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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Check out this great MSN video: The Odd Couple: Cat And Owl Are Best Friends

Check out this great MSN video: The Odd Couple: Cat And Owl Are Best Friends

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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Milton Bradley

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More priceless photo-tributes from life.com


THE BOARD GAME ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_game

Carolina Herrera

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1391190/Carolina-Herrera-designing-Jackie-O.html

reminisces on the days when she dressed Jacqueline Kennedy.

Teresa Giudice

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The explosive first episode in the new season of THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW JERSEY popped off our tv screens with a real life Italian American family war fueled by copious alcohol consumption byJoe Gorga, bother of Teresa Giudice [ji-o-dee-che].

Talk on the reality-tv circuit is Gorga and his wife Melissa are desperate for fame and skewering Joe and Teresa for all the world to see will do.

I can't say I'm a fan of Melissa, she's rubbing me and not in a good way.  Remember how reviled was Camille Grammer in the beginning - she netted lots of sympathy by season's end ... so, who knows! 

As for Teresa, the ravages of dubious fame is starting to burn.

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Get it all at Bravotv.com!
http://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey

Playboy Trailer!!!

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PLAYBOY TRAILER ... ALERT!



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First look ...

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The giant beach read destined to be a giant movie.

On this day ....

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                                 IN MOVIE HISTORY

Hangover II

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.........HANGOVER 2 DID IT AGAIN

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/usmovies.thehollywoodreporter.com/hangover-part-ii-biggest-comedy-all-time-1181-million?nc

Photos: Charming Photos of Elizabeth Taylor at a Florida “Fat Farm”: vanityfair.com

Photos: Charming Photos of Elizabeth Taylor at a Florida “Fat Farm”: vanityfair.com

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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Ode to Puddy

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to my beloved Kitty who lived and died on her own terms
with mama



sleep queen


online
she played scrabble too

she loved her bling collar
with ratty

last photo of our Kitty
  RIP 28-5-2011 love forever OGee

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Jamaica and its railroad history

Jamaica and its railroad history


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what's left of railway hub, Down Town Kingston, Jamaica
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The fall of John Edwards

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But tis strange
And often times. to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths
Win us with honest trifles, to betrays'
In deepest consequence.

MACBETH, BANQUO, scene III


FALLEN HERO ///  Macbeth quotes
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Macbeth

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Michelle Obama

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the hangover

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FUNNIEST movie ever!

Rare Colour Photos

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More iconic and rare colour photos from the 1940s.  Looooove them!

Thelma & Louise

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The sleeper hit of 20 years gone had modest box office emergence.  It gained critical appeal, thrice surpassed its budget and launched the career of leading man, Brad Pitt. 


The signature and final line ... "lets not get caught; lets keep going." ... launched a million debates.


Its iconic ending was meant to be mournfully different but in its stead, an uncompromising ending created movie history.


.... the freeze frame of the car "allows Thelma and Louise to dwell forever in that odd moment in movie history when women won the right to be just as crazy as men." (Slate.com's Dana Stevens) - lol, hahaha!

http://www.cinepad.com/reviews/thelma.htm

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Huguette Clark

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104 years
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Huguette Clark has passed away --- the most mysterious heiress af all time --- I suppose, snippets of her ultra private life will be known now.

A woman from another time.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20110524/ts_atlantic/fatehuguetteclarksfortune38100;_ylt=AnkB9iENaYSrPc6Kcd0lKcus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTMxdnUwNDRkBGFzc2V0A2F0bGFudGljLzIwMTEwNTI0L2ZhdGVodWd1ZXR0ZWNsYXJrc2ZvcnR1bmUzODEwMARwb3MDNQRzZWMDeW5fbW9zdF9wb3B1bGFyBHNsawN0aGVmYXRlb2ZodWc- 

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Pretty History

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The prettiest places paired with history!

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

A World Gone with the Wind

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Rare photographs from the American Library of Congress of Americans in the post-depression era in rural America.


Iconic.


Like every post war, post depression depiction you have ever seen - the real deal.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The School of Wealthy Parenting

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Welcome to the Wellington Burt School for Wealthy Parenting.




A rich timber baron of Michigan, Wellington R. Burt, died in 1919 with a fortune but to protect his offspring, declared his fortune be bestowed 21 years after the death of his grandchildren.  His intent - to prevent the characters of his children and theirs becoming sullied by entitlement and avarice.  




Generation skipping trusts and myriad estate-planning structures have existed for years but typically spared the grandchildren.  This trust was particularly complex. 




Throughout their lives, Burt's children and grandchildren did receive small "allowances."  His family will now inherit approximately US$100 million and they are a substantially larger group of descendants.


Sophia Loren

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SOPHIA LOREN


No words needed except that I read her autobiography at 13 and can still recall her story today!

Children of the War

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the lucky ones
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What happened to the children of the Holocaust?  Where are they?


In the years after the war, Europe began the sad task of reuniting families with children who had been lost to them during the war.


The latest campaign, now 65 years later, hopes to find out what happened to those children.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Mary Murphy

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Mary Murphy - good girl actress who played opposite Marlon Brando in classic film The Wild One - has floated away to her sweet bye and bye at 80 years.

R.I.P.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Jack the Ripper mystery

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The greatest of the coldest cases - one hundred years of mystery.

Modern police investigators of Scotland Yard are actively resisting attempts to lay bare the contents of the Jack The Ripper investigation - one reason - to protect the descendants of those Victorian era witnesses!

Robert Gates

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Watch out-going U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, in an interview with Katie Couric, give his take on past Presidents from LBJ to Obama.

Cary Grant

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The Greatest is still The Greatest ... And you know it!!!

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Photos: The Cannes Film Festival’s Golden Age: vanityfair.com

Photos: The Cannes Film Festival’s Golden Age: vanityfair.com

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Vanessa Redgrave

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Vanessa Redgrave - Trotskyist, Marxist, left-wing revolutionary, pro-Palestinian, Worker's Revolutionary Party devotee ... and that's only her political side!


"My paradox is that though I care a great deal about the masses - the orphans in Vietnam, the starving in India - I seem to care little about the individuals around me.  I've resisted that accusation.  But, quite bluntly, it's me."

The School of Wealthy Parenting

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Welcome to the Wellington Burt School for Wealthy Parenting.


A rich timber baron of Michigan, Wellington R. Burt, died in 1919 with a fortune but to protect his offspring, declared his fortune be bestowed 21 years after the death of his grandchildren.  His intent - to prevent the characters of his children and theirs becoming sullied by entitlement and avarice.  


Generation skipping trusts and myriad estate-planning structures have existed for years but typically spared the grandchildren.  This trust was particularly complex. 


Throughout their lives, Burt's children and grandchildren did receive small "allowances."  His family will now inherit approximately US$100 million and they are a substantially larger group of descendants.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

SeLEctIVe HiStorY

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Selective History in China.

Gunther Sachs

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Third Husband of Brigitte Bardot, she was his second betrothed, ended his life for reasons rumored to be the onset of Alzheimers disease.  


Gunther Sachs, heir of a major industrialist lived life on a grand scale of chic, class, style and debauchery.  His close friends  were Porfirio Rubirosa and Prince Aly Khan - playboys of esteemed proportions!


RIP. 

Monday, May 9, 2011

My childhood history

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Months ago feeling the slight effects of a white wine fog I recalled the moment when my fascination with all things history was born.  I grew up in a great house, which in my country are houses that were main houses on sugar plantations or houses built after the period but of similar design.  I cannot say in which category my childhood home fell but it was wooden with a wide, railed verandah that seemed impossibly long to our child's eyes, originally it had wrapped around the entire house but that was before we lived there.  The bedrooms had parts of that verandah too, ours resembled a screened-in porch to house our toys and the like,  our parents had one too but I cannot recall them using theirs'.


Our kitchen door had a roofed walkway that connected the house to a building just as long with several rooms; a family who worked with us lived in one of them, they had children too.  I recall playing with children whose parents were somehow connected to my father's work.


Our life began with the animals, there were so many and I have loved them all my life.  Our days were spent with dogs, goats, horses, guinea pigs, ducks, geese, a donkey named Jenny, and so many more; when you are five and six years old, how can you not love them?  Their personalities are like many friends come and gone.


We were busy children with a changing cast of friends - we followed a race for the goats, through a tunnel under the road called the culvert and turned left, to swing on vines that hung from eerie old trees, probably Guango.  There was a guava patch where we sometimes went with our mother to pick guavas she would stew, so sweet that even my sweet tooth struggled to finish.  I remember when the papaya trees grew in groves as tall as regular trees and then there were the fields of scotch bonnet peppers my father grew for export in jam jars - we would make our way to the factory and sometimes burned in agony for disobeying and exposing ourselves to the vinegar made lethal with bursted peppers.  There were millions of caterpillars and we collected them in jars - the poor things died - my one flirtation with cruelty.


All these voyages took hours it seemed for us children to journey from one side of the farm to the next, checking out everything and in with everyone.  The grandest memory I do recall, the start of my love of mystery and history were the stone ruins behind the house.  Now here, we walked in the opposite direction not down the race and in the culvert but behind the house across a long field, then another, then another and over a rather difficult barbed wire fence - we learned to cross many - either pulling the middle line taut and everyone climbed under, usually held by the oldest and strongest or crawling under the third line like a deranged stomach limbo, many snagged t-shirts, sometimes the wire held us at the waist of our shorts.  At long last we would arrive.  Now maybe this journey was short but for an eight year old, a dog, a little boy and my toddler brother, this motley crew took its time.  


The stone ruins fascinated me and I never understood why I would stare at them so.  The first time we saw them must have been with Collin - a name from my childhood I never forgot, his whole family worked with my parents and there were so many of them - we are a small family so it made a lasting impression.  I asked Collin what these walls could be - he sounded vague and little interested but said something about slavery.  What was that!  He told me people who looked like me enslaved people who looked like him.  What's that!


The ruins enthralled me.  The second time I ventured inside, I was asked why, what did I expect to find.  Imagine loving something so early in life and then growing up not having the faintest idea what to do with your life?  I loved history but what could I do with it in a third world country at war with its past?  I realize now my passions were clear, history and the animals.


So on that wine fogged night I recalled a little girl, her toddler brother, the ubiquitous dog, a slightly older boy or two, maybe a girl, names long forgotten, walking to visit the ruined walls and back home again.  What an idyllic childhood we lived.  How grand the days, how blessed were they.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Royally Beautiful

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Have a look see at beautiful royals the world over ... royal, rich and beautiful too.

Mommie Dearest

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It's Mother's Day ... take a quiz at the link ... by answering questions about your real mummy you will discover your alter-ego Hollywood mother!


My result below :-:





http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/quizzes/hollywoodmothers/hollywoodmothers/results/?entryId=505937348

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Losing Kardashian

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I've been watching more Kardashian reality - remembering it is always open season on folk who for a buck expoit their "reality".

Khloe & Lamar
I watch the latest Kardashian production because Lamar is a cool guy but never! God forbid! to watch Khloe.  Ugh ... she's a tiresome, whining, harpie. 

Her friend Malika quit as Khloe's personal assistant because the job blocked her ambitions to resume an acting career.  Malika's opportunity for an audition was dashed when bristling Khloe needed papers delivered and her planned meeting with Lamar meant Malika had to do it.  How important could the Lamar meeting be? The man is in LA with Khloe filming for reality tv.

Watching her future slip away as all things Khloe eclispe her, Malika decides to take a Khloe break and left her employ.  She plans to get a "regular" job that allows her time for auditions.  Hmmm - wouldn't a job with your best friend be the dream job that would accommodate Malika?  Not this job. 

Khloe's head is, as expected, still up her ass.


Rob Kardashian
What can I say?  The latest Kardash reality deal has revealed the softened loser that Rob Kardashian has grown up to be.  He lives in Lamar's house.  With Khloe and Lamar.  He does not work.

His cool swagger, painfully laid bare for not being there, is the mimicked black slang of Lamar Odom's world; Rob's smooth dude moves are unconvincing.  He resents Lamar's bestie Jamie and declares him a loser who lives off Lamar - while Rob is the brother who loves him who wants nothing in return.  So what does living in the man's house mean?  Rob is whack. 

How did Lamar come to deserve these two?

Pictures of Camouflage

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Pictures of camouflage - see American photos during the second world war after the bombing of Pearl Harbour, American ingenuity of outsmarting the enemy.

So cool ... so fantastic ... all at once!

Navy Seal Doggie

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Navy Seal dog who flew into Pakistan

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Oh for the love of the doggies ... in this case working dogs ... like the one who was lowered from helicopter into bin Laden's hide out.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1384137/Osama-Bin-Laden-death-CIA-agents-lived-spy-house-near-compound-MONTHS.html

Osama bin Laden is now deceased and thats the end of that although I must declare the greatness of British and American foreign policy in the past had been their constraint of emotion in dealing with matters of war and sovereignty.

Friday, May 6, 2011

Great Palaces

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Versailles
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Alhambra

Great Palaces all the world with wonderful stories of historical fortitude.