go retro with edna million

don't kill me, mom.

one of a set.

ice cream land!

Old Ice Follies brochure from the early 50s

man, woman, argyle sock.

i'm a scorpio

From eHow: Wondering if your Scorpio stings? Unlikely! Wild, exciting, profound and complicated, Scorpios are fascinating companions.
1.	Looking for a carefree time? A Scorpio's intensity may not be your best bet.
2.	Be honest and considerate with a Scorpio. Like all water signs, they are very protective of their feelings, and a Scorpio's feelings are often strong and tumultuous.
3.	Expect the unexpected. Scorpios' motivations may be difficult to understand, but despite their reputation, they are unlikely to be harsh or vindictive.
4.	Take your date to the Ingmar Bergman film festival.
5.	Take your Scorpio out for a quiet dinner. A Scorpio enjoys the traditional pleasures.
6.	Keep in mind that underneath their sometimes odd exteriors, Scorpios crave kindness and understanding, like everyone else.

"hip hop rots your brain"

The Hip Hop Rots The Brain billboard phenomenon in the C-U area is a clever marketing ploy by Up A Notch records.  On their website on 1/4/05, they wrote,

"We wanted to do something different and innovative to create something with feelings, and our teaser campaign with Adams Outdoor Advertising did that. The slogan Hip Rots The Brain was used to get those that love hip hop their utmost attention and it did.”

The buzz it created had a quick internet presence, I found a few message boards with some dialogue about the campaign.

http://buzzmagazine.collegepublisher.com/news/2005/01/06/Intro/The-Joke.Is.On.Us-830897.shtml

http://www.adrants.com/2005/01/record-label-vandalizes-own-billboard.php

http://chambana.livejournal.com/819244.html

http://www.uchiphop.com/node/106

I drive past this particular one on my way to work and enjoyed the progression from its' original to the vandalized version. I especialled liked its' location, right in front of Po' Boy's BBQ by the train tracks in a pretty deserted industrial section of town. It was obvious it was a hoax but by who and why didn't become clear until after the billboards were splattered with Up A Notch's show information. I'm really impressed and happy that a local group were clever enough to come up with this idea. I wanted to post about this weeks ago but unfortunately didn't have the chance until now. The billboard's original version stated "Hip Hop Rots The Brain" with the "Coalition of Responsible Attentive Parents" (aka CRAP).

clean living room

sit n spin

soap and whiskey

I am pretty sick right now. Cold/Flu kind of thing and I feel quite rotten so I have little ability to be witty or quick or remotely interesting right now, but for you, my dear readers ... reader .... mom .... I will try.

On Saturday night, I took my son to THE MALL. Always my favorite place to go. I really do hate the mall, even as a shopper extraordinaire, the mall is full of people I don't want to be within a 10 foot radius of. We went on the carousel and then had some dinner.
I had some california rolls, and Jack was so excited about his broccoli and cheddar cheese potato he would clench his fists and and shiver and go "MMMM!" as he ate it. Some other women and their kids were nearby and were mesmerized by him and asked me "does he always eat stuff like that?". I said, "sure. broccoli is his favorite food." They didn't even notice how he said "please", "thank you, mama", and "you're my best friend". I have this strangely perfect mother-child thing going on. I am trying to cherish this time period, as I do not forsee it continuing into his teen years, that's for certain. At least I can remind him, when he is telling me what a dork I am in ten years, that he used to say "mama, you my best friend forever" when he was three years old.

I woke up today and decided the only thing I could bring my aching body to do was to go to the Clinique counter at Bergner's and buy extremely expensive facial cleansers and mousturizers. Nothing like looking like a bag lady and going to the Clinique counter. I had a middle aged woman with a thick accent and too much make-up help me. Surprised?

I told her I was sick and I just wanted a facial cleansing system for my skin that was mild enough not to give me dry skin while helping with breakouts. We talked abotu how stress affected my skin.

She tried to ask me in bad English if I took any medications, you know, 'those kind'. I do.

She told me to throw them away and buy some whiskey. I kid you not. She said' "You drink big glass of water, you drink small amount, ok like small tiny cup, ok, it's a shot, of whiskey ... nothing weaker than black lay-bell, that is what I am told, not blue (?) lay-bell, only black lay-bell, stronger kind, and you drink this little cup, then you drink another big glass of water. You do this in morning and again at night, it work like miracle. Poof. No medication."

"Just don't become alcoholic or anything."

I have a feeling I will be a long-time customer at the Bergner's Clinque counter. Tomorrow I am calling my physician and telling him I would like to stop taking my 'medications' for a more holistic approach.

Expensive soap and a daily shot of whiskey.

i think i'm ok

I have to post introductory "about me" posts in my online courses all the time and I am so tired of it I have begun to get more relaxed with it and goofy. I thought I'd share my most recent "Intro" post for one of my new classes:

Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:00am

Hello, I am a 29 year-old, second-semester, Junior? Senior?, Continuing Education, BOT student, living in Champaign, IL. That’s almost as long of a description as my morning triple shot skim mocha latte in a double size cup no whip to go.

I attended college about eleven years ago as a Music Theory and Jazz Voice major and then switched to Communications Media with a Photography concentration. After two years, I left school for a long time and worked as a custom black and white printer / lab technician … among a slew of other things, had a son in January 2002, and went back to school in January 2003, graduating from Parkland last spring with my A.A. in Mass Comm: Advertising/P.R.

Since last January I have been a single mom & my son is now three years old. I work full time as a Business Development Specialist in the Marketing department at a large direct mail fulfillment company. I love my job, it’s exciting to contact major companies (this week I’ve been working on ****** and *******!) and begin a vendor relationship process with executives at huge companies from all over the country. I’ve recently created a training manual for my company’s computer data management system that I’m pretty proud of and our company is growing so fast my job changes daily and becomes more involved all the time. Somehow I have managed to attend school full time on top of this, and do well in my courses. I don't sleep much. I also love studying history and literature. I plan to continue my studies into graduate work in Communications and eventually work in media research, advertising, or in some form of media management.

Outside of school, work, and child, I’ve done some freelance photography, web design and graphic design and I run a few websites for various groups I am involved in.

In “real life”, in my “spare time”, I enjoy playing (and winning!) in poker tournaments, knitting like a fiend, photography, baking, tattoos, greasy spoon diner-coffee shops, the small pleasures - good food, good drink, good conversation, collecting kitsch from the 1930s-60s, watching foreign art films and old movie-musicals, playing with my son, being fabulous, and running up large phone bills to my family in Pennsylvania.

80s Lyrics "A"

I've decided to start writing a series of posts featuring the 'best' in 80s lyrics from A-Z. Enjoy.

Today we will look at "AEIOU and sometimes Y" by Ebn-Ozn.

Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore....
I was walking up Broadway you know
and there's this incredible looking Swedish girl having a
Cappuccino across the street from Lincoln Center, I started
talking to her you know - She said her name was Lola,
Her English wasn't too good you know - but we wound up spending
about 5 hours together just hanging out you know.
So We go back to my place - we get high - we get really into each other man.
It was love about to happen...I'm serious.
And then all of a sudden she gets up and she says, she says "Hey, I really gotta leave"
Damn
A E I O U Sometimes Y
There are 178 parent languages on our planet with over 1000 dialects...
It's amazing we communicate at all.
Languages and dialects - with this one thing in common:
A E I O U Sometimes Y
Ahhh!
A E I O U A E I O U A E I O U A E I O U
Sometimes Y!!
But you know I was really flipped out you know and she asked me
if I'm angry or something I said of course I'm angry man this
isn't high school or anything you know so I'm feeling really
cavalier and I say ah...call me if you want to...
huh, yeah...call me if you want to
So she rang me up and she says, "Hey! Do you wanna go out?"
Huh, Do I wanna go out
A E I O U Sometimes Y
A E I O U Sometimes Y
Operator! Operator! What's happening operator?!
Mommy? Mommy Mommy!! Where are you
Mommy? I can't see you
I can't see you Mommy!
All artists, potentially, are the victims of their desire to be unique
Just observe it
Don't fight it
Work it. Work it. Work it. Work it. Work it.
Yeah she took me home man she threw me all
around the room man
I mean this chick was really hot she was nice
to me you know
She let me keep on my cowboy boots and everything...she was
Allright... oh! oh! yeah! oh! oh! oh! oh! ohhhhhh!!!
I dare you to play this record
A E I O U Sometimes Y
A E I O U Sometimes Y
Anyway so she took me home and she
splattered my brains
Yeah there I am there I am what happened what happened
Where was I oh here I am
I told her I wouldn't sleep with her friends - she
Doesn't sleep with my friends Anything else you do
You know...Don't you tell me
Lola

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