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To be honest, I've blogged about this before , but it's worthy of blogging about again . The book Where The Wild Things Are is a must have for any one's personal book collection, period. If you know someone who just had a baby, then be the first person to add this treasured book to that child's library. It's a classic's classic. It put the book's author, Maurice Sendak, right up front and center regarding children's literature and raised the bar so much higher for every other illustrator and author for the rest of all time. Embedded here in this blog post are two different video versions of this groundbreaking illustrated classic. The first one is a video of "Where The Wild Things Are" which you probably had to watch on rainy days at school in the "Media Center." (If you are my age, they called that place a "library" and it's where they kept all those clunky things we call books, today.) The first video wa...

So sad, but a love story, nonetheless.

Bret and Jemaine The duo rocked out at the 'Flight of the Conchords' Concert at The Greek ( Not Roman) Theater up in Los Angeles last night. The deadpan, dorky duo, The Flight of the Conchords , proved themselves to be as funny, if not funnier in person, and much, much better musicians than I ever expected. They're really great. I thought the show really came alive when they literally moved for their sets. Like, got up and moved about the stage, or reacted to unexpected antics from the audience. The energy level was a bit more sedate than I anticipated. If I have any one complaint it is that they seemed a bit too nailed to the spots where they played. Since the joke was often extremely deadpan, and often lost in a New Zealand accent, I fear that by not providing visual explanations in order to underscore their "irony," that a bit of the humor became lost in translation. Very good musicians and vocalists, though. Really. They mocked all of us Americans, for ...

Tonight Pete's got (writing a review for the Orange County Register) tix to see our top all-time favorite comedy singing duo " Flight Of The Conchords " for tonight's show at Los Angeles's Greek Theatre! -- Oh, yeah! In fact, all day has been a "red letter day." Woke up, the kids were happy, so I took a long bath! I never do that. We're planning to spend lazy afternoon at my favorite childhood friend's house up in LA and then go to what I can only predict will be one of the funniest music concerts, ever. Yes, we're going to hear Bret and Jemaine rockin' us under the stars at the Greek Amphitheater. Sweet! Yes!

Newsflash to man in show (Schaeffer) professing to want to get married and have children. Sunday will SO not be about you anymore. No day will be about you anymore. Get your brain around that. If you cannot handle this fact then just give up this fruitless search. In this week's episode of "I Can't Believe I'm Still Single" Mr. Eric Schaeffer and his motley crew (Clearly Em and Stas are exempt) travel from Kalamazoo to Chicago. This episode's date was with a woman who from Miami who agreed to fly to Chicago for her on-air date with Eric. Review: One half star: For not making me want to vomit as many times as he has previously. Here's what happened in this episode of "I Can't Believe I'm still Single." Blonde from Florida meets Eric Schaeffer on MySpace . She agrees to fly out to Chicago for a date with Eric Schaeffer. During her introduction at his hotel room she rolls about his bed like a drunk Pomeranian and spanks him with a ridin...

"You Can't Sing That!" Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009 Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Newport Harbor Lutheran Church Street: 798 Dover Drive City/Town: Newport Beach, CA Date: Sunday, May 31, 2009 Time: 3:00pm Location: St. Mary's Episcopal Church Street: 428 Park Avenue City/Town: Laguna Beach, CA A playful and thought-provoking celebration of authors and poets whose works have been banned, censored, or challenged throughout the centuries. The texts and authors featured in our final concert have all been the targets of censors over the years – but they’re some of the most intelligent and beautiful words we’ve ever sung! Hear the works of Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Lewis Carroll, Madeleine L’Engle, Anne Frank, and others, set to music by Norman Dello Joio, Irving Fine, Eric Whitacre, and many more. Presented in partnership with Latitude 33 Booksellers. -- We are singing two concerts and I'd love to see you there! Louise (on the left, of cou...

Louise on the Left's Cliff Notes for the lazy California Liberal Progressive. For those of us with busy lives and not enough time to research things fully, here are a few more links re: endorsements and recommendations regarding the California Special Elections May 19 th , 2009. Also, the election? It's today Like, Tuesday, May 19 th , today -- Later that day -- So, my husband I have been clicking around and STILL have been talking about what the right way to vote really is. It's confusing. He said "none of them will pass." I said "so, why don't we save them?" (I suddenly felt sorry for them. Like they'd been left at the animal shelter.) He said, "Well, because that first link you put up suggested not to." I asked him to recap for me why that was. He reminded me one of my first links was to a progressive group that urged people to vote "no" on all of them . "Why?" I asked, clearly still confused by it all. He f...