Tag: entertainment

30 Days of Creativity: Days 29 and 30


I went by Edwards Cinema at Greenway Plaza in Houston just before midnight on Tuesday. I wanted to see how many people were waiting to get into the six theaters that were showing Eclipse for the first time. I talked to some of the people standing in line and they were really excited. It was a more diverse audience than I was expecting–plenty of guys, and they didn’t look like they were forced to see the movie. There were also some tired parents. Mostly, there were people of all ages who looked happy to be there. Whether you hate the movies and books or love them, it’s fun to see people excited and having a good time.

ETA 2022: I created a little video for all of this, but the site who hosted it deleted it. Oh, well.

Hope you’ve enjoyed my contributions to 30 Days of Creativity. I’ve had fun participating.

30 Days of Creativity: Day 12

Today I’ve mostly unplugged so I can do a bit of catching up. Clearly I’m not quite myself, as I actually turned on the TV to watch a little of the soccer match between the USA and England. This is the kind of craziness the Internet incites in me.

I have been working on a sketch that may never be finished because it’s annoying the fire out of me. Sometimes the creative spirit is willing, but the skill is weak.

For 30 Days of Creativity.

All My Dolls

Thanks to Laurie S and her desire to clean out her garage, I’m now the proud possessor of two of Mattel’s Erica Kane dolls. I’ve said it to some of you All My Children fans before, but back in the dark ages when it was a brand new soap and everyone was all about mousy, goody two shoes Tara Martin, my mother watched Susan Lucci and said, “Forget Tara. Erica’s going to be the star of this show.”

She’s certainly been the reigning queen of daytime–and just yesterday, Tim directed me to two episodes of the sitcom Hope & Faith in which Susan Lucci put in a hilarious guest appearance as a scheming soap diva.

From the back of the doll’s box: Erica Kane, played by the beautiful and talented Susan Lucci, is a character many viewers aspire to be. So maybe it’s the approximately twelve-times-married Erica who’s to blame for today’s news about the Gores’ divorce–although Tipper looks a lot more like Nikki Newman on The Young and the Restless.

Thanks, Laurie! I’ll have Erica dressed by Becks and up to no good soon!

Bribe me!

I was just reading a story about how the Duchess of York got embarrassed in a scam in which she promised access to Prince Andrew for large sums of money. Look, I LIKE Sarah Ferguson, and some might call her resourceful.

So, inspired by her, I’m willing to make this offer. Though Tim is my friend and not my ex-husband, I DO have access to his inner circle. In exchange for large sums of money, I’m willing to get you an audience with Rexford G. Lambert and Pixie P. Lambert. They practically live with him–wait, they do live with him!–so you see that I’ve got enormous inroads.

Failing that, does anyone want to buy twelve paintings or three others that are hanging in my living room and pictured below? I painted all of them, but I could probably get Tim to breathe on them or something before I give them up. Negotiate with me!

Or see my good name ruined in the tabloids. Your choice.

Art Cars

This past weekend was Houston’s Art Car Parade, an annual event since 1987. I wasn’t able to go to the parade, but as I was running errands Saturday afternoon, I was able to shoot (with my cell phone) some of the entries in various parking lots.


This made me want a bus so I could convert it to a Partridge Family bus.


Recognize the Griswolds’ car from 1983’s Vacation?


They’ve even got Aunt Edna tied on top.

And look, Chaaaarlie, it’s a Unicorn Car:

An Eyeroll Moment

Just saw this tag on a link to photos of Sandra Bullock: It’s hard to catch a Sandra Bullock sighting in the aftermath of [stupid scandal reference redacted]. See pics of the beautiful starlet.

STARLET? The woman has been in many commercially successful and critically acclaimed films with a worldwide gross of over three billion dollars, she’s one of the wealthiest women in her profession, her humanitarian efforts are well-documented, and she’s been nominated multiple times and won Golden Globe and Oscar awards.

Exactly what does she have to do to stop being called a “starlet?”

LJ Runway Monday: The Big, Top Designers (PR 7:12)

On the most recent episode of Lifetime’s Project Runway, the designers were taken to Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, where circus performers put on a show just for them. They were then asked to create a design inspired by the circus, with a warning to make their look more high-end than costume-like.

Full disclosure: I’m one of those people with mixed feelings about the circus. It’s not the clowns; clowns don’t really bother me. I just feel a little icky about training animals to perform for our amusement. I get that same icky feeling at amusement park animal shows. At least in reputable zoos and aquariums, where an attempt is made to create natural habitats, I feel a little better about the animals.

However, I can enjoy the spectacle of the ringmaster and the human performers, who are there by choice and are paid for their work, so I kept my focus on that circus feature.

It was also refreshing to get this photo from Summer. She’s back home preparing her VERY well-cared-for horses for a special occasion at which they only have to look pretty.

A new model was waiting in the wings to help me present the…greatest show in this journal entry.

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Make it right

It has come to my attention that some of my readers feel cheated that I never posted anything about my thirty-fifth birthday. It was a wonderful day. Along with a pile of funny and sweet cards (some with gifts of the spending kind!), texts, e-mails, calls, packages, and the like, I enjoyed a happy evening with friends.


Me, Tom, and Tim
Lynne, Lindsey, Rhonda

sitting in front of a pile o’ grilled steaks, baked potatoes, salad, and garlic bread that they all brought and cooked without my assistance. All I had to do was eat! It was DELICIOUS. Kathy S arrived later with a wonderful plug-in candle for scented candle tarts that are also delicious (smelling).

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