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The giant beach read destined to be a giant movie.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
First look ...
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The giant beach read destined to be a giant movie.
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The giant beach read destined to be a giant movie.
On this day ....
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IN MOVIE HISTORY
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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
.........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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RIP 28-5-2011 love forever OGee
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| to my beloved Kitty who lived and died on her own terms |
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| with mama |
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| sleep queen |
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| online |
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| she played scrabble too |
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| she loved her bling collar |
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| with ratty |
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| last photo of our Kitty |
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 |
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
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!
FUNNIEST movie ever!
Rare Colour Photos
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More iconic and rare colour photos from the 1940s. Looooove them!
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
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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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-
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| 104 years |
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!
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.
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.
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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!
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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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.
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| the lucky ones |
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.
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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!
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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.
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!!!
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."
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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.
Click topic for LINK
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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
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?
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!
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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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.
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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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Great Palaces all the world with wonderful stories of historical fortitude.
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| Versailles |
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| Alhambra |
Great Palaces all the world with wonderful stories of historical fortitude.
Friday, April 29, 2011
She did it!
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A princely feast of wedded bliss ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42799375/ns/today-today_people/?GT1=43001
http://www.people.com/people/
http://www.people.com/people/package/0,,20395222,00.html
http://www.people.com/people/0,,,00.html
http://www.life.com/gallery/59731/kate-middleton-the-beautiful-bride#index/0
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/entertainment/royalwedding/main504963.shtml?tag=cbsnewsTopThreePromoArea.0;fdRoyalWeddingPromo
http://www.people.com/people/package/gallery/0,,20395222_20485897,00.html
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| Waity Katie no more ... now Princess Catherine or HRH Duchess of Cambridge. |
A princely feast of wedded bliss ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42799375/ns/today-today_people/?GT1=43001
http://www.people.com/people/
http://www.people.com/people/package/0,,20395222,00.html
http://www.people.com/people/0,,,00.html
http://www.life.com/gallery/59731/kate-middleton-the-beautiful-bride#index/0
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/entertainment/royalwedding/main504963.shtml?tag=cbsnewsTopThreePromoArea.0;fdRoyalWeddingPromo
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
The eve ....
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Royal pARTY
http://royalwedding.yahoo.com/photos/sets/991/The-royal-wedding-party.html
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Royal pARTY
http://royalwedding.yahoo.com/photos/sets/991/The-royal-wedding-party.html
Royal Weddings
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Royal weddings ... on the eve of the latest installation
THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW ... VANITY FAIR COMPARES THE WEDDINGS OF DIANA AND KATE
http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/04/royal-wedding-then-and-now-slide-show-201104#slide=1
Catherine and Diana
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?searchPhrase=kate+and+diana
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Royal weddings ... on the eve of the latest installation
THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW ... VANITY FAIR COMPARES THE WEDDINGS OF DIANA AND KATE
http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/04/royal-wedding-then-and-now-slide-show-201104#slide=1
Catherine and Diana
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?searchPhrase=kate+and+diana
Harper Lee
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Famously reclusive author Harper Lee of To Kill a Mockingbird legend is subject of a biography The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee. Not surprising - Harper Lee has made it clear, she had nothing to do with the writing of that book.
To Kill a Mocking Bird was so pivotal in my development as it was for countless children, I am sure. Her book taught me about the world including my first shattering moment in the looming shadow of racial prejudice. I shared Scout and her double duo's carefree summers as only a child could and their mysteries and adventures on those lovely, long, hot days of summer.
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Famously reclusive author Harper Lee of To Kill a Mockingbird legend is subject of a biography The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee. Not surprising - Harper Lee has made it clear, she had nothing to do with the writing of that book.
To Kill a Mocking Bird was so pivotal in my development as it was for countless children, I am sure. Her book taught me about the world including my first shattering moment in the looming shadow of racial prejudice. I shared Scout and her double duo's carefree summers as only a child could and their mysteries and adventures on those lovely, long, hot days of summer.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Royal-look-a-likes
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People.com blasts to the past with a look at Royal-look-a-likes in history.
People.com blasts to the past with a look at Royal-look-a-likes in history.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Lizzie Borden
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120 years after Lizzie Borden was accused of murdering her parents, a new book may rewrite the history of her accusation. Much was written about her by people who knew nothing about her - building the myth of a cold murderous spinster. She was acquitted by an all male jury. There was no evidence against her after all. The
alleged murder weapon, a hatchet - is part of the Fall River Historical Society collection.
It was suggested that Lizzie's motive was the fear of her father dying before her step-mother and leaving herself and sister Emma at the mercy of his widow.
After the murders Lizzie de-camped to another mansion in Fall City that became a curiosity for passersby hoping for a glimpse of her at the windows. The murder house is now a bed & breakfast museum.
The events of August 4, 1892 and the woman at the center of it all will be cast in a new and humanizing light.
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120 years after Lizzie Borden was accused of murdering her parents, a new book may rewrite the history of her accusation. Much was written about her by people who knew nothing about her - building the myth of a cold murderous spinster. She was acquitted by an all male jury. There was no evidence against her after all. The
alleged murder weapon, a hatchet - is part of the Fall River Historical Society collection.
It was suggested that Lizzie's motive was the fear of her father dying before her step-mother and leaving herself and sister Emma at the mercy of his widow.
After the murders Lizzie de-camped to another mansion in Fall City that became a curiosity for passersby hoping for a glimpse of her at the windows. The murder house is now a bed & breakfast museum.
The events of August 4, 1892 and the woman at the center of it all will be cast in a new and humanizing light.
The Real Bond 007
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Geoffrey Gordon Creed
major in the British Army, spy, handsome serial seducer and war hero who moved to Jamaica in 1952 and befriended Ian Fleming, creator of the fictonal character James Bond.
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Geoffrey Gordon Creed
major in the British Army, spy, handsome serial seducer and war hero who moved to Jamaica in 1952 and befriended Ian Fleming, creator of the fictonal character James Bond.
RHWO New York
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A new feud on the Real Housewives of New York has erupted between Alex McCord and Sonja Morgan with a poll to match that Alex is winnng handsomely.
The New York cast have a bee in their collective bonnet about class/social standing, more so than the cast of Beverly Hills, although Camille Grammer was the instigator on that cast and we all know she is possibly the least well born of that bunch.
On New York there is the insufferably pretentious LuAnn de Lesseps who clings desperately to her countess title and Jill Zarin, a sniping mean girl obsessed with being better than, sometimes equal to but never a lesser being of "Nuu Yaaak" society in her awful NY drawl.
Kelly Bensimon and Ramona Singer appear the most socially relaxed of the bunch while they all believe Alex and her husband Simon are clawing their way to a loftier position.
Which brings me finally to Sonja Morgan who in every other way is pretty, witty and fun except in the last episode when she kept screaming at Alex for having "the worst manners." Sonja was horrible, as if she were a little girl used to having her way, a deranged selfishness that is alarmingly unbecoming.
Sonja's entitlement is as off putting as a recent display by Bethenny Frankel on Bethenny Ever After during her birthday episode which became an excuse to behave like an over wrought toddler at her first birthday party who had missed her afternoon nap.
These women could consider growing up.
Sonja/Alex poll at the link.
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A new feud on the Real Housewives of New York has erupted between Alex McCord and Sonja Morgan with a poll to match that Alex is winnng handsomely.
The New York cast have a bee in their collective bonnet about class/social standing, more so than the cast of Beverly Hills, although Camille Grammer was the instigator on that cast and we all know she is possibly the least well born of that bunch.
Kelly Bensimon and Ramona Singer appear the most socially relaxed of the bunch while they all believe Alex and her husband Simon are clawing their way to a loftier position.
Which brings me finally to Sonja Morgan who in every other way is pretty, witty and fun except in the last episode when she kept screaming at Alex for having "the worst manners." Sonja was horrible, as if she were a little girl used to having her way, a deranged selfishness that is alarmingly unbecoming.
Sonja's entitlement is as off putting as a recent display by Bethenny Frankel on Bethenny Ever After during her birthday episode which became an excuse to behave like an over wrought toddler at her first birthday party who had missed her afternoon nap.
These women could consider growing up.
Sonja/Alex poll at the link.
5oth Anniversary
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The 50 year anniversary of the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the founders of the "Revolution" were celebrated this week in Cuba. Another display of Nothern aggression? I jest ... view reminiscent of the Southern states in the American civil war.
Cuba celebrated the defeat of the CIA-backed invasion dubbed the "first defeat of imperialism in the Americas." It was a big deal in its day - a veritable sh#& storm.
The bad ole cold war days.
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The 50 year anniversary of the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the founders of the "Revolution" were celebrated this week in Cuba. Another display of Nothern aggression? I jest ... view reminiscent of the Southern states in the American civil war.
Cuba celebrated the defeat of the CIA-backed invasion dubbed the "first defeat of imperialism in the Americas." It was a big deal in its day - a veritable sh#& storm.
The bad ole cold war days.
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