such adorableness! comes out in oct 2008, perhaps i shall buy … terribly creative … i like the multiplayer aspect, working together to get through the world and adventuring as a group. but in the end … it’s still a “left to right” experience, eh?
m – you know i teased you for putting jesse mccartney’s “leavin” on my mix cd, but now i have to say it’s one of my favorite songs to put on in the morning. something about it…i just don’t know…it’s just so peppy. and who can’t help smiling after singing “Girl we flying on that G-5, G-5″
but you will never believe what our baby justin timberlake has gone and done. he’s actually covered t-pain’s “buy you a drank”. gurl you have to see it to believe it.
Fun Fact About Jesse McCartney:
He’s also a songwriter. Wikipedia mentions that In the fall of 2007, McCartney co-wrote the hit song “Bleeding Love” with Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic, produced by Tedder for British singer Leona Lewis’s debut album, Spirit. Well who would’ve thunk it???
i peeped this on shiloh walker’s blog and thought of you, m
The Waiting Game
Posted on August 14, 2008 by shilohwalker
Writing is a waiting game.
Especially if you write with the hope of being published, or you write for a living.
First you wait for the idea…although it’s not a sit on your tail sort of wait…you’re looking for the idea, kind of like playing hide and seek.
Then you get the idea and you do the writing, but you’re always ‘waiting’ for the critical moments. Even as you’re writing one critical moment, you’re waiting for the part of the story where the next critical moment comes in.
Then you finish…and you wait for feedback from friends, first readers, crit groups, etc. You print it off and start doing the query bit.
You wait to hear from agents.
You wait to hear from editors.
Even once you’re pubbed, the waiting isn’t over. You still have to wait for feedback from the editor. You wait for cover art, you wait for edits, you wait for galleys, you wait from release day, you wait for feedback from readers, reviewers, etc.
But since you’re a writer, you aren’t just waiting…you’re already writing the next book, and the cycle starts all over again.
Always waiting.
I’m not the patient type. So why on earth am I in a business where I spend so much time just waiting?
la currently has 2 major food obsessions – one is frozen yogurt (as in pinkberry, blue mango, red mango, studio yogurt, yogurt zone. blah blah blah). the other, and my most favorite, is cupcakes (sprinkles, vanilla, susiecakes, dainties, yummy. yada yada yada) and girl, let me just tell you that there is nothing like standing in a 30 person line in the mid-day sun just to get yourself a tasty little cake o’fun.
but m, both you and i know that the major contender in these cupcake wars, the microsoft of cupcake cafes (aka “sprinkles“) doesn’t have the best cupcakes in town. usually the cake itself is a bit dry. really what takes the cake (harharhar) is their yummy yummy good frosting. the cream cheese frosting on their red velvet cupcakes is like crack in creamy form. so for your baking enjoyment, here is the recipe straight off their take home red velvet mix:
Sprinkles Cream Cheese Frosting 8 oz of cream cheese, very soft
4 oz of butter, very soft
1/8 tsp salt
4 cups of powdered sugar, sifted
1 tsp of vanilla extract
Beat the cream cheese and butter with the salt until light and fluffy. Gradually add the powdered sugar, and the vanilla – beat until smooth and creamy. Dollop onto the cupcakes with a small offset spatula and spread by pushing from the center out to the edges.
as a shopaholic i feel it is my duty to look out for great designers to share with y’all. one of my newest favs is a brand called mike & chris. the most amazing thing about this husband and wife design team is that they take everyday casual clothing items such as hoodies and jackets and turn them into these avant-garde masterpieces. they give casual clothing a unique look by adding pleats, ties and tucks in places you wouldn’t normally expect. they started out with just hoodies and after much success have now branched out into a full line. soo worth checking out!
m, you know you and i are always talking about our hair…it’s the curse of ethnicity. you’re always battling some type of kink or curl or weave or whatever, but you know we always take pride in unique locks. you with your luscious, warm highlighted blasian curls and me with my multi-color george clintonesque braids. i don’t mind when people come up to me to touch my hair or compliment their length, size, color etc. but there is one thing that irks the hell out of me. for all of you non-ethnics, or even those who have just never had to deal with “problematic” hair, do NOT ask me the following…
“do you still wash your hair??”
aaargh. a-hole! of course i still wash my hair. just like any other human being does. lather rinse repeat, followed by a very expensive leave in conditioning treatment. even though my hair may be in braids i still take every effort to follow good hygiene practices. braids or dreadlocks do not equate wild jungle woman swimming in mud puddles – for goodness sakes!
if you ever ask me that question again i will strangle you with one of my shampooed and conditioned braids.
keep an eye out – imdb blocks photo stealing so i have to wait until something new updates on yahoo, but the news is the director of V for Vendetta is directing “Ninja Assassins” (dumbass name I know) which features a cute lil black chick with a weave who was in the last Pirates of the Caribbean and a cute tallish korean dude with a bad mop of real hair and a teen idol fanbase.
thus we long and hope for the tingly interlocking of BLASIAN LIPS for Naomi Harris and Rain! (yes, he’s got no surname in the korea-pop-idol world). And no, Rain isn’t Japanese so how could he be a Samurai but look, at least Hollywood is trying to leave racism behind so let’s just take what we can get and hope for change! go obama!
The hottest cast you've seen at the box office in a looong time!
i was never much one for film snobbery. although it was included as a part of my undergraduate degree in communications, and although i tend to see every film known to man, i’m not one to jump on a director’s bandwagon just because he’s the cool shit of the moment. well…those days are now over – count me a convert to the faith of woody allen. after seeing ‘vicky cristina barcelona’ i’ll even conveniently forget that you married your own daughter.
to co-opt m’s use of descriptive language, you will undboubtedly *splash* when seeing this gorgeous cast on film. to have Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz,Rebecca Halland Scarlett Johansson is almost too much gorgeousness to bear. seriously! and all four tear up the screen in their respective roles. javier bardem plays a sultry, almost amoral tortured artist. penelope cruz is his demented muse. rebecca hall is an amped up version of charlotte from sex and the city and a museum curator. and scarlett johansson plays the role she’s known for, the sexpot vixen…but even she is able to mix up the character with a bit more naivete. needless to say i was quite impressed with the film as a whole. if you’re looking for longing glances between characters, sexual tension, or threesomes, you can’t go wrong with this film. and nothing can beat the scenery of beautiful barcelona.
one of my girlfriends has this term: *splash* … with the asterisks and everything. best used in chat. occasionally used in email. eventually started getting use in face to face conversations.
it means a girl physically reacting to something with the female internal standard for happiness: explosive vaginal lubrication. this is beyond nipple hardening and into “oh my god i just splashed my panties i’m so hot and bothered and excited.”
it can be used in jest – *splash* i’m going on a trip to cancun!
and it can be used for real. so let us reference the picture above. again. really close. so close my mouth is watering and i’m wondering if that’s fresh clean model skin and groin i’m smelling cuz fuck i can almost taste it.
*splash*
oh my god i really need a lollipop … and something to teeth on … argggh
Most everyone these days has been influenced by a bit of Japanese culture whether it be anime, manga, Harajuku Girl or Pocky Sticks, we’ve gone buck-wild over anything J-related. M and I jumped on the bandwagon a little while ago when we made the trek to the Royal T Cafe in Culver City. Now, I know what you’re thinking, Culver City is not your idea of an eastern culture hotbed (shock!) but I’d have to say we were pleasantly suprised by this cute take on Cosplay (Costume Play) cafes. The purpose of these cafes is to provide a comfortable environment for hardworking joes to relax and be treated like royalty. Although we weren’t hand fed grapes or fanned by our french-maid attired waitresses, while there we did enjoy a tasty tea service, wandered around the cutsey gallery and peeked into the customary giftshop. The highlight had to be the giant Porta Party! exhibit. A life sized porta potty shaped like an iPod, set up with a mini disco ball and a real iPod set to play David Bowies “Let’s Dance”
