[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaBNjTtCxd4 A few weeks ago (or maybe more) I saw a 15-second clip of this ad embedded in the NYT. It intrigued me, because the production value looked exceptionally high – and for what? Jewelry, apparently. So I watched the whole thing – all 3 minutes and 30 seconds of it.
You know, after the Department of Justice filed suit against Apple and Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster, I imagined Jeff Bezos is doing a victory dance around his office like Hugh Grant in the clip below. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUm2K6eDuMU
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=552nkpBaCIEThe song title that got me started on this topic is not even real, it’s fictional: In Marcia Muller’s Sharon McCone mysteries, Sharon’s brother-in-law Ricky Savage is a country star, and his first big hit in the novels is called Cobwebs in the Attic of My Mind.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncGi-sRZqKM For the most part my life tends to run on the same cogs. Go to work, come home, do housework, play with my dogs, socialize. Every once in a while there is something that happens out of the ordinary. But usually it some crisis – like losing my billfold with way too much money…
I hate laundry. Always have. One reason is that I have always lived in homes with inconvenient laundry rooms. At my parent’s house it is in the basement, down a very steep flight of concrete steps. In the first apartment my husband and I shared we had to use a portable washer and dryer. Very…
On a recent visit to my brother’s house, one family member I was looking forward to meeting was Orpheus the cat, commonly known as ‘Orfi’. My brother and sister-in-law got him from a shelter when they first moved into a shared apartment when they still were students. He was about a year old then and…
Canada’s getting rid of the penny, and all I can say is it’s about blooming time. I’ve experienced what I consider two sides of fiscal portability – one year in France, and two years in New Zealand. In 2004 France, post-franc, the euro coin existed as 1 centime, 2 centimes, 5 centimes, 10 centimes, 20…
My mother loved to make three-bean salad. The minute it turned warm this dish began appearing on our dinner table as a regular side dish. Now don’t get me wrong; my mother was a wonderful cook. But there was just nothing about her three-bean salad that I liked. Her version consisted of a can of…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZjw9pN0kX0Can classical music provide earworms? For me, it can. I end up humming or whistling the melody for days, which can be awkward, as there’s usually a much larger range of tones to be covered, and the melodies tend to be much more complicated than those of the average pop song.
I love stationery, always have. Initially, I began with just cards – birthday cards, the just because funny Hallmark cards, Christmas cards. Then I began a love affair with stationery sets – pretty matching paper and envelopes, most often with some kind of floral motif.
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