All You Need is Love

I was watching Moulin Rouge the other day and got thinking about the Elephant Love Medley. It is ironic because I am about to take a walking tour in San Francisco of the old brothels. The reason I mention irony is the premise of Moulin Rouge is that a writer falls in love with a […]

The 24 Most Important Things We All Learned From “My So-Called Life”

via BuzzFeed.com The 24 Most Important Things We All Learned From “My So-Called Life”Because “someone once set fire to my hair at Let’s Bolt,” here are some things you need to know. 1. Love at first sight is very, very real. 2. You can never wear too many accessories. 3. Or mix too many prints. […]

My doppelgängers

dop·pel·gäng·er /ˈdäpəlˌgaNGər/ Noun An apparition or double of a living person. Via Wikipedia.org. In fiction and folklore, a doppelgänger (German, literally a “double goer”) (pronounced [ˈdɔpəlˌɡɛŋɐ] ( listen)) is a paranormal double of a living person. It also describes the sensation of having glimpsed oneself in peripheral vision, in a position where there is no […]

Learning Languages

Bettes Davis Quotes

March 03

The Bucket List

Four years ago I completed an item on my bucket list without even realizing it. In 2009, I danced in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in a speedo and body paint. Let me tell you what courage is… being half naked in front of 300,000 people. It also, strangely enough, was a fulfilling […]

Frank Sinatra Quotes

“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.”

False Binaries

So my buddy… let’s just call him Wisdom from Chicago talked to me about false binaries. I was caught in a false dilemma: there were two options, but I didn’t believe that I could achieve them both. It is interesting when I use fallacy is used in an attempt to force a choice. Wisdom from Chicago […]

You know NBC’s ratings are bad when…

via EW.com. You know NBC’s ratings are bad when… NBC affiliate airs ‘Matlock’ instead of network’s Thursday shows An affiliate decides to air a 21-year-old Matlock movie instead of the network’s Thursday night programming. You know NBC’s ratings are really bad when… Matlock‘s ratings are not much different than the regular shows. On Thursday, Cleveland’s WKYC-TV opted to run a 1992 […]

Taking ‘Hunger Games’ into their own hands

via LATimes.com. For the love of the book. After reading “The Hunger Games,” four teens wanted the story to continue. So in 2010 they put it to video, starring themselves. Now their 10 installments have been viewed 4.5M times. Duncan Rule discovered “The Hunger Games” shortly after the novel came out four years ago. He […]