So this is what I'll be doing on April 17: http://bowlathon.nnaf.org/nnafbowl/participantpage.asp?uid=1563&fundid=432 Bowling! For a cause! Please donate if you can — it's a very worthy (and yes, I admit, controversial) cause. I have to support all chances to let women make their own choices.
Read MoreI get surprisingly cranky when I lose a board game. I remember playing them for hours with my younger brother, which made me almost manic about following the exact rules and about only having a good time if I could actually have a chance to win the thing. I'd like to say that as a…
Read MoreNot much going on here at the moment, I admit — here's to getting things started up again in the spring. And if that's not good enough for you, here's a cute picture of my Throw Rug, aka the dog known as Ciara.
Read MoreLibrary blog book challenge commences! (2010 version)
Home for books! Ach, I have been so lax about posting here. Really, I've just been absorbed by Facebook, where I will also post this information. But on the off chance I can help the local library by reviving the blog briefly, I'm all for it. So here we go, one day late but: This…
Read More2009: Fiji – New Zealand – Australia
In 2009, I hit a birthday milestone and was lucky enough to have a full-time freelance career that allowed me to take three weeks off for a journey I’d been wanting to take since I was about 12: Australia! Now, the package deal I secured also included a brief stop in Fiji (pro: made the…
Read MoreA buncha love
A bunch of roses…. There's classy, and there's not classy. Classy: Sending flowers, even if you can't attend. Not classy: Canceling 24 hours before the event without an excuse, if you're a key attendee. …by any other name We had one of the latter. As for the former, "Olivia Benson," you are one classy broad.…
Read MoreParty time!
Susan and Randee After many headaches and some tears, "The Law & Order: SVU Unofficial Companion" got its own party last night, at Rouge Tomate in NYC. We had about 60 people there — including some of the show's recurring or guest actors — and it was quite delicious (who knew dill and cucumber could…
Read MoreA Tree Grows in Jackson Heights
Perhaps no one else but myself cares about this, but Bette, the tree planted in December, 2007 outside my window as an early holiday present (okay, it was actually part of the million tree plan initiated in NYC by Mayor Bloomberg and Bette Midler's New York Restoration Project) deserves an update. Here, the before, middle…
Read MoreThe Signatories of the Free Polanski Petition – Demand Explanations
Erika Abrams, Fatih Akin, Yves Alberty, Stephane Allagnon, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Gianni Amelio, Wess Anderson, Michel Andrieu, Roger Andrieux, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Tomas Arana, Frédéric Aranzueque-Arrieta, Alexandre Arcady, Fanny Ardant, Asia Argento, Marie-Hélène Arnau, Darren Aronofsky, Olivier Assayas, Alexander Astruc, Gabriel Auer, Zdzicho Augustyniak, Alexandre Babel, Vladimir Bagrianski, Lubomila Bakardi, Fausto Nicolás Balbi, Eleonor Baldwin,…
Read MoreThe relentless publicity march … begins
So, a big shout out to Frank DeCaro and Jim Colucci, who brought me into their big gay show (The Frank DeCaro Show) on OutQ – Sirius 109 | XM 98 Satellite Radio yesterday!And yes, I can call it big and gay because that’s just part of the channel it’s on — and because they’re…
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