This montage of "senior moments" from TPM really hits home on this issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWX5u69hmzY
But today, McCain really nailed it... instead of saying "my friends" or "my fellow americans" in his stump speech earlier today, he actually said "my fellow prisoners." Let's go to the video tape... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7AET4i6L74 (he says it around the :23 mark).
John McCain: Change We Can Forget About
About John McCain
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Yeah! We're Allowed to Enjoy Our Food Again! How This Gives Our Children Healthier Eating Habits
Perhaps it's just the way my addled brain works, but when I read that same article, along with your blog post, I couldn't help but see a correlation to sex. Even, to a small degree, in relation to our kids. I firmly believe our (the collective "our") kids would benefit from more healthy, positive views on sex as well. The quality of the food we eat, our attitudes toward food and the enjoyment we get from nourishing ourselves with food is often an indicator, in my experience, of how we feel about sex, how we respond to sex, the quality of the sex we're having and how positive (or not) our overall sexual life is. Healthier attitudes toward both are desperately needed in this country.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Friday, August 01, 2008
Wishy washy
I am, as George W. Bush so eloquently coined, a Decider. I make decisions. Concrete decisions that have expected outcomes. So why am I so wishy washy lately?
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Everything changes
They say the more things change the more they stay the same. It's not true. The more things change the less they will ever be the same again.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
One of those days
Did you ever have one of those days where you know something is wrong but you can't quite put your finger on it? Today is one of those days, except I did manage to put my finger on it. Unfortunately, I'd rather have been kept guessing. Don't you hate days like this? I do.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Dear Laura Walker and the rest of WNYC
I will not be contributing any more money to your generally worthy cause until The Takeaway is taken away. The Takeaway is painfully awful to the point of being downright insulting to any intelligent human who strives to be informed and up on the news of the day (i.e. the typical public radio listener and supporter). John Hockenberry and Adaora Udoji may be fine people (in fact, I've enjoyed John's work in the past), but they are terrible hosts and abysmal interviewers. Their inane banter in the morning serves no purpose other than to get me out of bed sooner. I used to enjoy my slow starts... easing into the morning with the radio on for 15-20 minutes, the news of the day seeping into my brain by osmosis. But now, as soon as the radio-alarm goes off, I hit the OFF button and jump out of bed so that I don't risk hearing even a minute of the drivel that is The Takeaway. Sometimes I forget to switch from 820 AM to 93.9 FM on the shower radio and the same show I shot out of bed to avoid just an hour earlier is back, torturing me with its annoying sound effects and pointless chatter.
The entire show is confusing and unfocused, It's an aural assault of sound-effects and nonsensical noise. If I wanted this kind of radio in the morning, I'd already be listening to the Morning Zoo or some other commercial garbage. I listen to WNYC - and contribute not-insignificant amounts of money to WNYC - to avoid the trash that's elsewhere on the dial. WNYC, to me, is about Morning Edition, Brian Lehrer, To The Point (which you foolishly displaced), On the Media, All Things Considered, Leonard Lopate, and the rest of the best. The Takeaway is the antithesis of everything WNYC, and public radio in general, stands for!
The last time I was this furious with WNYC's programming was back when The Satellite Sisters ruined my weekends. As much as I hated them, I'd gladly take them back if you would please take away The Takeaway.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
A local celebrity is painting my bathroom
Hey Look! Our painter, Scott Moran, is on TV! He's the guy wearing glasses. He helped rescue this woman from a moldy bathroom. Our bathroom was much easier (and a much better color)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Brooklyn bathroom mini-reno almost complete
A few weeks ago our shower became a lethal weapon and took a shot at me. Fortunately I don't move too fast in the morning, so the bullet, in the form of a diverter valve button, missed me by a few inches as I was stepping into the shower.
And so began a chain of events that is finally drawing to a close. What started as a simple (albeit expensive) shower body replacement turned into a mini renovation. Once you open one wall, you must patch the huge hole in that wall and replace the corresponding tile on that wall. Once you replace tile on one wall, it doesn't match the other walls, so you have to re-tile the other walls. But you can't just re-tile when the walls are in bad shape from water damage stemming from a bunch of tiny cracks in the grout lines that have been letting water seep through between the tiles and the walls for 10 years, so you have to strip the walls down to the bare studs and put up new shower walls before you can install new tile. Now if you're going to rip down all that old wall tile, you might as well rip out and replace the baseboard tile so that it matches the new walls. Don't forget about new rugs and a new shower curtain to round things out!
Once you've gotten the shower and baseboard all shiny and new you realize that the bathroom sink hardware looks ratty and dated next to the shiny, new shower hardware so you buy the matching hardware for the sink and call the plumber back to replace that too. But then you realize that the new sink handles are much taller than the old ones... in fact, so high that they interfere with your use of the electrical outlet that sits just above and next to the sink so you have to call an electrician move that outlet. Moving the outlet, of course, leaves a gaping hole in the wall, but since you already have several other gaping holes in all the walls from where you impulsively ripped out the soap dish, toothbrush holder, toilet paper holder and towel rack, which looked hideous next to all the new tile and new hardware, it's no big deal. So you call in a handyman to patch it all up.
Once the handyman is done, you figure you might as well paint all the un-tiled walls, but what color? Gray. Gray would look nice since the floor tile is gray (oh yeah, we re-grouted the floors tile when the wall tile went up) and two accent rows of the wall tile are gray. What shade of gray? There are so many shades of gray! Off to Janovic I go to load up on Benjamin Moore sample jars, in my quest to find the perfect gray. 12 sample jars later the walls look like Piet Mondrian and Jackson Pollack collaborated on an art installation for our bathroom. The good news is, Benjamin Moore's Sidewalk Gray is the perfect gray for the bathroom. Ugh... but who is going to paint? Not me. I picked the color. Let someone else to the dirty work. Scott Moran comes to our rescue tomorrow morning at 9am sharp to put the final touches on our "new" bathroom. Sidewalk Gray, here we come!
And now I'm pretty satisfied with myself, having gotten most of the benefits of a full bathroom renovation, without the headache of doing an actual full-on renovation. Then again... the old medicine cabinet, with it's 3-panel mirrored doors and dressing-room vanity style lighting is really starting to bother me...
...to be continued?
And so began a chain of events that is finally drawing to a close. What started as a simple (albeit expensive) shower body replacement turned into a mini renovation. Once you open one wall, you must patch the huge hole in that wall and replace the corresponding tile on that wall. Once you replace tile on one wall, it doesn't match the other walls, so you have to re-tile the other walls. But you can't just re-tile when the walls are in bad shape from water damage stemming from a bunch of tiny cracks in the grout lines that have been letting water seep through between the tiles and the walls for 10 years, so you have to strip the walls down to the bare studs and put up new shower walls before you can install new tile. Now if you're going to rip down all that old wall tile, you might as well rip out and replace the baseboard tile so that it matches the new walls. Don't forget about new rugs and a new shower curtain to round things out!
Once you've gotten the shower and baseboard all shiny and new you realize that the bathroom sink hardware looks ratty and dated next to the shiny, new shower hardware so you buy the matching hardware for the sink and call the plumber back to replace that too. But then you realize that the new sink handles are much taller than the old ones... in fact, so high that they interfere with your use of the electrical outlet that sits just above and next to the sink so you have to call an electrician move that outlet. Moving the outlet, of course, leaves a gaping hole in the wall, but since you already have several other gaping holes in all the walls from where you impulsively ripped out the soap dish, toothbrush holder, toilet paper holder and towel rack, which looked hideous next to all the new tile and new hardware, it's no big deal. So you call in a handyman to patch it all up.
Once the handyman is done, you figure you might as well paint all the un-tiled walls, but what color? Gray. Gray would look nice since the floor tile is gray (oh yeah, we re-grouted the floors tile when the wall tile went up) and two accent rows of the wall tile are gray. What shade of gray? There are so many shades of gray! Off to Janovic I go to load up on Benjamin Moore sample jars, in my quest to find the perfect gray. 12 sample jars later the walls look like Piet Mondrian and Jackson Pollack collaborated on an art installation for our bathroom. The good news is, Benjamin Moore's Sidewalk Gray is the perfect gray for the bathroom. Ugh... but who is going to paint? Not me. I picked the color. Let someone else to the dirty work. Scott Moran comes to our rescue tomorrow morning at 9am sharp to put the final touches on our "new" bathroom. Sidewalk Gray, here we come!
And now I'm pretty satisfied with myself, having gotten most of the benefits of a full bathroom renovation, without the headache of doing an actual full-on renovation. Then again... the old medicine cabinet, with it's 3-panel mirrored doors and dressing-room vanity style lighting is really starting to bother me...
...to be continued?
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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