My Sunday mornings are not complete unless I get to watch the CBS Sunday Morning Show. This weekend they did a segment on how places in Santa Barbara- featured in the movie Sideways- have been profting from all the attention they are getting since the movie was released. There is a map that shows you all the wineries and other places featured in the film.

The sales of pinot noir are also up since the movie came out, simply because the lead character, Miles, adores it! Heck. I even bought some Saturday night...and I did note a flutter of asparagus.

This weekend I also got to see the Dali exhibit currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. We had a docent tour and a brunch following, sponsored by the Drexel Alumni Association. The tour guided us through the over 300-piece exhibition in one hour. She did her homework and knew what certain things in his peices "stood for". But she admitted at the end of the tour that although she understood Dali's work, she did not like it! I feel gipped that someone who had no passion for his work gave us a tour. Blah. She kept pointing to things in the peices and saying "Look at this and that..and this here..this is bizarre...". Well DUH - of course an image of a woman with a vagina face is bizzare.

The best part of the exhibit was seeing a hologram that Dali made in '73 of Alice Cooper and his brain. Cool.

Eric and I are hitting up Puerto Vallarta in a month or so, and I want to travel light. I have been pondering getting an Aiptek Pencam lately, since it is technically a digital version of a Lomo. My lomo has seen better days and is retired for now to my shelf, but I miss snapping photos with it.

The good thing about PenCams is that there is also a herd of photo geeks out there that compare to the lomo geeks.

The downside is that they do not hold alot of photos on them. So when I am on vacation I am going to have to transfer photos onto my iPod via this handy gadget from Belkin.

For the past month or so, I have been trying, slowly, to improve somethings. Trying to rise earlier in the morning, trying to get motivated to exercise. I haven't been all that successful. The hard part for me is getting out of bed, getting on the running shoes, facing the cold. Not that I tried it it more than once, but still....

But this past saturday I was wide awake at 7 am, and at about 10 I went out with my mom to jog. This woman has been jogging since I was born, and goes out at least 3-4 times a week and runs for over an hour. For the most part I stayed next to her, but lagged back to walk a bit. Then I would catch up eventually. So I ran for most of the hour! And was I tired afterwards. But I felt really good about it all weekend. I was sore but felt alot stronger and better about my body. So I am going to try to keep going out a few times a week, and do some weights and sit ups as well. If anyone out there wants a running/walking partner email me.

I also want to exercise my brain! For fun I have been playing some online word games. They are addictive! Been looking at classes at Fleisher too...but I would have to buy all new paints and thats a pain.

Bought this print from Space1026...Apparantly, I got the last one. Phew!

Was feeling sexy one nite and took some self love photos...

What else..been dreaming about vacation. One of Eric's coworkers is kindly giving us her extra time share week with RCI. We can pick anywhere we want to go, and it's only 200 dollars for a week! So we are thinking Cozumel, Cancun, Cabo..all the C words.

So to wrap up, I am trying to be a toner, non-old, smarter, and tanned young woman.

Im honor of Groundhog Day, I am posting all about nerds today. Well, not that they have anything to do with one another. But Bill Murray, who was in the movie Groundhog Day, did play a nerd, Todd, on SNL. Six degrees of Punxatawny Phil right there..

World of Warcraft: I call Eric a nerd because he plays this game all the dang time. It's extremely popular! So, I guess there are alot of other girlfriends out there getting pissed at thier BF's for playing too much, and trying to distract them by flashing thier boobs at their men to get thier attention.

Widgets: Only nerds would make them, but they are cool and I will use them because I am a design geek. They are little applications that play on your desktop and do somewhat useless things like tell you the temperature or show you if you have a new email in your Gmail. But some are really handy depending on what you are into.

Speaking of which, test your knowledge of fonts here.

For photo collection geeks: Bento box photos

Last nite at the Johhny Good Times Quizzo Bowl Spectacular, we came in 11th place out of 42 teams!

...and for your information, Henry Kissinger is a honorary member of the Harlem Globetrotters.

I am hoping to sell my house in the near future, and like any red-blooded greedy American, I am hoping to make some sort of profit from the sale. These new waterfront high rises are at least a hope for me to help increase my property value, as well as make the waterfront area off Delaware Avenue well, less of a craphole. The Citypaper did a write-up....

The NKCDC (New Kensington Community Development Corporation) has plans on its website for the future of Frankford Avenue as an "arts corridor". I have been to some of the meetings, and they have hired an architectural firm to help plan it. They want to involve local artists in its reshaping, and I think it seems like a great idea. Good luck!

And this is what is going in on the lot of the former Schmidt's brewery on North 2nd Street. More...This essentially has been in development for a few years and it what was drove me to think that Fishtown was a good place to buy a house. My property is only a few blocks from the site, and I hope that as things get built up in the 'hood, I will profit! Whether or not these buidlings are the best thing for the people that already live there, that is another story.

Photos of the brewery before it was demolished.

This Sunday, Chris and the Quizhoes (our Quizzo team that plays at Good Dog on Thursday nights) will be competeting in the Johnny Goodtimes Quizzo Spectracular. Wish us luck!

Me, my bro, and a friend all tried to purchase floor tickets to the upcoming U2 show at the Wachovia-Formerly FU-Center, via the Ticketmaster pre-sale this morning. We all joined the U2.com club for 40 dollars, and were given passwords for the pre-sale.

We went in with high hopes, wishing to score the much wanted and cheap general admission tickets. After waiting for about 7 minutes in a queue, we all would get a message to try again - the alloted general admission tickets were gone! So we all got stuck with crappy 200 level seats...

But, God love Ebay. My bro and I snagged 2 tickets for only 400 dollars! Score! :(

So-lesson learned - I am the sucker! But hey, people on there are selling two tickets for alot more than 400 dollars - so in a sick way we lucked out.

Insanity. All of this to see 4 again, balding men (except Larry!) sorta rock it out while not playing any of their good, old songs. Damn you!



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Interesting story about Bono's briefcase that was stolen from him in the early 80's in Portland...And was returned to him in tact!

I just don't get why the people that stole the case left it in an attic when they moved out. If you went to all the trouble to take it and hold onto it, why would you just leave it in your attic? People leave behind dirty mattresses and dead bodies when they move - not valueable rock and roll memorobilia. Assholes.

If you haven't heard of this TV show that never got a chance, then you are missing out! I was one of you until just recently, when a friend told me all about this great show that was finally out on DVD. Entertainment Weekly (my pop-culture bible) raved about it too. Freaks and Geeks was only around for one season, got cancelled, and it took them years to get the DVDs out because they had to get rights to all the songs used on the show. So, go watch it. If you ever were a geek or freak in high school, or knew one, or dated one- you will love this show.

By the way - Bill Haverchuck is a god.

There are two sites that I found, which scour the web for MP3's, so you don't have to. Enjoy!

MPee3
Espew

Need some new tunes? If you haven't checked out The Arcade Fire yet, give them a shot. They are playing the TLA on the 31st, but of course it is sold out. Damn you XPN for playing them!

My other new-ish favorite band is the Walkmen. We saw them live last year and it was an amazing live show.

Last night at Vox Populi Gallery, we witnessed Mirror/Dash, a noise-rock outfit consisting of Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth. It was fun to watch Michelle get itchy panties over Kim. Hopefully she will be posting pictures soon. Anyhow - I am not a fan of art-noise-rock (is that what you call it) but I really enjoyed the show. But what I loved most was watching all the fans taking photos ravenously...

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Trailer

The new JibJab Clip

Cute pictures of cats. Michelle claims that I am the biggest cat lover that doesn't actually own a cat. I am proud of that fact!


Someone use the force and get me a Darth Tater!

Apparently, the old privy well that existed behind my house has sunken in a bit.(This is a theory...all I know is that there is a hole in the ground) I went to my neighbor, who owns the property, to let him know. We got to talking about fixing up houses, and he told me about his house (he lives a few streets over) that was a shell when he bought it. The addition to the house that was built off the back, apparantly had no foundation because when they ripped up the floor they found dirt under it! So, they dug down a few feet to lay a foundation - and behold-they found a skeleton! He said it was about 4 feet tall, and assumed that when the house had no addition into the yard back in the day, the people that lived there must have buried this poor soul in their yard. A family friend that was a cop told them not to contact the police about it, because they would never get thier new house fixed up. So they moved "Elmer" (as they dubbed him) to the back of the yard and re-buried him. Now, sometimes at dinner, they set an extra seat for Elmer and make him feel welcome.

Ahh Fishtown. Brimming with history. And then some. Day street used to be called Dean Street. Who was Dean?

Yes I have been on hiatus. I am sorry. I have been busy drafting a fantastic blog-post and getting over my post-holiday depression. To make matters worse, the Tsunami disaster brought me down even more.

But I'm determined to keep busy and not focus on the negative.

On that note - I am going to do what I do best. Get on other people's cases. So please donate money to the cause. Everyone out there can afford at least 10 dollars. Don't get that latte. Don't rush out and download that crap song off iTunes. Have one drink tonite at the bar instead of five. You know where I am going with this.

So here is a list of organizations so you can put your money where your mouth is.

On tap for this year:

Giving blood! Adrienne and I did this last week at the Red Cross on Spring Garden. As healthy caring humans we all should make this a part of our routines. Don't be a wuss - a few seconds of pain are worth it! Plus all the peeps there are really sweet and there were really cute young boys and girls there too. You can comfort them as they are lying there - helpless - on the table. And if you go ona busy day (we were there on employee dontation day) they will order pizza! Score!

Philadelphia Cares is another great way to keep busy and social while doing something nice for others. Don't get me wrong - I am not very good with the one on one volunteering. So I do the dontation night for Career Wardrobe.

Making sock monkeys! I plan to customize mine and pimp it out bigtime. I feel like I am doing good by creating something cute in the world for people to love. :P