October 2010
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May 2010
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These Were Their Stories.... →
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I remember when there were back-to-back reruns of L&O ‘the original’ on A&E everyday. I was so obsessed that I printed out the episode descriptions and highlighted each title as it aired, keeping track of how many I had seen. One summer in high school when I participated in a mock-trial program in D.C., after delivering my ‘opening statement’ I was asked by the ‘judge’ if I watched Law & Order. Clearly my TV-watching paid off!
It really is (was?) a brilliant show, and I’m grateful that it ‘gave birth’ to L&O: SVU. NBC Execs BEWARE: You mess with my SVU, you mess with me!
“As I watch the drops of rain
Leave their weary paths and die
I know that I am like the rain
There before the grace of you go I.” —Simon & Garfunkel
Leave their weary paths and die
I know that I am like the rain
There before the grace of you go I.” —Simon & Garfunkel
March 2010
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February 2010
3 posts
The 50 Most Deserving Oscar Winners of All Time →
newyork.timeout.com
(via nyminute)
It’s fun to ponder….
December 2009
6 posts
29 Years Today
- Reporter: George, what do you miss most about John Lennon?
- George: John Lennon.
November 2009
86 posts
“There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.”
—Audrey Hepburn (via kari-shma)
Watching Cash Cab
Makes me want to move to Manhattan every time.
I’d hate to burst your bubble, but you’ll never catch the Cash Cab. They cast for the show. I was cast for the show, along with a friend. They put you through this clever ruse where they tell you you’re going to be on a different show, then hail a cab for you to go to the filming location, and lo and behold, it’s the Cash Cab!
I saw right through it, though. I was telling people before it happened that I was going to be in the Cash Cab.
And no, we didn’t win. We got kicked out 3 blocks from our destination with $550. Tragic.
Oh man… my sister is going to be SO disappointed.
What a great show…is it still on?! Amidst my House, SVU, Glee, SYTYCD, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bored to Death, Gossip Girl, Intervention, Real Housewives, Lie to Me, Mad Men madness (yes I have all those shows in my series manager), I hadn’t noticed if it’s on!
“When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun’.”
—Groucho Marx (via kari-shma)
“When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.”
—Paul Simon, “Kodachrome”
Neko Case →
nekocase.com
On Monday night I witnessed this quirky, feisty, ever-sexy woman making The Beacon quiver with her angelic voice and her seductively poetic songs. If you’re not yet familiar, become familiar.
“You better free you mind instead.”
—The Beatles
“That fucker is half-Irish! People just dwell on the Italian side far too much, as far as we’re concerned. He has that older kind of Irish lyricism. We never ran with the storytelling and the characters of Bruce Springsteen, but it always felt very familiar….”
—Bono
“He loves singing (“New York State of Mind”). He always fucks up the phrasing, but it’s Bruce’s way of doing it, and in some facacta way, it actually works.”
—Billy Joel
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
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Stephen King (via kari-shma)
My shrink once quoted this to me….
“Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.”
—Alan Moore (via kari-shma)
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This new model suggests that it’s a mistake to understand these “risk” genes only as liabilities. Yes, this new thinking goes, these bad genes can create dysfunction in unfavorable contexts—but they can also enhance function in favorable contexts. The genetic sensitivities to negative experience that the vulnerability hypothesis has identified, it follows, are just the downside of a bigger phenomenon: a heightened genetic sensitivity to all experience…
…This is a transformative, even startling view of human frailty and strength. For more than a decade, proponents of the vulnerability hypothesis have argued that certain gene variants underlie some of humankind’s most grievous problems: despair, alienation, cruelties both petty and epic. The orchid hypothesis accepts that proposition. But it adds, tantalizingly, that these same troublesome genes play a critical role in our species’ astounding success.
” —The Science of Success - The Atlantic (December 2009) (via psychotherapy)