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Okay, didn't write this myself, however a subject near and dear to my heart.   New state law will require schools to stock EpiPens for students with allergies Orange County schools are gearing up to supply the  epinephrine  auto-injectors used to treat anaphylaxis . BY DEEPA BHARATH  / STAFF WRITER  Published: Dec. 16, 2014 Updated: 7:47 p.m. Juliet Larsen was only 15 months old when she took one bite of peanut butter. In less than two minutes, her heart stopped beating. “We took her to the hospital,” Louise Larsen, her mother, said about that day in 1997. “We almost lost our daughter.” Louise Larsen has been one of the most vocal advocates on social media and through her blog,  parentsofkidswithaseverepeanutallergy.blogspot.com , to make EpiPens mandatory in public schools. The devices are essentially auto-injectors that use epinephrine to quickly treat anaphylaxis, a severe, whole-body allergic reaction to allergens such as food, drugs or insect bite

Reporter: Christine Peddie at christine@allergicliving.com  Senior editor, Gwen Smith, at gwen@ allergicliving.com.   If this article made a difference to you, do share your thoughts with these two from Allergic Living Magazine as they were the ones thoughtful enough to share our story with their readers!   -- Thank you!  -- Louise Larsen

Splitscreen: A Love Story from James W Griffiths on Vimeo .

LOVE JAPAN from David Anthony Parkinson on Vimeo .

LA Light from Colin Rich on Vimeo .

LOVE from Jason Silva on Vimeo .

BULLETPROOF THOUGHTS #2. Ray Bradbury from Antoni Sendra // PODENCO on Vimeo .

Great tune from Röyksopp. Waiting for someone clever to come up with a decent video to that one, but here's one for another tune on their latest album.

Check out director Hiro Murai's visually more slick-than-poetry version of "Do You." Do you run when it's just getting good?

David Fincher - And the Other Way is Wrong from Tony Zhou on Vimeo .

Even the road to Las Vegas is filled with beauty. In love with the skies, too

Do not hesitate to order your copy of Zooey Magazine, Issue #21 to read my story! It was inspired by Zooey Magazine's piece entitled "Letters To My Younger Self." In my case, it is a letter to my almos t 30 year-old self, written while still living in Brooklyn Heights on the brink of so very much ... ORDER ZOOEY ISSUE 21  HERE! Blossom - ISSUE 21 (PRINT)  20.00 Here's how Zooey is describing this edition -- Issue 21 is our Fall edition, and its theme is: blossom. Metaphorically, it’s about the individual blooming in a time where all surrounding things begin to wither away. Literally, florals are all over our issue.  We explore a creative lifestyle around flowers in this issue, a contrast to fall concepts because we have a disdain for the conventional.  Features cover girls Lauren Paul and Molly Thompson of the Kind Campaign, photographed by Brandon Kidd Includes Zooey's "4th Annual Television Guide" (ft. 18 different actors), poems by

Current ear candy I just cannot get enough of. The low-tech KCRW video sort-of makes up for giving up my ticket to the Beck concert last weekend. Inside Out Spoon Time's gone inside out Time gets distorted with This intense gravity I don't got time for holy rollers But then they wash my feet And I won't be their soldier There's intense gravity Yeah, there's intense gravity I'm just your satellite I'm just your satellite Ooh, and I know that time's gone inside out And now it's only like we told you Hm, oh then they wash my feet They do not make me complete Break out a character for me Time keeps on going when We got nothing else to give We got nothing else to give Ooh, 'cause our time's gone inside out I don't make time for holy rollers Hm, there's only you I need They do not make me complete

To be able to remain this in love to the very end seems -- in this day and age -- almost impossible to accomplish.  However, here is seemingly proof that true love can occasionally survive impossible distances and insurmountable obstacles.

Where I first fell in love with movies. The Latchis Movie Theater, on lower Main Street, Brattleboro, Vt.  With it's echoey, magical astrological stars on the rain stained ceiling...and it's roman fantasy side balconies... To the now gone, Paramount Movie Theater, on upper Main Street, Brattleboro, Vt.   Right next to the Woolworths store, which smelled like popcorn and bubble gum and had little green box turtles in the very back.  And it was right across the street from Dunkin' Donuts, on the corner next the the Brooks House, where I got my hair cut on the very tip, top of the building in the gondola room. The Paramount had 75 cent double features on Saturday afternoons.  Two movies and a pop corn for less than a dollar. I remember never being more scared than I was watching The Something of Dracula.  When Dracula drank blood his eyes got bigger and bigger till they exploded.  I was traumatized for life. But, the pop corn...Oh, the pop corn th

Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Williams -- how many more talented, sensitive, articulate, brilliant people must we lose to the isolation of pain, depression and addiction?  It's all because the pain became too hard to cope with.  It's all about getting rid of the unbearable pain of despair.  And we lose all humanity if we presume to judge this condition. Pain steals all judgement, logic, strength and contorts them all into something small, slippery, and utterly impossible to manage on our own after a certain point.  And often, it's our most sensitive people who dare walk out to the edge of these places.  We need to call them back to us when they do.   It takes a village to save our friends from this place.  It only takes one moment to turn someone around, at least for that day.  They may continue to need turning around, but every day is a gift and worth fighting for. Clarity lies in knowing when a tolerable pain, which life is naturally filled with as the inevitable byp

"Video"  By Aimee Mann Tell me why I feel so bad, honey TV's flat and nothing is funny I get sad and stuck in a cone of silence Like a big balloon with nothing for ballast Labeled like a bottle for Alice Drink me down or I'll drown in a sea of giants And tell me, "Baby, baby, I love you It's nonstop memories of you It's like a video of you playing It's all loops of seven-hour kisses Cut with a couple near-misses Back to the scene of the actor saying: 'Tell me, baby, baby – why do I feel so bad?'" Tell me why I feel so bad, honey Fighting left me plenty of money But didn't keep the promise of memory lapses Like a building that's been slated for blasting I'm the proof that nothing is lasting Counting to eleven as it collapses And tell me, "Baby, baby, I love you It's nonstop memories of you It's like a video of you playing It's all loops of seven-hour kis

If you went to the Orange County Fair last year on July 13, 2013 -- you just might find your photos, here. Again by popular demand -- A day at The Orange County Fair,  For MORE OF   Louise's visual journey of The OC Fair, 7/13/13 by louise larsen CLICK THERE ^

SUBURBIA from Antonio Oreña-Barlin on Vimeo .

Hands of Bresson from kogonada on Vimeo . A visual essay on the tactile world of Robert Bresson created for the Criterion Collection. // criterion.com Music: Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 20, D. 959 (used in Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar)

(Ask any mom of a college-bound teen: We are all still slightly in love with Steve from Blues Clues. And consider "Joe" little more than a tacky poser.)

Honor of a lifetime!  A feature in  ZOOEY magazine  by who? By yours truly. But, if anyone considers what I've done in the superhero status because of the food allergy activism I've done, or the work I've gone to from having a child with a peanut allergy, has no idea how easy I've had things compared to so many other parents of much more allergic kids.  I've had it easy. The feature is about my journey raising a child with a severe peanut allergy.  And it's just a taste of what my book is about.  I have been working on a book about everything I've learned in my seven years of founding and administrating a very active, fast-growing support  group of nearly 6,000 thousand people called  Parents Of Kids With A Severe Peanut Allergy .  A group of parents who find themselves in the very same boat of being new parents at the same time they also find themselves unexpectedly saddled with the additional burden that their beloved child can die from something neede

Perfect opening monologue. I've never forgotten this young actress's voice and the way her rough, honest, simple delivery sets up the rest of the film so powerfully.  It's rare you can use a vocal quality to set a naturalistic tone for an entire film like Malick does with this one.

stay tuned for video after opening credits   on writing  Not California -- 'It came together from watching a lot of  The O.C.  and  Laguna Beach ,' Messe says with a laugh. 'My wife is a fan of those shows, and I would watch them with her. Every time I would watch those shows, I felt like after the show was over, I would feel a little less satisfied with my life. I would feel my world was more black and white, and I would feel poor and fat. I wanted to reject that,' he continues. 'I feel we're incredibly lucky both as a band and as people, and yet we're still able to fall prey to the way the media romanticizes certain wealth and privilege. For me, it had a way of making me feel bad about my life. The line 'And I'm the one who wants to be with you tonight...,' I'm talking about my wife and my life. That soft-focused consumerism s