer Golden Girls." The first things that pops up says "Cynthia Fey sung opening theme to Golden Girls" but if you click on it it says that the page no longer exists, but you are being redirected to a page with similar stories, which turns out to be a page about Jennifer Love Hewitt! What the duck does that have to do with the price of tea in China, I ask you!

Memories of Mystery

Watching the new season of The Pick Up Artist was a trip down memory lane. It reminded me of when I first saw the show. I was so weirded out that I went on line to research him and see what the duck was up. That is when I found http://www.fastseduction.com/ (which, as the website will tell you, is the "center of the seduction universe" and your "get laid portal") where Mystery talks to aspiring Pick Up Artists (PUAs) and coaches them in the ways of seduction. Uh huh. Out of all the pearls of wisdom that Mystery imparts, this next conversation is my favorite. Not only my favorite conversation from that discussion board, but my favorite conversation ever.

Mystery: You won't be alone for more than five minutes once you approach your first set anyways. Gamer, I suggest you call them on their shit at some point. Demonstrate your alpha male characteristics.

Lego: How do you continue talking? I mean, group set dynamics are much different in a one one on one approach.

Mystery: Be a story-teller - THAT is the skill of the PUA. It isn'tSEDUCING; it's STORY-TELLING. It is my personal belief that SS patterns aren't as 'hypnotic' as they are 'entertaining' stories.

Wakeboarder: Sweet

Lego: Actually with the story stuff I SEE WHAT YOU MEAN. They just follow that lead.

Wakeboarder: Well, I need to stop being a sackless wonder and grow some fuckin' balls then! Hmm, story telling ...

Mystery: Here's an example. "Ever been camping? Well I was up in a forest up north and was hiking with some girlfriends of mine ... and we came along some trail and there was shit on the path. My friends were like, "haaaa someone shit in the woods" and I said, "lets get the fuck out of here like NOW." they thought I was just scared of shit and I said, "Girls, you don'tget it. This shit is still warm and its not human. It's bear shit. This is a big fucking bear. Look at the size of that turd."

Look at the size of that turd indeed. He is truly an excellent storyteller. That is an amazing story and I feel like we should all use it this weekend at the club and see if we pick up chicks. I think we just might.

Added: In case you don't have any idea what I am talking about (like Jill- sorry!), The Pick Up Artist is a show on Vh1 were dorky guys who are not good with women go and learn from Mystery how to be a "pick up artist." Each week they try to pick up girls, each week there is an elimination, and the last man standing wins the title of Pick Up Artist and gets to go around with Mystery. Good times.

"I was like, 'Whoa! That guy is smokin' BALLS tonight!'"

So said an excited little Brian Ly, a contestant on this season's The Pickup Artist, upon meeting "Mystery" for the first time. You know, little Brian, when I saw Mystery for the first time, what with his fuzzy shirts and caps, red lip tattoos, and obsession with makeup, I too had the feeling that he was smoking balls that night, if you get my drift.

Basically, I love this show. The stuff that comes out of Mystery's mouth is priceless. And please don't get me started on his wingman, Matador. PRICELESS I SAY. I fell in love with this show last season, mainly because I love all the dorky contestantswho want to be turned into pick-up artists. I don't want Mystery to change them! They are perfect as is, and if they can't pick up stangers in a club, to me that is just one more good quality that they have. But they seem to want to learn from Mystery, so that's their perogative. I just love hearing all his dumb shit advice and the secret language of acronyms he uses to talk about dating.

Like losing an old friend

Zima is going bye bye! Alright, so losing Zima is not exactly like losing an old friend. In fact, I'm not sure if I even ever had one, and I totally thought that they had stopped making them years ago. But I remember that the kids used to customize the old Zima by sticking Jolly Ranchers in em. Zima was a canvas for all your watermellon or sour apple flavored malt beverage dreams. I will say that it is a ducking tragedy that shitty Zima was around for 15 years while delicious Peels lasted for just one fleeting year. But it was a sweet year, I'll give you that. Tasted like blueberries and pomegranate.

My Halloweenies!

Alright! Got the cats their Halloween costumes yesterday! They are both going as grouchy spiders. Here is one of my Halloweenies, Spunky Jones!
He loves the grouchy part of the costume. Jake didn't stay in his costume for very long. He is smart enought to know where the velcro is on the costume, and strong enough to undue it. So, here is my other Weenie in a similar pose to his brother, just minue the costume. Also, I feel like I have a sort of Halloween look on my face, like, oh my God he's got a chainsaw/scary hands/fingers!

"Late October rides always feel colder than December rides...the memories of summer are still fairly fresh."

I know the feeling! Maybe not on a bike, but just in general the first cold days feel the coldest. Tifighter keeps biking. I like living vicariously through the physical activity of others!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Mariah! Yesterday was Mariah's birthday and on Saturday night there was a joint birthday party for her and Molly and Molly's boyfriend Ben. There was a big bonfire right on Lake Monona! I wish we had some pictures, but the camera didn't have a memory card in it, so that kind of made it hard. Anyway, good times! Since I don't have any pics from Saturday night, here are some pics of Mariah from parties gone by. Happy Birthday Mariah and Molly!

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Look what I found! The Unofficial Murder, She Wrote Casebook by James Robert Parish!



Read all about it at Andy World!

The Unofficial Murder, She Wrote CasebookYou'll be clueless without it!
For sheer mystery and mayhem, no television show has ever matched MURDER, SHE WROTE.For twelve years, "Jessica Fletcher" was America's favorite amateur sleuth - and her criminally clever escapades became a weekly habit for devoted armchair detectives everywhere.
THE UNOFFICIAL MURDER, SHE WROTE CASEBOOK is the first book ever on TV's most beloved mystery series. In these fascinating pages discover: who the show was originally written for... what important changes Angela Lansbury brought to her character... where the New England locations were actually shot... and why MURDER, SHE WROTE was the most popular whodunit on TV...
PLUS:
the complete history of MURDER, SHE WROTE - from TV pilot to TV classic
plot summaries of each and every episode
the inside story on "Jessica Fletcher's" private life and crime-solving career
full star biography and guest star profiles
candid behind-the-scenes anecdotes by the cast and crew
memorable MURDER, SHE WROTE highlights and never-before-revealed facts and trivia!
With over 25 photos to die for!

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One of Project Runway's Kenley's looks from her Bryant Park show. I did not want her to win, but I do like her fashion. This was one of my favorite looks of hers, and I was trying to put my finger on why... Then I read what the guys at Project Rungay had to say, and it all made sense.

We're coming around a bit on this one. The hand-painted fabric still looks a little Golden Girls to us and we wonder just how stiff that dress must be with all that paint on it but we have to admit the design is pretty nice - especially the sleeves.

I'm sorry but Maxine cracks me up sometimes

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The colors of autumn and winter collide during a snowstorm Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008, alongside a highway in Kenai, Alaska. (AP Photo/Peninsula Clarion, M. Scott Moon)

Technology Bites

So lately I have been having problems with technology.

First there is the computer issue, which is really cutting in on my blogging. Basically the problem boils down to I can't turn my computer on because everytime I do, this incredudly scary blue screen pops up, tells me my computer has experienced a serious error, and then shuts me down.

Then there was my phone. The speaker was broken and so I couldn't hear anything. Not people speaking on the other end, not my messages. So I go and they order me a new one and then when I go to pick it up, the Sprint guy pulls off the sticky plastic from the screen, and the damn screen came right off with it! So they had to order me a new one, which I have had for about a week. The screen is peeling off! The screen is peeling off!!!! I have to take it back.

Then, my iPod broke. So I take it back and it is still under warranty, so I get a new one. I get it home and open it, only there is no USB charger cord or headphones! I have to go back to the store again! What the duck.

I have always hated technology and it tries to get back at me. One of these daysI will have the last laugh when the apocolypse comes and we dont need that shit anymore. I will crush it under my heel and teach everyone a new technology hating way of life. I will make up technology-sucks legends and teach all the children, so that they will rebuild the world with nothing more advanced than the wheel.

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Like many of you, I hit it pretty hard for Lansbury's birthday last night. I like the blurriness of the picture for this reason. I don't know if any of the people I was with knew that that was what the partying was for, because I think I forgot to mention it, but it was written all over my heart. When Mariah sang Karaoke to Jo Dee Messina's "Bye Bye Love," I felt like she was singing it to any Lansbury hater anywhere, anytime. And it was moving.

Reba says deal with it!

And so do I. Reba believes that she was reincarnated, that she lived a previous life as a man. I wonder what gave her that idea? Regardless of the fact that she can look a bit like a male rodent, she is hot and I love her.

My apologies

Sorry about the no posting yesterday. I was busy partying like it was Lansbury's birthday...

Daily Golden Girls

Well, I don't really know where to begin. Starship Troopers was nominated for an Oscar? Gary Busey's son was in it? The point is that Rue McClanahan was in this movie as the biology teacher! I was trolling around, reading about her, and then I go to imdb.com and there it is, plain as day. Starship Troopers. I saw that movie long ago. It was like seriously like the only movie I've ever wanted to walk out of, and then I find out years later that it is studied in film classes, apparently acutally had something to say, and has the hotness of Rue McClanahan in it.

Daily Lansbury

I just nominated Lansbury for Hot Slut of the Day on Dlisted. We'll see. You know what tomorrow is! Enough said.

Daily Photo

I found a blog with some great photography!

Ah-hem

I'm beginning to think that any red is a chillable red. Let's never mind that for now and just move on. But my new (well, new-ish) serious love for red wine is making me think that I will definitely live my dream one day. No, not my dream of getting as fat as Roseanne Bar, although I haven't given up. The dream that I am refering to is the one of one day being at a dinner party and having my husband reach over and put his hand on my arm and say "Darling, don't you think you've had enough?" Exactly.

Oh my God I love this guy

Ho-lee shit. I forget all about this crazy. He was on some Bravo reality show that of course I watched. I can't help myself! But it must be the only Bravo reality show in history that did not have a second, third, fourth, and fifth season. Hold up. I think that this shit was on Lifetime! It was some show about being a damn butler or cook or something for the rich and famous? Nevermind! This hotness speaks for itself! Anyway, this is Norwood Young and he has finally claimed his spot as Hot Slut of the Day. I knew you'd get there someday Norwood. Clink the link above to read about him!

Dancing!

I finally saw like 2 secinds of Dancing With the Stars last night! I had never seen the show, but I follow it through Dlisted. Anyway, I saw that it was on but I was too late to catch Cloris Leachman, doing her dancing and also doing hood rat stuff no doubt. But I did see... Cheryl Burke! I hardly recognized her with her hair all frizzed up and broke down like that. Anyway, read funny things about Dancing here with the hilarious Michael K.

Where Joe is

Since it was Joe's B-day yesterday, and since he is across the world doing neat things, I thought I should link to the blog where you can read about St. Philip's Mission, were he is living and doing hood rat stuff.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours; Yours are the eyes through which is to look out Christ's compassion to the world; Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good; Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now.

-St. Teresa of Avila

Daily Photo

Natural disasters seem to be coming more frequently. Maybe they are just getting more coverage, or maybe they are happening in more populated areas, or maybe it is just that I am paying more attention or maybe it is--wait for it!-- the end of days! Seriously, I'm pretty sure that that is it. Today it is the California wildfires.

Daily Golden Girls

You know, I don't talk about Maude all that much. Maybe since I'm really into the Golden Girls, and maybe because I just haven't seen all that much of it. But what I love most about Maude is that every time I see a picture from it, I have to remind myself that it's Bea Arthur. It's like she is a totally different person, even totally different looking, when she switched from Maude to Dorothy Zbornak. Anyway, I love all the faces of Maude. In case you are not familiar with the show, her is a synopsis from USA Today:

Before Roseanne, Kate and Allie and One Day at a Time became hits featuring strong women and frequently mature themes, there was Maude, the groundbreaking, six-season CBS comedy featuring Bea Arthur.
Big, brassy and pushing 50 at the time, Arthur concedes she was an atypical TV star. The Broadway veteran was tapped for her own series after a stint on All in the Family as Maude Findlay, the liberal nemesis and sister-in-law of arch-conservative Archie Bunker. That prompted series creator Norman Lear to create a spinoff based on an upper-middle-class New York feminist on her fourth marriage.
"She was not your average, beautiful heroine, but I felt like Cinderella," says Arthur, now 83. "It was one of the first times on television that a woman was seen as the head of the family instead of the usual fumbling male."
Nearly 35 years after its debut in fall 1972, viewers may find Maude: The Complete First Season (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, $29.95) tame. But at the time, Maude's story lines on alcoholism, menopause, women's lib, nervous breakdowns and hemorrhoids were considered so controversial that some network affiliates refused to air episodes — such as a two-parter on Maude's abortion.
"I liked the fact that we touched on just about everything untouchable," says Arthur, whose last TV appearance was as Larry David's surly mom on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. "It was so very different and not what people expected."

Daily Lansbury

So over the weekend my friend Brent informed me that Lansbury has an amazing home on the Irish coast that had been featured in Architectural Digest. Of course it had. This is Lansbury we are talking about and I am glad that the world at large recognizes her class. Anyway, click here to see all the pics, they are amazing. It is a place I can definitely see J.B. Fletcher living if she ever left Cabbot Cove. Which she wouldn't. I'm just talking crazy! Forget I said that.

Happy Birthday Joe!

It is October 13th, basically the most important 13th of the year, because it is Joe's Bday! He is 22 today, sweating and tutoring kids over in Swaziland. Usually Joe's birthday happens just when autumn becomes it's most autumny. This is about the time when the nights usually get very cool and sort of Halloween creepy with most of the leaves off the trees, and twisty black branches silhouetted against the sky. But this year Joe's birthday comes at the start of sweltering summer, at least in the part of the world he is in. Happy Birthday from your family! We miss you!

And not Joe birthday post would be complete without a reference to his favorite restaurant. We will for sure have Culvers when you get back.