Fighting Cellulite

Okay so last night I saw Benjamin Button, which was pretty good.  Long, but a lovely story that had me almost wetting my pants because I didn’t want to get up and go to the bathroom.  That’s the only bad thing about seeing a 3hr movie in the theaters, no pause button.  Anyway, at one [...]

Dinner and a Movie

Tonight I have a date to see some dinner and have a movie.  The Oscars are just around the corner and everyone in Los Angeles is becoming Oscar-crazy.  This in turn means one thing; your truly gets dragged to every single movie out there except for the ones I really want to see.  Bride Wars, hah!  The Wrestler, [...]

I Have a Friend…

…who started biking everywhere before hybrids even existed.  Who reuses her plastic sandwich baggies and who would rather be caught naked than drinking from a plastic water bottle.  This friend builds houses for people she’ll never know and takes everyday containers and turns them into something useful.  My friend doesn’t throw bag after bag of trash into [...]

One Woman, One Birth, EIGHT Babies???

Just outside of Los Angeles a woman gave birth yesterday to EIGHT, 8, Ocho, EIGHT babies.  No matter what language I try to  say it in, it still seems about 8 too many.  Eight babies?  Are you kidding me?  And here’s the biggest kicker, she was expecting only 7.
Now I know a lot of people might think [...]

Chinese New Year

Today begins the Year of the Ox.  Yay! Whoo-hoo!  Fantastic!  Now what does that mean exactly? 
The Ox is the second of the Chinese astrological signs and is very loosly compared to the western sign of Capricorn.  The Chinese also have element signs that coordinate with their animal sign.  2009 is an Earth Ox Year.  Our [...]

Nothing But Nothing But Vampires

I’ve been sitting here for like, you know 40 minutes and the only thing I can think about are werewolves and vampires and witches and goblins.  Two days ago I got a new shipment of paranormal books in from the library and I’ve been reading like a crack junky at a South American factory sale.  I [...]

Cutting Yourself a Break

Self Magazine Editor, Lucy Danziger has some helpful hints for those of us trying to loose a few pounds before spring.  First of all, she says, we have to give ourselves a break.  No more looking in the mirror and seeing everything wrong.  Goodbye fat thighs, cankles, lumpy bottom, saddlebags, monster boobs, stomach rolls, ham-hock [...]

Survival

In the news today there’s a story about two men who survived in the Pacific for 25 days in an icebox.  They had no food, no water, and were stuck in a giant cooler as it floated up and down on the whims of the ocean.  They were found just north of Australia.  No one else from the wrecked [...]

From 400,000 to 1,400,000

In the past, the peaceful exchange of power in America has been personally witnessed by some 400,000 +/- people.  Today, a million more than that crowded into Washington DC to witness our first African-American president as he was sworn into office.  Pretty amazing stuff. 
But enough about that, let’s talk about how cool it is that [...]

MLK

  A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
An individual who breaks [...]