Over the past two weeks I’ve read author Ken Follett’s two best seller novels The Pillars of the Earth and the follow up World Without End. Follett, normally a thriller novelist, began Pillars years ago after he became fascinated with how Cathedrals are built and the people who built them. Pillars was published in the [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Ken Follett and the Knightsbridge Priory
Posted in Reading, tagged Books, Catholic Church, Ken Follett, Knightsbridge, Oprah's Book Club, Pillars of the Earth, Priory, World Without End on November 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Happy Turkey Day!
Posted in Politics, tagged President Bush, Thanksgiving, Trivia, Turkey on November 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Americans feast on 535 million pounds of turkey on Thanksgiving
According the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than 45 million turkeys are cooked and eaten in the United States at Thanksgiving. That number represents one sixth of all the turkeys sold in the U.S. each year!
Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be our national bird.
Only male [...]
Optical Magnificance
Posted in art, tagged Lady Bug, Nature, Photography on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Photo Credit- Unknown, Picassa
Black Friday: Time to Dust off the Credit Cards
Posted in Shopping, tagged Apple, Bath and Body Works, Best Buy, Black Friday, Ikea, Kohls, Old Navy, Sales, Sears, Staples, Target, Thanksgiving, Wal-Mart on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of year again. You know the day after Thanksgiving where Americans lose their minds and line up outside Wal-Marts at 3am to get the magic computer for $1. Yes, it’s Black Friday. Since our economy is in the crapper and according to the Untied States Constitution we cannot allow President Elect Obama [...]
Optical Magnificance
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged frost, photo, snowflakes, winter on November 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Winter in my home has come and I found this really beautiful picture of frost on picasa. Photo credit; Katja
PostSecret: Do you Dare to tell?
Posted in Reading, Uncategorized, tagged 9/11, Books, Frank Warren, Post Secret, Secrets, Sia on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“There are two kinds of secrets: those we keep from others, and the ones we hide from ourselves.” – Frank
Post Secret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. – Frank Warren (creator of Post Secret)
About a year ago I came across PostSecret. [...]
Gerald Celente- Modern day Nostradamus
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bankrupt, Fox Business, Gerald Celente, Great Depression, Iraq War, Nostradomous, Obama, Recession, Starbucks, Tax Revolts on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“If Nostradamus were alive today, he’d have a hard time keeping up with Gerald Celente.”
— New York Post
Gerald Celente is a genius who cannot be brushed off as a hack. He is the CEO of Trends Research Institute, a company that prides itself on being watchful and thoughtful about how what we’re doing today will [...]
LA Times: MOCA Collapsing. Should we help?
Posted in Economy, art, tagged art, Economy, LA Times, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA, Museums on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Re-posted in it’s entirely from the Los Angeles Times. Credit’s below:
IN TROUBLE: MOCA’s Grand Avenue headquarters is one of three exhibition spaces it operates.
The museum has burned through $20 million in unrestricted funds and borrowed $7.5 million from other accounts. Cash from donors is being sought. A merger has not been ruled out.
By Mike Boehm
November 19, [...]
Store Closings- COVER YOUR A**ES!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ann Taylor, Bombay, Cache, Catherine's, Circut City, Dillard's, Disney, Eddie Bauer, Ethan Allen, FAshion Bug, Footlocker, GAP, Home Depot, J.Jill, JC Penney, K B Toys, Lane Bryant, Levitz, Linens and Things, Loews, Macy's, Movie Gallery, Pacific Sunware, Pep boys, Piercing Pagoda, Sharper Image, Sprint/Nextel, store closings, Talbots, Whitehall, Wickes, Wilson Leather, Zales on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love you all like very distant relatives- but that doesn’t mean I don’t care about your finances.
Thanks to this awesomely constipated money flow we’ve got going on I think it only the responsible thing to do- A LIST OF RECENT STORE CLOSINGS IN THE U.S.OF A.
If you have any “gift cards” from these [...]
