Today is a day for celebration: it is the one-year-and-one-day procrastination-versary of my introduction to my favorite history book, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman. On March 26, 2009, I posted about A Distant Mirror and told you to come back the next week for more. I wrote a long and [...]
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If your child asks, “If drugs are so bad for me, why did you do them when you were a teenager?” I suggest you answer, “Because I wasn’t sure they led to stupid children till now.” WendyB: Answering idiotic questions with brutal honesty since forever. UPDATED: I didn’t include the Rachel Leigh Cook anti-drug ad [...]
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A highlight of day 5 in Paris was meeting handsome blogger Thom and his gorgeous fiancee, Sharon, for dinner at Le Train Bleu. They live in Vancouver but just happened to be visiting Paris at the right moment. Oddly, we all enjoyed discussing this episode of Family Guy over dinner. MrB took this picture of [...]
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Gorgeous blogger Pretty in Black tagged me to write about five albums that changed my life. Trivia: I had the first four on vinyl. 1. Parallel Lines by Blondie was one of the first albums I ever owned. As I recall, my grandfather Sam got it for me when I was about 11. I can’t [...]
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Got this song by the Kinks stuck in my head. “The tax man’s taken all my dough,And left me in my stately home,lazing on a sunny afternoon.”Speaking of ’60s bands, there’s a trailer out for America’s Lost Band, the documentary on the Remains. After watching it, I decided that the Remains had to be four [...]
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I was wondering why it has been so windy and cold New York the past couple of days. It turns out that the weather gods are trying to blow Heather Mills home to England. This hasn’t done Heather’s craptastic new hairdo any favors. Photo of Heather’s bad hair blowing in the wind from the Daily [...]
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Twenty years ago, my family threw a surprise party for my father, GeorgeB, in honor of his 50th birthday. In the picture below, he’s the happy fellow wearing the giant button and I am the one laughing like a maniac on the left. WendyB and GeorgeB in 1989 Today, GeorgeB is celebrating his 70th birthday. [...]
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I am totally distracted from the Grammys — despite a performance by my almost-husband Paul McCartney, who did look quite handsome — by the news that R&B singer Chris Brown is under investigation for alleged domestic violence. The only thing I ever found remotely interesting about Chris Brown is that he dates Rihanna. Both of [...]
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My almost-husband Paul McCartney is on my good side today, thanks to his appearance on The Colbert Report. Some viewers are on my bad side for their online comments saying that almost-MrB didn’t “get it.” WTF? I’m resigned to people having poor reading comprehension but poor TV comprehension is a new low. As you’ll see [...]
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I had a great time last night thanks to my gorgeous friend Jen, who invited me to her family’s annual outing to Carnegie Hall to see “1964…The Tribute,” an unbelievably realistic-sounding Beatles tribute band. If you closed your eyes, you’d think it was the real thing. And, if you opened your eyes (which I’d recommend [...]
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