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Okay, I admit it.   I do struggle with  propriety .  [The quality or state of being proper or suitable.]   All the time, even though most of the time, it does come easily to me. However, not when it comes to art.  Or rather "art."  Then, I have to think  twice .  Because quite often the But, the things that disturbed me the most when I was a kid, often also stayed with me the longest and also informed who I am today.  Which I happen to, frankly, feel pretty good about.   So, the subject of what to post or c ast a spotlight on in  my blog, given my desire to be a decent and nurturing mother and guide to the children in my life, does quite often, stump me. What to share with others does sometimes cause me some real consternation. For instance right now, I'm a mom , and it's coming up on a family holiday there's really no good reason on God's green earth why in the hell I should enjoy or want to post this particular uber-creepy film clip other than to just s

God, I love shoes, but not just any shoes, THESE shoes. Seriously, I am 100 percent, crazy in love with them, and I'm not quite sure why, but I am. This was my week to casually glance through a Garnet Hill catalogue and fall head over heels in love with these Born brand dress shoes with slouchy ankle socks. Must. Have. Them. Now.

"Girls Just Need to Relax  --  or --  World Leaders and Strap-ons" This episode of I Can't Believe I'm Still Single, Episode 3, Season 3, opens with clip from film My Life's in Turnaround . ( Click here to read last week's episode recap of Episode 2, Season 3 ) Super ugly, bloated, dopey close up of Eric drooling over a "yuppie" blond lawyer.   Teeth crooked and dingy grey.  (I have a flashback to my high school days when I was in school with him after seeing this clip.   My God, he's invested in a lot of plastic surgery since then.) I marvel that this man stays employed. Shall I continue? We sit through those annoying opening credits with that obnoxious music. Next, close up.  Eric just as he is today.   Liposuctioned, plastic surgery,      [Note:  My sources tell me there has been zero plastic surgery or lipo.  So, to quote Vampire Weekend "I Stand Corrected."]    ... O lder.  Still talking.  Sti

I Can't I'm Believe Still Single , Season 3, Episode 2. Or:  How To Produce a Movie So Crappy Everyone Falls Into a Coma First. (For the record:  It's " My Life's In Turnaround 2 ") Seriously, what the fuck was that limp mess?  A comedy?  A documentary on film-making?  Or a cable access show shot in some creepy dude's apartment? Really?   That was the show?  Did I accidentally take an ambien before watching it? The beginning wasn't so bad.  The serious dialogue with Mark Ebner as an investigative reporter and Donal Ward appeared to be leading somewhere important.  I thought we might actually be setting the stage for something interesting, thematically.  Eventually.  It had to, right? But, then Eric gets in the car with his bag of God-only-knows what junk food and starts riffing on picking up chicks at his bank, and then the episode just falls to crap. The show also includes some humiliating, and really boring, audition session footage

I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M STILL SINGLE , SEASON THREE -- SHOW NUMBER ONE: Meet Eric Schaeffer: He has a "Semi auto-biographical" show about him not finding true love or anything resembling it for many a season on Showtime.  God only knows why. Here's an older promo for his former seasons.  I can't find one new to put here.  Guess there's no money for promotion at the network this year. Meet some of his loyal entourage (Who happen to really be the main reasons I now watch this.) Meet Mark Ebner  Meet Mark Ebner, a feisty die-hard investigative journalist, and self-described " New York Times Best Selling Author , " who also was Schaeffer's college pal way back when.  Schaeffer wisely added Mark to the show last season, presumably, to have a "straight man" to play off.   What Schaeffer may not have expected was that the onscreen presence of Ebner, who is so intuitively comfortable tooting his own horn, onl

Pogomix's newest offering brought a smile to my girls and I tonight as we all sniffled with our new November colds... Pogomix.net calls this track "Wishery," comprising vocal syllables, musical chords and sound effects recorded from the 1937 Disney classic Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.    And below is an Alice inspired confection. "there is a long way to love but i'm having trouble" The music video was composed using chords and vocal samples recorded from the Disney film 'Alice In Wonderland'. http://www.twitter.com/pogomix http://www.pogomix.net/

Yes, folks, this is it.  The Premiere of Season Three!!! The big night I have been waiting for...for...a while. Yes, tonight is Eric Schaeffer's next installment of his big-ass car crash of ego-driven self-blather regarding his endless quest to find someone to love. And once again we get to see more about why that's so not a surprise. Looking forward to it! I Can't Believe I'm Still Single from CouryC on Vimeo .

Okay, folks. Tea Party is out and voting today.  The lines are perky, and long and they all have wee chips on their shoulders...Trust me.  Just saw them all. So, unless you are a rabid tea-bagger, and you actually give a crap about this election, then I suggest you find a way to get in line and do some voting, because the lines were long with people wearing a lot of "red, white and blue!" (-- blech !) Here's my quick and easy two cents on how/why I voted in today's election (Take it for what it's worth.) Voted Democrat straight down the line -- all the main ones.  (Brown, Newsom, Bowen, Chiang, Lockyer, Harris, Jones, Heising, Boxer, Skipped the Justice stuff (Who cares?  Why bother?) Schools -- Your call.  Your District.  (My kids go in a different district, so I'm out of the loop, there, frankly.) Mayor:  Skipped.  I'm done.  They're all scary.  Winner takes the spoils. City of Westminster:  PENNY LOOMER -- Only Democrat there. PROPS:

Hmmm.  I don't know if I think this is actually  funny, or not. I happen to think it's a little shrill and lecure-y to be amusing, but I do think the sentiment is powerful. The truth is, anyone who decides they are too lazy, busy or apathetic to vote today has zero right to complain when it all goes from undeniably bad to very , very , very bad.   http://tinyurl.com/3ajavza   Moveon.org political campaign ad to bring people out to vote on November 2, 2010 elections. MoveOn.org's ad campaigns have stirred up plenty of controversy. "Situanderson" to Wed Nov. 2 Former Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson and Jersey Shore star "The Situation" announced their plans to tie the knot on November 2nd. The ceremony will be officiated by Snooki and televised on MTV, and may play a spoiler role in the mid-term elections. When asked if they'd be voting in the election or watching the nuptials, 78% of Americans responded "election?

I first saw Pina Bausch at The Brooklyn Academy of Music in the late fall of 1985.  Then, again in 1986.  I had no idea who she was when I was first invited to go see her work, and to be honest, had no idea what I was in store for when the lights went up. It was only after seeing  Pina Bausch 's Tanztheater Wuppertal perform that fall, when I finally discovered that a medium as elusive as "Dance" can provide work that is both exquisitely beautiful, heartbreaking and crashingly slapstick all at the same time. Director and choreographer Pina Bausch (July 27, 1940 - June 30, 2009) "Cafe Muller" (1978, TV version 1985) Cast: Pina Bausch, Malou Airaudo, Domenique Mercy, Jan Minarik, Nazareth Panadero, Jean Laurent Sasportes. Musiс by Henry Purcell / "The Fairy Queen" and "Dido and Aeneas" When I looked at the calendar change today, to November, I suddenly, inexplicably, had a flashback to this period in New York City of November in 1986