Atlanta, Atlanta, That's My Hometown!

Click HERE to hear a silly little jingle about my hometown, Atlanta, made by WPLO...in the fifties or early sixties i guess. Still sneezing my brains out here. *sigh*

Mom, what did WPLO stand for? Anything? I mean, i remember WSB was supposed to stand for Welcome, Southern Brother... did WPLO mean anything in that parlance?

Hello People! Let's Go Shopping!

Brini Maxwell's sweet publicist Jennifer sent me an email thanking me for putting up a link to one of Brini's shows! Well, and also to make a plug for BRINI'S PRODUCTS FOR SALE!

Who can't imagine Brini playing Kim Novak? And who can't use some of those darling felt wool coasters? How about a see-thru vinyl apron festooned with an adorable tulip pocket? I already have Brini's sensible, chic, and useful Guide to Gracious Living. And i love Love LOVE the It's For YOU! pillows! Now if i could just find someone to get that rotary phone ringtone on my mobile...

Thank you Jennifer, for cheering me up with more Brini cheer. You are gracious indeed.

Hello People!

I've been watching Brini Maxwell for a while on youtube to cheer myself up:



Why oh why did the Style Channel have to cancel Brini?? I think this was the greatest show EVER. Well, since AbFab anyway. Sniff.

Eydie Gorme, 1995 - 2009

Rest in Peace, my sweet little fluffybutt. We are going to miss you terribly.

Who's Going on Saturday?

Find out about Saturday's Rally, in a city somewhere near most of you, HERE. Leave a comment and tell me if and where you are going!

Steven and i are going to Columbus, and then we'll go see MILK afterwards.

Oh No

Thank goodness THIS didn't happen to me or Steven last week. Poor guy. Brrrrrrrrrrrr. And you know what happens to the boys in that kind of cold. Just sayin.

You're Good Enough, You're Smart Enough

And Doggone it, People like YOU.

Congratulations Al Franken. I hope you can help change the culture of negativity in Washington. Here are some good ideas for speeches when some of those other Senators, um, yield:

"That's just stinkin' thinkin!"
- Al Franken, Stuart Saves His Family

"Listen to me. I'm should-ing all over myself."
- Al Franken (as Stuart Smalley), Stuart Saves His Family

"Whining is anger through a small opening."
- Al Franken (as Stuart Smalley)

"I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me."
- Al Franken (as Stuart Smalley)

"I'm going to die homeless, penniless, and 30 pounds overweight."
- Al Franken (as Stuart Smalley)

"It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world."
- Al Franken (as Stuart Smalley), Stuart Saves His Family

"I would never ordinally say this, but... is there any way you can get to a pound cake?"
- Al Franken (as Stuart Smalley), Stuart Saves His Family

"I'm a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I'll never stop."
- Al Franken (as Stuart Smalley), You're Good Enough, You're Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like You

"My father grew up in the Great Depression - his mother's."
- Al Franken (as Stuart Smalley), Stuart Saves His Family

"an early start on shoveling the cow crap out of the stable"

"Your modern conservative movement: Clueless, humorless, self-absorbed assholes, right to the bitter end."

There is such a flurry of stories out in this here blogosphere about Bush loyalists in flight, assholes being shown the door, sputtering idiots barely making sense (anyone see Pat Buchanan on MSNBC last night??).

THIS piece from the DailyKOS about the ouster of some of the village idiots at the Pentagon is a worthwhile read in this area, if you are interested. I, myself, cannot read enough about the cleaning up and out of Washington.

I hope it will continue, and be more than just some spring cleaning.

Why is Everyone Freaking About Leon Panetta?

As usual, I think DIGBY has hit on the truth. I think Obama is making some really sound choices for our new government, including his choice of Panetta. The CIA needs the kind of cleaning up the French might do when it is time for them to riot in the streets and move on to a Sixth Republic. I don't think Panetta will act that boldly, but hopefully he will make the structural and moral changes the agency needs. He will be a true steward of Obama's vision I think.

And i can't wait for the spineless Democrats like Dianne Fienstein and all the others that have enabled the Bush Administration's trashing of the rule of law to be exposed for the hypocrites that they are.

Notes et des Photos from Recent Travel

We had a great time on our recent ski trip. For the first time, Steven and I took off and spent the christmas holidays by ourselves, and didn't try to get together with family. We went to Burlington, took the ferry cross Lake Champlain, had an awesome day of skiing, but then temps rose and the rain came. At least we got one good day in. Charming as Lake Placid and Saranac Lake were in the winter rain, we donned our passports and took off to Montreal, only 2 hours north, and had a wonderful time there for a couple days. Some of the highlights:

1. our host Joel at La Loggia who delightfully peppered every english sentence liberally with donc.

2. Au Petit Extra dans Le Village. Oh la la. Everything we ate in Montreal was un plaisir gastronomique.

3. Me, walking / tumbling (but not skiing) down some of the Whiteface trails that were ALLEGEDLY blue...some portions were waaay black my ankles tell me. I stuck assiduously to the green, thereafter, donc.

4. Our beloved Marche Atwater. I could live there. The camera was dead so we didn't get any photos.

5. Listening to Steven singsong Bonjour each time we entered a shop.

6. Le Plateau and Rue St. Denis et St. Laurent, and the conspicuous, wonderful absence of corporate America in these thriving merchant areas (one can't say the same thing for indoor Montreal, the giant malls and habitrails that connect much of the city in a winter-what-winter? kind of way all along rue St. Catherine).

7. the deliciously and absurdly named "Cafe Starbucks Coffee" we encountered a couple of times. there are a few, but they haven't taken over Montreal. One more downsizing and they will be gone. Betcha.

There's much more, but i'm too ADHD at the moment. Have a look at some pics... including the Adirondacks in the Adirondacks: