I'm in vacation mode, what with a train ride to Colorado in less than two days...
Friday, November 21, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Reasons CSI: NY is better than CSI: Miami
In my book, anyway.
1. It stars Gary Sinise. (Effin' Lieutenant Dan!!!)
2. Eddie Cahill co-stars in it.
3. The stories are far-fetched, yet fun.
4. It doesn't take place in Florida.
5. It is sexier than CSI: Miami. (See #1 & #7.)
6. It featured the Suicide Girls.
7. It doesn't star this guy. (I just can't stand the way he talks!)
1. It stars Gary Sinise. (Effin' Lieutenant Dan!!!)
2. Eddie Cahill co-stars in it.
3. The stories are far-fetched, yet fun.
4. It doesn't take place in Florida.
5. It is sexier than CSI: Miami. (See #1 & #7.)
6. It featured the Suicide Girls.
7. It doesn't star this guy. (I just can't stand the way he talks!)
California Supreme Court agrees to consider challenges to Prop. 8
The California Supreme Court agreed to consider challenges to Proposition 8, the voter-approved ballot measure that bans gay marriage in the state. But the court also said Prop. 8 must be enforced while it considers the challenges.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Yay for these people!!
Report: Mormon Families Leave Church Over Prop 8
Written for the web by/Posted By: C. Johnson, Internet News Producer
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - There's backlash against the LDS church over Proposition 8. LDS members in Utah, even some entire families are leaving the church because of its opposition to gay marriage.
It isn't easy but Linda Stay is resigning from the LDS church and is doing so because the church opposes gay marriage - like the one her son Tyler is in.
"It's very clear to me that many, many people are resigning over this gay marriage issue and the church's involvement in it," said Andrew Callahan.
The last time Utah saw Callahan, he was delivering petitions to the LDS church.
But now, on Callahan's Web site there is a new section. It's reserved for those resigning from or leaving the LDS church.
And Callahan tells the story of one heartbroken woman in California.
"She doesn't want to be associated with the bigotry and she doesn't want, in any way, to be responsible for teaching the young children to be bigots," Callahan wrote.
Callahan estimated on his Web site he's heard from hundreds of resigned or resigning LDS members. This includes not just Stay but also nine other members of her family.
Callahan also said it includes his 16 year old daughter - but not yet him.
"I am disgusted as everyone else, but because they asked me to resign, I don't want them to feel they got what they wanted," he said.
Callahan's Web site also includes a link to something called mormonnomore.com. The site includes step by step instructions for leaving the LDS faith.
Callahan noted that since the Salt Lake Temple protest Friday, more than 200 LDS members on his Web site have decided to leave the church.
Because of the private nature of resignations, the LDS church says it is not commenting on this story.
Written for the web by/Posted By: C. Johnson, Internet News Producer
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - There's backlash against the LDS church over Proposition 8. LDS members in Utah, even some entire families are leaving the church because of its opposition to gay marriage.
It isn't easy but Linda Stay is resigning from the LDS church and is doing so because the church opposes gay marriage - like the one her son Tyler is in.
"It's very clear to me that many, many people are resigning over this gay marriage issue and the church's involvement in it," said Andrew Callahan.
The last time Utah saw Callahan, he was delivering petitions to the LDS church.
But now, on Callahan's Web site there is a new section. It's reserved for those resigning from or leaving the LDS church.
And Callahan tells the story of one heartbroken woman in California.
"She doesn't want to be associated with the bigotry and she doesn't want, in any way, to be responsible for teaching the young children to be bigots," Callahan wrote.
Callahan estimated on his Web site he's heard from hundreds of resigned or resigning LDS members. This includes not just Stay but also nine other members of her family.
Callahan also said it includes his 16 year old daughter - but not yet him.
"I am disgusted as everyone else, but because they asked me to resign, I don't want them to feel they got what they wanted," he said.
Callahan's Web site also includes a link to something called mormonnomore.com. The site includes step by step instructions for leaving the LDS faith.
Callahan noted that since the Salt Lake Temple protest Friday, more than 200 LDS members on his Web site have decided to leave the church.
Because of the private nature of resignations, the LDS church says it is not commenting on this story.
Monday, November 10, 2008
We want more PR!! (Project Runway, that is.)
A fan laments uncertainty of ‘Project Runway’
After five seasons, fate of reality show is unclear as legal battle rages on
By DIONNE WALKER
Associated Press Writer
updated 3:42 p.m. PT, Wed., Oct. 29, 2008
For five seasons "Project Runway" has been a midweek treat for fashion junkies like me, who tuned in faithfully, rapt in every stitch on the way to the New York Fashion Week finale and one designer's ultimate victory.
Now a legal fight between NBC Universal, parent to Bravo, and the Weinstein Co., the show's producers, threatens to give one of the best things to happen to the genre an undue snip, and leave style fans on the sewing room floor.
(TODAYshow.com is a joint venture between NBC Universal and Microsoft)
What will happen to this show where contestants are judged solely on their own creativity and skill? They don't get "life lines." They are not subjected to popular vote. They don't have to depend on alliances.
They just need the good nature and the guts to defend the piles of fabric, buttons and pins that they called their vision.
It's brought us some good times:
I still pine for season one winner Jay McCarroll's mini-dress interpretation of the Chrysler building, a silky belted number combining smoky grays, ribbon detailing and pinpoint geometric details to produce a dead-on interpretation of one of New York's most recognizable landmarks. If you're reading Jay, I need that in a petite!
The same season saw lovably over-the-top designer Austin Scarlett create perhaps the most memorable look of the series in a chic, wearable A-line dress made from, of all things, layers of dried corn husks.
Woven in with talent, of course, was drama.
Season two's quirky Santino Rice cemented a tradition of smart-allecky designers with his dead-on imitation of starched show mentor Tim Gunn. He was surpassed only by this season's resident villain Kenley Collins, whose hand-painted, pinup-inspired looks propelled her into the finals, teeth sucking and eye-rolling aside.
Last year's winner Christian Siriano earned the title for most acid-tongued of the series: He spent most of the season pronouncing his competitors' designs butt ugly, and recently tapped Leanne this season's Bryant Park winner by default, "Because everything else was not cute."
There were fights over the wrong-colored thread left carelessly lodged in communal sewing machines — the nerve! — and for good measure, tears, tears, tears. Who knew chiffon could be so tragic?
But scandals didn't get any bigger than Kara Saun's season one "shoegate," the last-minute debacle that resulted when Saun inexplicably tried to use high-end shoes she'd gotten for free in her finale show, a violation of the rules.
Saun ultimately tanked, the first in what would become a chain of black designers reaching the finals only to fall short of the finish line. Their losses culminated in the last-minute defeat of this season's Korto Momolu, and seemed to highlight a concern that's gotten increasing attention in recent years — that for black designers, perhaps even more than for black models, shattering fashion's glass ceiling remains elusive.
[Alie: Maybe now that we have a half-black man in the highest office in the land, this opinion will change.]
Whether Project Runway will launch another designer into the fashion elite remains to be seen.
A New York Supreme Court justice recently issued a preliminary injunction blocking a $150 million deal to take the show to Lifetime network until NBC's suit trying to stop the move is settled. The new season had been scheduled to start in January.
Meanwhile, Weinstein Co. has filed court papers alleging Bravo did not properly promote the show, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
For now, it leaves Project Runway without a home, and fans like me on pins and needles.
After five seasons, fate of reality show is unclear as legal battle rages on
By DIONNE WALKER
Associated Press Writer
updated 3:42 p.m. PT, Wed., Oct. 29, 2008
For five seasons "Project Runway" has been a midweek treat for fashion junkies like me, who tuned in faithfully, rapt in every stitch on the way to the New York Fashion Week finale and one designer's ultimate victory.
Now a legal fight between NBC Universal, parent to Bravo, and the Weinstein Co., the show's producers, threatens to give one of the best things to happen to the genre an undue snip, and leave style fans on the sewing room floor.
(TODAYshow.com is a joint venture between NBC Universal and Microsoft)
What will happen to this show where contestants are judged solely on their own creativity and skill? They don't get "life lines." They are not subjected to popular vote. They don't have to depend on alliances.
They just need the good nature and the guts to defend the piles of fabric, buttons and pins that they called their vision.
It's brought us some good times:
I still pine for season one winner Jay McCarroll's mini-dress interpretation of the Chrysler building, a silky belted number combining smoky grays, ribbon detailing and pinpoint geometric details to produce a dead-on interpretation of one of New York's most recognizable landmarks. If you're reading Jay, I need that in a petite!
The same season saw lovably over-the-top designer Austin Scarlett create perhaps the most memorable look of the series in a chic, wearable A-line dress made from, of all things, layers of dried corn husks.
Woven in with talent, of course, was drama.
Season two's quirky Santino Rice cemented a tradition of smart-allecky designers with his dead-on imitation of starched show mentor Tim Gunn. He was surpassed only by this season's resident villain Kenley Collins, whose hand-painted, pinup-inspired looks propelled her into the finals, teeth sucking and eye-rolling aside.
Last year's winner Christian Siriano earned the title for most acid-tongued of the series: He spent most of the season pronouncing his competitors' designs butt ugly, and recently tapped Leanne this season's Bryant Park winner by default, "Because everything else was not cute."
There were fights over the wrong-colored thread left carelessly lodged in communal sewing machines — the nerve! — and for good measure, tears, tears, tears. Who knew chiffon could be so tragic?
But scandals didn't get any bigger than Kara Saun's season one "shoegate," the last-minute debacle that resulted when Saun inexplicably tried to use high-end shoes she'd gotten for free in her finale show, a violation of the rules.
Saun ultimately tanked, the first in what would become a chain of black designers reaching the finals only to fall short of the finish line. Their losses culminated in the last-minute defeat of this season's Korto Momolu, and seemed to highlight a concern that's gotten increasing attention in recent years — that for black designers, perhaps even more than for black models, shattering fashion's glass ceiling remains elusive.
[Alie: Maybe now that we have a half-black man in the highest office in the land, this opinion will change.]
Whether Project Runway will launch another designer into the fashion elite remains to be seen.
A New York Supreme Court justice recently issued a preliminary injunction blocking a $150 million deal to take the show to Lifetime network until NBC's suit trying to stop the move is settled. The new season had been scheduled to start in January.
Meanwhile, Weinstein Co. has filed court papers alleging Bravo did not properly promote the show, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
For now, it leaves Project Runway without a home, and fans like me on pins and needles.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Prop 8 with 101 update.
Now that Barack Obama is our president, it is insane to think that there are still people in this country who don't have fundamental rights! Proposition 8 - and equal marriage rights for all Californians - was brutally shot down earlier this week. As an individual voice of protest, I have joined an underground photographic blog movement. (Huzzah! I'm no 32!) If one photo is worth a thousand words, I hope mine will speak volumes.
I love Micah. He is my family, in every way. If anything were to happen to either of us while we are still not married, we wouldn't have any rights to each other, and it doesn't make sense to me that we wouldn't have those fundamental rights. That is why I voted No on Prop 8 two days ago, because EVERY Californian should be able to chose their family. Marriage isn't a sacred rite, it's a civil right.
Let's keep fighting for legal marriage equality.
If you would like to keep fighting for marriage EQUALITY, check out any of the following links...
http://offbeatbride.com/2008/11/let-freedom-ring#referrer
http://www.eatingoutloud.com/prop-8
http://www.diaryofamodernmatriarch.com/2008/11/let-freedom-ring.html
http://www.eqca.org/site/pp.asp?c=kuLRJ9MRKrH&b=4026385
In 101 in 1001 news, here are some of the photos I thought might be worth posting. (Let me know if you can't see them.)
Never
Never
Never
Give Up!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Barak Obama
Is our 44th President. Suck it all you people who said we weren't ready for a black president! (NKR!!)
Yes we did!! I never thought I'd feel the way I do. This truly is a great day, but as Barack told us, we have a long way to go. I have had my faith and love of America restored in an instant... This is a day for all Americans, not black or white or Hispanic or Asian or young or old or rich or poor or gay or straight, but for ALL Americans. I'm so grateful that I was able to share this with two people I love. Our hope has been restored, and we will work to make our decision speak to the world. I never thought I'd be so proud to have voted.
Now all we have to do is wait. Wait for our new president to take office with the beautiful first and second families. Wait to see if California will support fundamental rights. Wait to see if the recession and war will end. But I don't think I've ever felt - oddly enough - blessed to be an American.
I don't know if or when this is really going to sink in, but OUR VOICE MATTERS!! This truly is an amazing day in history. I'm glad for the people I love who are still here to see this.
Si Se Puede! Yes We Can!
in 101 news...
31 - will post photos after standings on all California Props are posted.
33 - started first part
100 - done!!!
Yes we did!! I never thought I'd feel the way I do. This truly is a great day, but as Barack told us, we have a long way to go. I have had my faith and love of America restored in an instant... This is a day for all Americans, not black or white or Hispanic or Asian or young or old or rich or poor or gay or straight, but for ALL Americans. I'm so grateful that I was able to share this with two people I love. Our hope has been restored, and we will work to make our decision speak to the world. I never thought I'd be so proud to have voted.
Now all we have to do is wait. Wait for our new president to take office with the beautiful first and second families. Wait to see if California will support fundamental rights. Wait to see if the recession and war will end. But I don't think I've ever felt - oddly enough - blessed to be an American.
I don't know if or when this is really going to sink in, but OUR VOICE MATTERS!! This truly is an amazing day in history. I'm glad for the people I love who are still here to see this.
Si Se Puede! Yes We Can!
in 101 news...
31 - will post photos after standings on all California Props are posted.
33 - started first part
100 - done!!!
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