seriously amused

Do not litter

2009-06-02T19:30:00.002-04:00

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,

Nothing is going to get better. It's not." ~ Dr. Seuss, from The Lorax

Marilyn

2009-05-27T17:00:00.001-04:00

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." ~ Marilyn Monroe

On being a diva

2009-05-12T01:04:00.002-04:00

“I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.” ~ Courtney Love

Feeling it

2009-05-06T13:00:00.003-04:00

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." ~ Aldous Huxley

Smile magic

2009-04-30T15:11:00.006-04:00

"All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile." ~ Chris Hart

Story time

2009-04-24T10:46:00.002-04:00

"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues." ~ Bertrand Russell

Up for the challenge

2009-04-22T11:48:00.004-04:00

"When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it." ~ Margaret Chase Smith

We recycle

2009-04-20T17:43:00.006-04:00

"I intend to live forever. So far, so good." ~ Steven Wright

Stress management 101

2009-04-17T11:01:00.001-04:00

“Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

Out in the cold

2009-04-15T10:22:00.004-04:00

"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." ~ Mark Twain

Four Uggs to go...

2009-04-13T12:22:00.003-04:00

“I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.” ~ Bruce Oldfield (English Fashion designer)

Read all about it! Or not...

2009-04-09T13:12:00.004-04:00

"Try a "news fast" -- simply opt out of watching the news on television, reading newspapers, or following the news on the Internet for a few days or even a week. Taking periodic breaks from the news can promote mental calm and help renew your spirits. As a result, anxiety and overstimulation may be minimized, and your body will function better." ~ Dr. Andrew Weil

I PEE DAILY

2009-04-07T13:32:00.001-04:00

"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction." ~ Aneurin Bevan

Psychic

2009-04-06T13:38:00.013-04:00

“I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller -- to find out how they are.” ~ Richard Avedon

Today's horrorscope: Not a good day to rob your corner bank

2009-04-02T14:43:00.001-04:00

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Which Way to Easy Street?

2009-03-31T11:50:00.002-04:00

"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- which is: Try to please everybody." ~ Herbert Swope, address, Dec. 20, 1950

Please, give me a sign

2009-03-30T13:30:00.002-04:00

"People are hungry for messages of hope and life." ~ Morgan Brittany

Never be late for Sunday brunch

2009-03-27T11:04:00.001-04:00

"I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street." ~ Neil Armstrong on jogging, in an interview with Walter Cronkite

Doing it my way

2009-03-26T11:56:00.003-04:00

“I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.” ~ Anne Wilson Schaef

Love -- it's worth embracing

2009-03-25T11:08:00.003-04:00

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." ~ Albert Einstein

I've loved you so long

2009-03-24T11:34:00.002-04:00

"One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love." ~ Elizabeth Aston

Spring, when a person's fancy turns to...

2009-03-23T13:39:00.004-04:00

"You call it madness, but I call it love." ~ Don Byas

Moving on to spring...

2009-03-20T11:30:00.002-04:00

"The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month." ~ Henry Van Dyke

Layered

2009-03-19T12:07:00.006-04:00

"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart." ~ Victor Hugo

Soft focus, please, and only my right side

2009-03-18T10:38:00.005-04:00

"I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery." ~ Joan Rivers

Does this make my legs look fat?

2009-03-17T09:52:00.002-04:00

"Recently, an Associated Press story about the New York City subway system caught my eye. According to subway officials, a leading cause of subway delays is crash dieters who faint on the platform or on the train. That's right -- crash dieters who pass out and require medical help are a top cause of transit delays." ~ The South Beach Diet Supercharged by Dr. Arthur Agatston

Tipsy Santa

2009-03-16T10:45:00.004-04:00

"If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt." ~ Dean Martin

Grinning Peeping Tom

2009-03-13T12:59:00.009-04:00

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.” ~ John Perry Barlow

A pink tie affair

2009-03-12T12:49:00.002-04:00

"Say it loud and say it proud -- a real man can wear any color he wants! And if he wants to show support for those with breast cancer, the secure and discriminating man wears pink." ~ thebreastcancersite.com

No need for sleeping pills

2009-03-11T09:43:00.003-04:00

“Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.” ~ Joseph Wood Krutch

Resting

2009-03-10T10:15:00.004-04:00

"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.” ~ Spanish Proverb

Freedom

2009-03-09T10:24:00.000-04:00

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." ~ Viktor Frankl

Dying tulip

2009-03-06T13:03:00.001-05:00

"They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days." ~ Garrison Keillor

Hints of spring

2009-03-05T08:53:00.004-05:00

"An optimist is the human personification of spring."~ Susan J. Bissonette

Gift paper

2009-03-04T10:15:00.012-05:00

"I dwell in possibility..." ~ Emily Dickinson

Wicked

2009-03-03T08:29:00.001-05:00

"The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?" ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

I enjoy being a girl

2009-02-27T10:59:00.002-05:00

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” ~ Coco Chanel

Honey, you really should try my moisturizer

2009-02-26T11:11:00.001-05:00

“I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.” ~ Cher

There are disadvantages to having an outdoor office

2009-02-24T07:48:00.008-05:00

"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company." ~ Lily Tomlin

Not a cubicle!

2009-02-23T09:52:00.002-05:00

"I worked in my cubicle so I could pay for my house in Windsor, and I looked at that situation, sold the house, sold the car, quit the cubicle and kept the sailboat." ~ George Young

College subway station

2009-02-20T10:42:00.025-05:00

"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week." ~ Evan Esar

Crocs

2009-02-19T09:01:00.003-05:00

"I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty." ~ Imelda Marcos

Tires

2009-02-18T07:44:00.004-05:00

“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.” ~ Brian Tracy

Garlic

2009-02-17T12:03:00.005-05:00

“My final, considered judgement is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches -- with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.” ~ Angelo Pellegrini, The Unprejudiced Palate (1948)

The curse of being beautiful

2009-02-16T09:54:00.013-05:00

"Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring, really boring, so boring." ~ Michelle Pfeiffer

Feeling the love

2009-02-13T08:16:00.003-05:00

"If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough." ~ Ann Landers

Alone

2009-02-12T09:09:00.001-05:00

"We all need each other." ~ Leo Buscaglia

Park and watch

2009-02-11T08:59:00.002-05:00

"Canadians in general watched more TV (25 hours per week) in the winter months than in the summer months (20 hours)."

~ The Culture Statistics Program Television Project, by the CRTC, Canadian Heritage and Statistics Canada, 1998, and CBC Research (Nielson Media Research), February 1999.

Sunshine makes all the difference

2009-02-10T13:57:00.039-05:00

"Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows,

Everything that's wonderful is what I feel when we're together,

Brighter than a lucky penny,

When you're near the rain cloud disappears, dear,

And I feel so fine just to know that you are mine.

My life is sunshine, lollipops and rainbows,

That's how this refrain goes, so come on, join in everybody!

Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows,

Everything that's wonderful is sure to come your way

When you're in love to stay."

~ lyrics from Sunshine, Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows by Marvin Hamlisch

In other words, good bye

2009-02-09T09:11:00.003-05:00

"At first I was afraid, I was petrified
Kept thinkin I could never live without you by my side
But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong
And I grew strong, and I learned how to get along

And so you're back, from outer space
I just walked in to find you here, with that sad look upon your face
I should've changed that stupid lock, I should've made you leave your key
If I'd have known for just one second you'd be back to bother me.

Go on now go, walk out the door,
Just turn around now, cause you're not welcome anymore.
Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with good-bye,
You think I'd crumble, you think I'd lay down and die.

Oh, no not I, I will survive,
Oh as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive
I've got all my life to live, I've got all my love to give
And I, l will survive, I will survive....Hey, hey

~ lyrics from I will survive by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris

Whatever!!

2009-02-06T08:31:00.001-05:00

"You don't own me, I'm not just one of your many toys

You don't own me, don't say I can't go with other boys

And don't tell me what to do

And don't tell me what to say

And please, when I go out with you

Don't put me on display, 'cause

You don't own me, don't try to change me in any way

You don't own me, don't tie me down 'cause I'd never stay"

~ lyrics from You Don't Own Me by John Madara and David White

Baby, close the door

2009-02-05T10:59:00.020-05:00

"Close the door
Let me give you what you've been waiting for

Baby I got so much love to give
I wanna give it all to you."

~ lyrics from Close the door by Teddy Pendergrass

Pink is pretty

2009-02-04T10:56:00.004-05:00

"I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation."

~ lyrics from Barbie Girl by Aqua

Freedom

2009-02-03T11:50:00.005-05:00

"I need a new way
Out of here
The door is opening

I'm losing my fear
Suddenly
The way
Has come to me

Freedom take me deeper
Freedom take me deeper
Freedom take me deeper..."

~lyrics from Freedom Deep by Inxs

Go away

2009-02-02T08:26:00.001-05:00

"You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand." ~ Princess Anne

And have yourself a nice day!

2009-01-30T08:49:00.004-05:00

"I make it a policy to try never to make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way. After all, there's always all kinds of new ways to make a complete idiot of myself. Why repeat the old ones?” ~ Margot Dalton

Subway accordion

2009-01-29T09:37:00.005-05:00

"Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live." ~ James Brown

Thumbs up

2009-01-28T13:33:00.001-05:00

"When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously." ~ Shakti Gawain

Red tie

2009-01-27T10:59:00.002-05:00

"Life is not a dress rehearsal." ~ Rose Tremain

Want summer now

2009-01-26T10:47:00.001-05:00

"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unneces-sary freezing of water.” ~ Carl Reiner

Smiles are best shared

2009-01-23T10:03:00.001-05:00

"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color, is like living in Alaska and being against snow.” ~ William Faulkner

The look

2009-01-22T09:41:00.004-05:00

"I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitive-ly, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other’s arses and nuzzle each other’s fur." ~ Graham Swift

Deja vu?

2009-01-21T13:51:00.001-05:00

"I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him." ~ William H. Macy

On the wall

2009-01-20T08:21:00.002-05:00

"There is no doubt that the first require-ment for a composer is to be dead." ~ Arthur Honegger

James Dean

2009-01-19T11:07:00.003-05:00

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.” ~ James Dean

Twisted

2009-01-16T08:21:00.002-05:00

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realized that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me." ~ Emo Philips

First icicle of the season

2009-01-15T14:34:00.008-05:00

"Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts, that is the end of it." ~ Anonymous

Not impressed

2009-01-14T09:48:00.003-05:00

"You've got to take the bitter with the sour." ~ Samuel Goldwyn

Rest assured

2009-01-13T09:44:00.002-05:00

"According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two! Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy." ~ Jerry Seinfeld

Blue eyes

2009-01-12T10:15:00.000-05:00

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.” ~ Farrah Fawcett

All dressed up and ready to go

2009-01-11T13:43:00.006-05:00

"There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good." ~ Edwin Denby

Evening stroll

2009-01-09T15:41:00.000-05:00

"Night is a world lit by itself." ~ Antonio Porchia

Hold on

2009-01-05T15:33:00.000-05:00

"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward." ~ James Thurber

Planting for tomorrow

2009-01-01T13:22:00.000-05:00

"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." ~ Leo Buscaglia

New Year's Eve at the movies

2008-12-31T17:02:00.000-05:00

"Sid Loomis: You're a star because you're great and you are a great star, but let me tell you something, Helen. In the last couple of years you're better known as an adulteress and a drunk. And I say this in all due respect.

Helen Sinclair: Look, I haven't had a drink since New Year's Eve.

Sid Loomis: You're talking Chinese New Year's.

Helen Sinclair: Naturally. Still, that's two days, Sid! You know how long that is for me?" ~ Bullets Over Broadway

Eighth night of Hanukkah

2008-12-29T16:13:00.005-05:00

"May the lights of Hanukkah usher in a better world for all human-kind." ~ Author Unknown

Menorah lamp post

2008-12-28T09:45:00.003-05:00

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life." ~ Buddha

Hanukkah and Shabbat

2008-12-27T09:25:00.009-05:00

"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. ~ Jules Renard

Happy latke season!!

2008-12-26T16:51:00.002-05:00

"May love and light fill your home and heart at Hanukkah." ~ Author Unknown

Santa's sleigh

2008-12-25T21:05:00.002-05:00

Two hours later.

Dress rehearsal

2008-12-24T15:55:00.008-05:00

Where's Santa???

Hoping to be chosen for the big day

2008-12-23T09:51:00.001-05:00

Pick me! Pick me!!
But wait, there's more.

First night

2008-12-22T08:35:00.001-05:00

"To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle." ~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Watch out for reindeer

2008-12-21T15:45:00.002-05:00

“I think there should be something in science called the "rein-deer effect." I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good to hear someone say, "Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect.” Jack Handy

Hempress fashion show

2008-12-02T13:17:00.021-05:00

"The body is a sacred garment." ~ Martha Graham

If you lose your mind, where does it go?

2008-11-30T17:31:00.004-05:00

The Princess Cinza: Hold on! I think I see something.

The Divine Ms. P: Seems The Woman missed a spot when she was washing the floor.

A work in progress

2008-11-21T11:58:00.001-05:00

"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it." ~ Danny Kaye

Where's my tiara?

2008-11-14T21:57:00.001-05:00

"The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children." ~ King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)

Flipping veggie burgers

2008-11-13T11:28:00.004-05:00

"Any cook should be able to run the country." ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Hula hoop

2008-11-12T10:15:00.001-05:00

"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive." ~ Joseph Campbell

Face paint

2008-11-11T08:10:00.003-05:00

"There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it." ~ Chinese Proverb

She's so shy

2008-11-10T08:56:00.002-05:00

“They remember me as this shy girl sitting under the table. But they obviously didn't know what was going on in my head." ~ Izabella Scorupco

Searching for signs of intelligent life

2008-11-07T08:09:00.001-05:00

"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this." ~ Bertrand Russell

Are cats atheists?

2008-11-06T07:54:00.002-05:00

“When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?” ~ Quentin Crisp

People watching

2008-11-05T08:00:00.002-05:00

"I think that God in creating Man somewhat over-estimated his ability." ~ Oscar Wilde

Do you have an appointment?

2008-11-04T10:55:00.001-05:00

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” ~ Winston Churchill

African drum

2008-11-03T19:20:00.001-05:00

"You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice." ~ Billy Higgins

Beau

2008-10-31T14:23:00.004-04:00

"They are better than human beings because they know but do not tell." ~ Emily Dickinson

Beau -- a proud lap dog

2008-10-30T02:53:00.002-04:00

"A man is only as good as what he loves." ~ Saul Bellow

He's got it!!

2008-10-29T09:23:00.003-04:00

"He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch." ~ Unknown