Sunday, June 13, 2010

This and that part 2

My last blog got really long so i spread it out


updates 2

#2 on September 12, I wrote about using tee tree oil to help alleviate pimples. I wasn’t sure if it would work but I said that, as a person who has struggled with blemishes for years, I’d try almost anything. Well the good news is that, if you use the concoction on a cotton ball [...]

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updates

So I realized while looking back over my blogs that there are things that should be updated from old stories. Maybe nobody cares but I figured I owe follow ups just in case even one person is wondering about how things have progressed. So for a few days I’ll do just that.
#1 my weight [...]

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Cookie idea for your Holiday pleasure

It is a Christmas Tradition in our house to make a ton of cookies and give them out to our loved ones. I have to admit- and I don’t care if I sound conceded- my mother makes the most amazing cookies, some of her recipes have been past down for generations while others are newer [...]

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ready for santa

So today it was time for holiday decorating. It seems like an easy enough job but first we had to do some winter time cleaning and preparation. I woke up by mother was taking apart the storage room. After we did that it, my friend and I went to winterize the air conditioners and I [...]

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Good Christmas joke

A cop was on his horse when a little girl on her new shiny
bike stopped
beside him. ‘Nice bike,’ the cop said. ‘Did
Santa bring it to you?’ ‘Yep,’ the
little girl said. The cop looked the bike over and handed
the girl a $5
ticket for a safety violation and said, ‘Next year
tell Santa to put a reflector
light on [...]

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PArt 2: All Hell breaks loose

After giving the boys their popcorn, I went back into the kitchen to rinse the remaining pots and pans that had been soaking. The kitchen smelt like burnt popcorn, though none of the kernels had looked black, so I thought nothing of it. I turned around and there was the little three year old asking [...]

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Part one: Babysitting for six kids

I remember reading Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day when I was a child. Truth be told I can’t tell you what it was that made him have that day, but Alexander should’ve been with me and my friend last night.

It was just a typical night of babysitting except that [...]

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(Brook) White Christmas

I figured that since I did an update on Michael Johns yesterday that I would relay how another former idol contestant is doing as well. Brook White, the girl I once called the human incarnation of a Care Bear, is currently taking some well deserved time off after an exhausting year both during and post-Idol. [...]

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early morning

Some days getting up at 530 am is harder than others. Sometimes I can fall asleep early the night before and then, with the assistance of several cups of coffee, I make it through the day like it is any other. Today is, so far at least, one of the hard ones.

So I woke [...]

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Thanksgiving


Recent events and losses aside, I really am a thankful person. In fact, if loss is good for anything it is that it becomes a reminder to appreciate what you do have.
Yes I have lost people close to me throughout my life, and yes I wish that they could be with me celebrating the [...]

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what i do for money

So this is the second Tuesday in a row that I had to be up before the sunrise. Last week it was to get in line at the Virgin Mega Store in Times Square to buy David Cook’s CD, but really so that I could get the bracelet to the free concert that night at [...]

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i <3>

As the holidays come around again, it’s time for everyone and their brother to come and visit NYC and wonder what makes a New Yorker, a New Yorker. So here now are the things that only those who grew up or lived in NYC can understand the meaning of THE FOLLOWING:
THERE IS NO NORTH AND SOUTH. [...]

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WORDS OF WARNING FROM MY EX BOYFRIEND

He received a call last week from the 809 area code. The woman said ‘Hey, this is Karen. Sorry I missed you–get back to us quickly. I Have something important to tell you.’ Then she repeated a phone number beginning with 809 . ‘We didn’t respond’.
then explained how you should
NEVER DIAL AREA CODE 809 , 284 [...]

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the 25 questions of christmas

So I’ve gotten the Christmas survey from all of my friends and relatives (all of whom should be reading this blog) so, rather than sending it around in emails I decided to share it here.
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? usually wrapping paper 2. Real tree or Artificial? I prefer real but at times have had [...]

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Cold blues

It happens every year, but it never gets any better. I know that everyone has season they like and seasons they’d rather do without but I cannot stand the cold. It’s why I stare, almost in disbelief at my friends (who also hate the cold by the way) when they say they love the Fall. [...]

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So just so i have a not so serious post this week…

Life of a Christmas Tree, a Shape Poem

Oh
Tree!
So Green
But your leaves,
They seems so cold
But worry not dear tree
I shall take you home with me
I’ll dress you up with ornamental beauty,
Drape your emerald flesh with a rainbow of light
You’ll be the center of attention everyday this season
Every guest we have will stand in wonderment of [...]

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for Uncle Bo

Tomorrow is the 16th anniversary of my uncle’s death- I know right really happy week my family is having. Anyway, so this is a poem I wrote to him a few years ago.

A Love Poem for My Uncle
(a Villanelle)

We will never see the world the same way
Your were an uncle, a brother, a lover, [...]

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Thanking David Cook

Tonight I managed to get into the Hard Rock Café to see David Cook’s exclusive performance for the first something-hundred people to buy his album, and when autograph time came I figured I found a chance to thank him for helping me through my aunt’s illness with his music. As I neared the table I [...]

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the best email i’ve gotten in along time…

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning

Commentary.

My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees… I don’t feel threatened. [...]

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I don’t know when it happened, but my room is a mess. It’s not that I’m messy, it’s like I’ve outgrown it and there just isn’t enough room. The worst part of it is, I’ve been trying to ignore the problem and now it has gotten so bad that it’s going to take so much [...]

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david cook

So I went to see David Cook’s performance at the Hard Rock Café as part of David Wright’s Do the Wright Thing Gala Wednesday night and my neck still is sore from all the head banging and bouncing around.

It’s such a great experience seeing him live and I’d urge anyone who has the ability [...]

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update on my aunt

I wish I could tell you that a miracle happened. I want, more than anything else, to be able to say that all the prayer chains and well wishes have caused something science can’t explain to have happened. This is what I want, but it is not what is true.

My cousin called yesterday and told [...]

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Taylor Swift is bitter

I actually don’t know much about the teenaged country star. I know her mostly because she was in a video or two with the Jonas Brothers and also, she dated Joe Jonas. Recently the two broke up and last week Swift talked with E! News’ Ryan Seacrest (and anyone else who would listen really) and [...]

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I know this is weird, but I want to go to campus events at the college I went to and graduated from last May. It’s not like I have nothing else to do, I have like 5 concerts to go to in the next two months. I think that I just want to feel like [...]

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How many unopened emails is an acceptable number?

I personally have 45 at my main address. I know that seems like a lot, or at least my family thinks it is. To be fair it’s not that I am ignoring important stuff. Every time I open my email I scan for personal messages and important information. Those I open every day. It ‘s [...]

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Happy Halloween everyone! Probably not surprisingly to anyone who has read my posts about the Muppets and Charlie Brown, but I am a kid at heart and, therefore, I love this holiday. As I type I’m sitting in a Super girl costume, complete with a red cape. I think that it is important to play [...]

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This is just kind of a random thing but I thought it was very cute.


I was babysitting today and a little girl said one of the cutest things. She isn’t one of my regular clients, she is the friend of a brother and sister duo that I care for and her mother needed a favor so when I picked up them, I also picked up the little friend. When [...]

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good grief

I know this is going to sound really childish but I’m sitting here watching It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Perhaps worse than the fact that I am watching the program is that for almost the entire month I’ve been wondering when it is going to air.

I know that at 22 years old, this [...]

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Saturday parties part 2

So three hours after the birthday party ended, I had showered, shaved, washed and styled my hair, squeezed into spanx to make me look awesome in a red velvet mini-dress, splattered on my makeup, and was out the door and on my way to my cousin’s engagement party.

When I arrived to the venue, the [...]

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Saturday parties part one

Yesterday morning I did a Birthday party. As a babysitter with close relationships with my clients there are times when I am hired to be there for a birthday party. I suppose you could say I’m the Entertainment, but I guess the actual description would be assistant child wrangler. Anyway so yesterday from 12:30 – [...]

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my beagle

My dog, who will be turning 12 in January, was never really big with tricks. He liked the idea of playing with a stick but it wasn’t so much fetch as, “look I’ve got a stick chase me I’m your cute puppy.” He will give you his paw but it’s on his time not yours. [...]

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this and that

One of my friends met New York Yankees’ catcher Jorge Posada today. If you are interested in the story, here’s the link. Btw, I’m the bff mentioned.
http://welcome2myworld.blogdog.com/2008/10/23/i-met-jorge-posada/

Useless information: High School Musical star Vanessa Anne Hudgens auditioned for American Idol before string in the movies. As another one of my friends put it, “it makes sense [...]

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strange big sister

My best friend’s sister is trying to be her. I know that sisters try to emulate each other, it is fun being like big sister when you are a child, but this isn’t the case this time. You see my friend is in her early 20s and her sister is thirty.

Anyway here’s what the [...]

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I just want to thank everyone who took the time to read my blog from the bottom of my heart, for all the wonderful and encouraging comments following yesterday’s blog. Hearing such kind words really helps for some reason. Also, the idea that people could be so wonderful and so caring for someone they really [...]

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life sucks

Some days are just hard. I’m not talking days that are imperfect; I mean the ones where you just fell helpless. Days where you want to throw diet out the window, you don’t want to get out of bed, and you can’t bear to watch the news show you watch religiously.

Well I’m having one [...]

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Radio Request Etiquette

Everyone has a favorite song (for me it’s “Light On” by David Cook) or an artist we want to support by requesting. But trust someone who worked for a radio station to tell you there is a wrong way and a right way. And so, here are some rules to live by when requesting.

1. [...]

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for all my girls out there

You KNOW you are a Catholic School Girl when…
-:-You have mastered the art of cheating and cramming.
-:-Parents seem to think you are such a great influence on their child.
-:-At one time, you almost liked your uniform. Almost.
-:-You get kicks out of being able to wear your pajamas to school.
-:-You will never, ever, ever dress in [...]

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I learn new things every day and this week I’ve learned some interesting tidbits from my readers. The first thing I learned was in reference to John McCain’s not being a hero. It came from skwguitar, who explained to me that the senator did in fact do something heroic in the war. “After being beaten [...]

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cronkite pt4: America’s anchor

On July 7, 1952 the term “anchor” was coined to describe Cronkite’s role at both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, which marked the first nationally televised convention coverage. Cronkite anchored the network’s coverage of the 1952 presidential election. By the 1956 convention Cronkite was as well-known as the candidates.
CBS News decided to replace him [...]

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Cronkite pt3: Breaking in to broadcast

He entered broadcasting as a radio announcer for WKY in Oklahoma. In 1936 he met his wife Nary Elizabeth (known by her nickname “Betsy”) while working as a sports announcer for KCMO (AM) in Kansas City, Missouri. Under the broadcast name “Walter Wilcox.” Radio stations at the time did not want people to use their [...]

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Cronkite pt2: early years

Eighty-eight years before Larry King introduced him on his pre-presidential election show (October 29, 2004) as the legendary journalist and old friend; a great man in the history of broadcast journalists, and maybe the most revered ever to go on camera, Cronkite was born in St. Joseph Missouri on November 4, 1916 to his dentist [...]

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Walter Cronkite

As an aspiring journalist, I feel it is important to acknowledge a true master in the field. In this day of 24/7 news, it’s easy to forget what nightly news used to be and what an anchor used to be made of.
For Sixty years Walter Cronkite was the first to tell the American public [...]

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nothing much

I cut my ankle shaving. I know it happens all the time to people but my lord in heaven, it hurt. I pride myself in being a rather steady handed person when it comes to using a razor but I’m rethinking that right now. I practically never cut myself but usually I use a Venus [...]

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FOLLOW UP ON ESCAPISM

ANYONE WHO DOESN’T BELIEVE MY CLAIM ABOUT ESCAPISM IN YESTERDAYS BLOG SHOULD LOOK UP THE CUSTODY CASE FOR GLORIA VANDERBILT DURING THE DEPRESSION.
The idea that a trial over what would happen to a little girl being such big news is interesting. Had it not been the Vanderbilt family fighting, nobody would have cared. Add [...]

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Congrats Clay

It certainly has been a big year for Clay Aiken. First, he released his third album in May. Then he became a father this summer to son Parker Foster Aiken and this week he comes out of the closet on the cover of People Magazine.
Aiken credits his son- who appears in his first public [...]

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Not ready to say Goodbye to The Stadium

The thing is I wasn’t going to get caught up in all the hoopla that surrounded moving across a street. I know that Yankee Stadium is a legendary, wondrous place but if the city could knock it down and bulldoze it, like it was nothing more than an old decrepit house, why should I care. [...]

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Apples Picking

A friend of mine constantly mentions how she loves Fall. While she’s never gone far enough to say that it is her favorite season, she does always say it when surrounded by “Fall” scented candles or room splashes. I myself take issue with Fall because it is the precursor to Winter, however if it stood [...]

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LEFTY SUPERIORITY

I RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING IN AN EMAIL ORIGINALLY FROM AN ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON:1. Without anyone watching you (they will think you are GOOFY……) and while sitting at your desk in front of your computer, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.
2.
2. Now, while doing this, draw the number ‘6′ in the [...]

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THE THINGS WE REMEMBER

This starts serious but it does have a funny twist at the end- I promise.

My grandmother has Alzheimer’s disease. It’s really far gone, she’s had it since 1999 and she’s now basically a pile of body. However, ever the optimists, when my uncle recently bought a dachund puppy, he and my father thought that [...]

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9-11

i wrote this poem right after the attack 7 years ago, meaning i was 15 years old, so give me some slack if it sounds babyish.
The Heart of America
Proudly America stood as a symbol of Freedom and PrideBut after 9-11 our innocence had died.
This was done with hate by an evil mastermindMeant to [...]

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going back to school

Today is the day that my former college returns to classes. I, having graduated last May, don’t have to attend. I should feel relieved, every weekend during my four years at the college I said how I didn’t want to go back to campus but I feel bad. I sort of miss it, not the [...]

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another story i started and never finished

It was already noon when Jackson Richards woke up. He went downstairs and found a note:
Jacky,
Dad and I have a seminar today.
We’ll be home late so Shane said
he’ll come and stay with you so
you’re not lonely. What a good
friend you have!!
Be good,
Love
Mom

The thought of [...]

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Murphy’s law

My parents should have named me Murphy, as in Murphy’s Law (the old adage in Western culture that broadly states, “if anything can go wrong, it will.”) here’s an example:
About two months ago, I was visiting Seaside, NJ and, while trying to get sunscreen on my body, I sprayed myself in the left eye. Seconds [...]

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DNC

I was going to wait and give the Republicans a chance to have their say before I talked about the Democratic National Convention. Then I remembered that I despise the Republican Party and don’t really care what they have to say so nothing about their convention will interest me enough to tune in. That is [...]

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new blog

Because my mind, and summer, has been occupied largely by what’s been going on on the AMERICAN IDOLS LIVE TOUR, and because my admiration for the artist grows exponentially as the weeks go by, I have a new blog dedicated just to David Cook. I will still be blogging here about anything and everything I [...]

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heavy is the head that wears a dramatic crown


Throughout the history of drama the one major aspect has always been the tragic hero. A tragic hero has to be of nobility or royalty and has to be a virtuous person with a tragic flaw. During this semester we have read about four of these characters: Oedipus in Oedipus Rex, Antigone and Creon [...]

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A poem

(i wrote this for a friend of my mother’s whose son died at the age of 40)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN HEAVEN
IT’S HARD TO SAY GOODBYE & I CAN’T UNDO THE DONE
YOUR TIME WITH US IS OVER, I HOPE IT WAS FUN
AN OCEAN OF TEARS HAVE FALLEN FROM MY EYES
CAN’T STOP THINKING OF YOU WATCHING FROM THE [...]

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People need to learn to chill.

Somebody ask David Cook about his penis Sunday night when the American Idol concert was in Charlotte, NC. They asked him if he was a tripod, meaning someone having three equally long legs. People are making such a big deal about it. I think it’s kind of funny, honestly. I understand that it sort of [...]

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Adopting a celebrity…

Celebrities are always adopting kids or causes so why shouldn’t we adopt them?

So here’s the thing, when I was a freshman in high school I met my best friend, who just happened to have never met either of her grandfathers. The same year the movie Hannibal came out and we became huge fans of Anthony [...]

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Jonas Brothers Warning

So I went to the Jonas Brothers concert Sunday night. I would have written about it sooner but it’s taken until now for my ears to recover. I actually quiet love the music that the”Jo-Bros” play and sing, which is why I bought the tickets. However, I didn’t get to hear much of it. The [...]

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The Mavid Dance

It’s like I was the kiss of death. The impromptu dance moves that David Cook and Michael Johns (whom have been given the combination name Mavid, much like TomKat and Brangelina) do every night during the American Idol Live final number, Please Don’t Stop the Music, had become one of the most sought out videos [...]

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is it any good?

I’D STARTED WRITING A MOVIE IDEA I HAD A FEW YEARS AGO. HOWEVER,
LIKE I USUALLY DO, I STOPPED AFTER ABOUT 5 LINES. I FOUND IT TODAY
AND WAS WONDERING IF THE OPENING WOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH TO CONTINUE WITH?








SCENE ONE

Fade in on a photo album with pictures of 3 boys flipping

Voiceover-
It’s amazing [...]

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Getting Old

It’s days like today that make me feel old. I am by no means old, early twenties, but sometimes things happened and I feel old. I recently heard that Zach Hanson, the youngest brother from Hanson the musical group, became a father. I suppose it makes sense, my cousin was obsessed with the group in [...]

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rain

I know that I’m weird. I admit this and, quite frankly I embrace it. I’m saying this because I don’t want to have people commenting to be about this blog, telling me I’m a freak.
I love summer rain. Not when it messes up my time at the beach and not all the time and [...]

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this and that

It seems like I haven’t blogged all week. I know I wrote about Carter Cooper, but other than that I’ve been absent of late. I figure I’ll take this time to update everyone (if anyone reads this-lol) on what’s going on in my life and or my head.
*I still want to get backstage passes [...]

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Carter Cooper

This year marks twenty years since the tragic death of Carter Cooper, older brother of Anderson Cooper and son of designer Gloria Vanderbilt. My prayers are with them today and always.
On July 22, 1988, twenty three year old Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, who had graduated from Princeton College the year before, went over for a [...]

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A note following up the Lance Bass/Dancing with the Stars post.

After much consideration of almost a week, my friend has informed me that she will not be giving me permission to post a piece of her thesis because she hopes to publish it on the internet if and when she gets her own blog in the coming months. Can’t say I blame her. After so [...]

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Michael Kay

A couple of seasons ago, students at my former university were given the opportunity to see one of the final regular season games at Yankees Stadium, for only five dollars. Being extremely huge Yankees fans, my BFF and I quickly jumped at this opportunity. When we got to the stadium we decided that paying five [...]

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My Quest for American Idol

So here is my problem…
I want backstage passes to American Idol. I want to be able to meet the Idols and tell them how much of a needed distraction they have provided in my life when I was going through stuff that I needed to be distracted from. Plus, I’ve worked for a radio station [...]

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Me

Ok so it’s my birthday and i figured, rather than writing something, I’d post an article one of my dear friends wrote about me. Sure it’s self-centered but i swear nothing in this article has been changed but names of my family and friends. All the wonderful things about me are the work of the [...]

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WALT DISNEY

Disney World is my favorite place in the world. I don’t care how cheey it is, or immature I love it and nobody can talk me out of that. Tomorrow is my birthday and (due to the overwhelming heat) I will not be there. So since I can’t be in my most magical of places, [...]

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Monty Python’s Spamalot



From the moment a recording tells you that it is all right to use cameras or cell phones while in the theater, so long as you don’t mind being dismembered by the heavily-armed, spear-wielding knights onstage, you know this won’t be your typical Broadway experience.
Almost 40 after originally airing on BBC, Monty Python [...]

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A-Rod drama

Why do people harp on who Alex Rodriguez (Yankees’ third baseman and future hall of famer) may or may not be, ahem, dating. Rumor has it he’s been sleeping with/ dating/ living with Madonna. The two stars claim they are just friends. Today it was announced that Rodriguez and his wife are separating. According to [...]

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the power of prayer

I was going to write about something different tonight but then I made my daily visit to the David Cook fansite David-cook.org and read the recap of last night’s opening show of the American Idol tour. The was the usual stuff like how great everyone looked or the staging was great but then, recapping Cook’s [...]

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Walle Warning

I saw the movie WALL E today. I wish I could say something nice about it but my favorite part was leaving after the credits. It’s not just bad compared to the Disney standard, or the Pixar standard, it’s bad compared to anything. I don’t understand how kids could like it, or how anyone could [...]

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A Man Making Learning Fun

I’m sure every person has at least once in their lives has had a class that required they read dramas and more often than not it’s taught by some high school English teacher who doesn’t even like the plays. What a student in the predicament longs for more than anything, more than even the bell [...]

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A poem

After last night’s sad post, i watched the GLADD Awards
Because of these things i dicided i’d write a silly post today. so here’s a goofy poem.

Ode to Gay Men

There is a certain kind of ma that gets my heart aflutter
I try my best to ignore it
But every time I see one my cheeks flush and [...]

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In Memoriam

Wednesday night the world lost a remarkable person, Anna Artuso Puma. She was 86 years old. Though Puma wasn’t a celebrity in the strictest definition of the word (is a widely recognized or famous person who commands a high degree of public and media attention), to those who knew her she was a star.
In the [...]

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Sayng Goodbye to a true original

Yesterday, comedian George Carlin died of heart failure, he was 71 years old.

Carlin was born May 12, 1937 in New York City. The following July his Mother took Carlin and his older brother Patrick, then 5, and left his father, moving to a farm in the Catskills. They were legally separated in December 1937. [...]

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hanging with celebs

Everyone, or at least every girl, has gone through the worship of teen heartthrobs. In the 1950’s Elvis made females faint from an over active pelvis, from the 60’s we need only turn to that classic scene of screaming girls waiting the day the Beatles landed in America. And for my generation it was members [...]

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where am i?

It’s been one of those days. We all have them, we get exhausted with everything. All you do is stare at the computer or the TV, you don’t actually absorb anything. It’s been hot and Anderson Cooper has been away from my TV. (I will blog about him more in the coming weeks)All my favorite [...]

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you gotta have heart

Microphones are fading in and out, Cole Porter lyrics are bring sung in an unrecognizable key, and tweens are speaking lines laced with sexual innuendo that they (hopefully) don’t understand. It is unmistakably a school play. I love the theatre, which might be part of the issue. After spending six months criticizing professional theatre, it’s [...]

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Killing kids fun


One way that I get rid of my emotions is sports, especially when I play softball. This might sound crazy but it’s true I live and die with the team so when I’m angry and we lose I scream, if someone gets hurt I cry out all the sadness I have inside, and wins [...]

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Date with Jesus

A note from Cherrylemonade: every year people applying to schools around the world get asked the question, “if you can have dinner with anyone living or dead, who would it be?” Being someone with alot of time on my hands, and having chosen other options as my admition essays i’ve
decided, now on my own [...]

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Baby Aiken

I wonder if Clay Aiken’s “Baby-mama” used to sit around wanting to have Barry Manilow’s babies one day. Sure it’s funny but my friends often praise a man they find attractive, or smart, or talented by stating they want to have that person’s babies. Wanting to give birth to someone so musically or acting [...]

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A quick note about coffee

Its days like today that make me think I have a coffee addiction. I’ve been up for 8 hours, sort of forgot to have coffee and now I’m ready to go to bed. Well I’m not ready but I need caffeine or I’ll fall asleep all the same.
I drink coffee every day, much like a [...]

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WARNING! summer romances ahead


As the summer goes into full swing I feel the need to talk about summer love. It can be a wonderful thing but girls (and I suppose boys) need to understand that when the season ends, usually the relationship goes with it. Life isn’t High School Musical. In real life Troy and Gabriella don’t get [...]

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we can all make differences

I know that I have already posted about David Cook once and his amazing music but I forgot to mention that he is an inspiration.
I had been waffling back and forth about cutting my hair and donating it to charity, like Pantene Beautiful Lengths.( http://www.beautifullengths.com/en_US/ )It is a good cause but I’m a [...]

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a little bit of trash

One Man’s Trash…
Trash movies, we all know them. They are the movies we love but don’t always admit to watching, at least not to everyone. They are the movies that we have somewhere on a DVD shelf but still manage to watch every time they are on. People can go on constantly about how [...]

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A little less proud of America

I was lucky enough to be born straight. I know that sounds controversial so let me explain. I would not have a problem with myself f I was gay. And, again by the good hand of faith, I am lucky enough that I have a family who loves unconditionally so they wouldn’t have a problem [...]

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OBAMA WINS!

I don’t know that I have ever been so proud to be an American. There have been times; I’m not going to lie, where I wasn’t exactly Obama’s biggest fan. I was a supporter of Clinton but I moved on from that long ago. I threw my support behind President Elect Obama initially because he [...]

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I don’t remember a time before this election.


Okay that’s a bit of an over statement but it has been a long time. Hilary Clinton announced her running for office when I was a junior in college and now I’m an unemployed journalist two months away from being cut from my daddy’s insurance. I watch Anderson Cooper 360 every weeknight and I honestly [...]

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1 week

No this in not homage to the late 1990s song of that name. I was just thinking that, after almost two years of hearing about our next president and wondering who it will be it’ll all be over in one week. Well that is assuming that there isn’t a repeat of the 2000 recount, in [...]

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Backlash

I actually haven’t received any backlash (yet) about what I posted yesterday, that Senator John McCain is not a hero even though he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam (or was it the Civil War-lol). However, I assume that it’s coming soon. So here’s my explanation of what I said.
John McCain was a prisoner [...]

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political

Foo Fighters to McCain: you’re not my hero


The Foo Fighter wants Presidential Nominee John McCain to stop using their 1998 hit “My Hero”.
“The saddest thing about this is that `My Hero’ was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential,” the band said in a statement. “To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner [...]

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Walter Cronkite

As an aspiring journalist, I feel it is important to acknowledge a true master in the field. In this day of 24/7 news, it’s easy to forget what nightly news used to be and what an anchor used to be made of.
For Sixty years Walter Cronkite was the first to tell the American public [...]

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Palin Part 2:


Today I actually heard an educated, otherwise reasonable person say that the American public should vote for Palin because, “she’s just like the rest of us.” Now, I’m going to be honest, Mrs. Palin isn’t just like me. For one thing she is from Alaska and I hate the cold. I also don’t believe in [...]

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Sarah Palin


I know that people say that you vote for a candidate not their running mate but this year is different. Never before is there such a likelihood that the potential president (God help us if McCain wins) will die in office. He is the oldest person to ever take office if he does indeed do [...]

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fluff and stuff

I got a comment today from someone that said that I shouldn’t write about Clay Aiken coming out of the closet because we are in an economical crisis right now. I find this funny because the world relies strongest on escapism in times like these. However, I realize that it might at times seem like [...]

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Unemployment sucks

There are no jobs. Maybe that should not end with a period, perhaps at this time in our crashing economical system with the rich getting richer and the middle class being obliterated, that should end with an explanation mark:

There are no jobs! Still it doesn’t seem to be enough to express our situation. Perhaps [...]

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VP palin

I remember when the show, The View, first premiered, oh gosh what is it now 12 years ago, people always mocked Star Jones because it seemed whenever applicable (and sometimes when it wasn’t) she would mention that she was a lawyer. Funny though it was, I think she has a rival for the WAY TOO [...]

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9-11

i wrote this poem right after the attack 7 years ago, meaning i was 15 years old, so give me some slack if it sounds babyish.
The Heart of America
Proudly America stood as a symbol of Freedom and PrideBut after 9-11 our innocence had died.
This was done with hate by an evil mastermindMeant to [...]

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John Edwards

I know that politicians will philander. It’s rampant right now, has existed through history, and is almost a staple of the world. It normally doesn’t bother me. I feel bad for the wives obviously, but other than that, it’s almost politics as usual. However the John Edwards thing bothers me.
Maybe it’s the fact that [...]

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Review of Hang It Out to Dry

“Pick up- move on.” This phrase is repeated over and over again by Danielle Vignes, during her one woman performance, Hang it out to Dry. It’s a simple enough phrase, only four words, but when set against the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, its meaning is so much more.
Sitting in the Humanities theatre of [...]

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GIRL POWER

Everyone’s heard of Paul Revere, George Washington, Benedict Arnold and Alexander Hamilton but women in the American Revolution played a deciding factor in the success of the colonists in winning their freedom from the dictatorship of England. While some chose to pick up muskets or fight with an arrow or a cannon. Others chose a [...]

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JULY 4TH POST

Oh how times have changed. On this, America’s birthday, I’ve decided to review America’s foreign affairs policy. Notice how the first President George didn’t start wars.

When the United States was first created, President George Washington advised the United States to remain neutral. He felt that the country should stay impartial when it came to [...]

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Comfortably Numb

So what would happen if nature caused havoc visible in our back yard instead of on the TV?

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Attention must be paid…


I’m not going to lie, I’m not happy that Hillary Clinton lost. I liked her as a candidate and more than that, as a woman, she made me proud. I was proud that she never gave up; I think that’s a good quality for a president. It was nice that she could roll with the [...]

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Double Standard much?

Last week Hillary Clinton said that she would not drop out of the Presidential race because you never know what may happen, sighting the fact that Robert Kennedy was murdered in June. This led to a media uproar because apparently this was a death threat made to Barack Obama. It made headlines; I admit it [...]

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And now the next step

As a card carrying fag hag, and a graduate of a one of the most liberal universities in the USA, it is my belief that we are all created equal and therefore being born a straight woman shouldn’t entitle me to any rights that are not universal. It is in this spirit that I [...]

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