Posted by thegals on 24 Nov 2008 at 12:46 pm under The New Deal, music
I have always been a fan of the music of Leiber & Stoller. My husband & I have seen “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” multiple times. 4 for him, 3 for me. As a matter of fact, we just saw a local performance of “Smokey Joe’s” THIS Saturday at the StageDoor Theatre in Coral Springs.
Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller wrote songs for the likes of Elvis, Bobby Darin, The Coasters and so many more. Their music is a constant presence in our culture with hits including: Kansas City, On Broadway, Jailhouse Rock, Spanish Harlem, Love Potion #9, YaketyYak and Stand by Me.
“Stand by Me”, as performed on this video, has even more significance today than ever before..
Posted by thegals on 18 Nov 2008 at 1:31 pm under Peeves
My husband has a “favorite car”. It is the Volkswagen Eos hard top convertible. He LOVES it. I don’t. (usually)
My complaints are:
1. the seat is made for a 6′ tall person. The headrest hits me in the back of the head in such a way that I have to look down into my lap when I sit there. If I sit up so I can actually look straight ahead, I have absolutely no back support. Usually I take a pillow for some kind of lumbar support, but that becomes a pain.
2. With the top down (as he always wants) I either end up with sand in my eyes, a mess of hair or hat head. Not to mention the flying papers or packages from the store.
3. In Florida, the seats are HOT!! Heaven forbid he get fabric seats!
Yesterday morning, my husband came to me with a dilemma. He had an early morning appointment, but had a flat tire! I offered to switch cars, and I would wait for the AAA guy.
The AAA guy fixed the tire, and I was on my way to work by 8:30AM. I was PREPARED this time! I had my pillow, my hat and sunglasses. As I opened the top (what’s the point of a convertible if you don’t put the top down), I gloated at how ‘futuristic’ the process was. Wathcing the Eos top go down is like watching the “Transformers” cartoons. I drew a crowd in my neighborhood. The Middle-School kids on their way to school stopped and gawked. It was fun!
Buzzing down the boulevard with my red hair flying, I felt about 25! The 60 degree morning blowing over the top of my head was exhilarating.
The difference is, my office is just about 5 miles from home, I dont have to get on the highway, like my husband does. Highway driving in a convertible is not a good feeling to me. Now that I think of it, maybe my next car will be a convertible! With FABRIC SEATS!
Posted by thegals on 06 Nov 2008 at 5:23 pm under Beauty & Fashion
OK, I am not one to criticize another’s clothes. Heaven forbid! I am sure I could receive a few fashion citations myself!
But.. regarding Michelle Obama’s Election Day dress.. “What was she thinking?” She is usually very tastefully attired.
At the Election Night Watch Party I attended, everyone kept remarking how awful the dress was. I kept trying to find the redeeming qualities of the dress “the color looks good on her”, “it makes he look tall and thin”, “maybe it is better without the sweater”. But, no matter how I tried to rationalize, I thought the dress looked wrong.
I look forward to her style unfold as she becomes comfortable with her First Lady role. As a matter of fact, I look forward to just about everything with this new administration!
You hear the term ‘white suprmacist’ and it conjurs up an image of something that is supreme, or superior…sorta like what the term ‘aryan’ was supposed to conjur to Hitler youth.
Instead what ‘white supremacist’ indicates is some creatures/cretins that look like this:
Why are hate mongers so f–ing ugly? Is it a physical manifestation of their souls?
Posted by thegals on 07 Oct 2008 at 4:34 pm under Finances
If you bought $1000 of stock a year ago, you would now have:
$91.28 if you bought Washington Mutual
$37.50 if you bought Neomagic
$21.29 if you bought Freddie Mac
$20.79 if you bought Fannie Mae
But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the recycling REFUND… You would have $… 214.00 in cash.
So the best investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
According to John McCain, being a PTA member is qualification for VP choice. Dang! If only I knew this. Not only was I a PTA member, but I was also it’s President. Oh wait a minute, I think that was the Hair Club for Men…nevermind!
Hey! I was President of the Newcomers Club in my town too!
I read the NY Times, the Washington Post AND Oprah Magazine!
I can name a few Supreme Court cases besides Roe v Wade: Dred Scott, Miranda v Arizona, Plessey v Ferguson, Bush v Gore and Nixon v US.
I am married to a lawyer (hey.. that should count!)
Posted by thegals on 24 Sep 2008 at 2:45 pm under Peeves, Politics
Under the guise of disaster, the administration is once again trying to RUSH a VAGUE bill that will give them UNFETTERED control over $700,000,000,000???
Bernanke is giving “GRAVE THREAT WARNINGS”, Paulson is urging an IMMEDIATE decision in which: “Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.”
This is terribly reminiscent of how quickly and BLINDLY The Patriot Act was passed.
Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller wrote songs for the likes of Elvis, Bobby Darin, The Coasters and so many more. Their music is a constant presence in our culture with hits including: Kansas City, On Broadway, Jailhouse Rock, Spanish Harlem, Love Potion #9, YaketyYak and Stand by Me.
My husband has a “favorite car”. It is the Volkswagen Eos hard top convertible. He LOVES it. I don’t. (usually)
But.. regarding Michelle Obama’s Election Day dress.. “What was she thinking?” She is usually very tastefully attired.
If you bought $1000 of stock a year ago, you would now have: