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Time to pull the plug?
TV Land I don't care if it is a hunk of wiring and cathode ray, I spend enough time staring at it that when it dies, it's hard not to feel a little nostalgic. My Sylvania God Knows What Model TV set is terminal. She's my second TV set, a used one I'd been given…
Read MoreNeon lights are bright on Broadway
There are many consequences of Getting Older, and I have refused to whine about most of them. It is boring to talk about gray hairs. (Being blonde and a dyer this isn't an issue yet.) About not moving as fast as you once did. About having to buy creams to cover things that never needed…
Read MoreCupcakes, the second batch
And now, the final batch of cupcakes, for Mike's Dia de los Muertos party tonight. (The first ones are here.) Some of these were a ton of fun to make — but by the end of about 40 I was pretty over the whole thing! Skull-tastic Never put the whole pumpkin in your mouth at…
Read MoreAre you out of your skull? Actually….
A heady feeling Well, the skull that scared Ciara is done. Or about 95 percent so. Here she is hanging up and drying, but I had to reinforce the head and am reinforcing the bottom where all the candy will sit when it's hanging up, full. Mike bought half-price candy today and now it's all…
Read MoreLawyer, please! (And an indexer, too)
A quick shout-out to the community there: Anyone know of a book-rights lawyer who can do a simple read and interpret of a nonfiction book contract? I've got one and I'd like to make sure we're not getting screwed. I've also been told by our agent that you don't even bother putting something like publicity…
Read MoreHalloween cupcakes: The first batch
These were harder to do than they looked! But tasty, too. My fingers are all multicolored and smudged from where the icing melted a bit there. Anyway, as promised back here, with the Mandala O' Candy (sounds like a porn name) I have now designed several cupcakes for tomorrow's gathering. (The big gathering remains on…
Read MoreGetting ahead with Ciara
I've been working on a Dia de los Muertos skull pinata for Saturday's party. It's a paper mache thing, and it's still got the balloon inside keeping it filled, so I dangle it upside down while it's drying from the latest coat of gluewater. Ciara has finally taken notice. Ciara Meets The Skull You can't…
Read MoreEarly versions of Halloween makeup
Amateur! That's some bruise there, missy Probably the fingernail should face the other direction.
Read MoreO keyboardist, where art thou?
O keyboardist, where art thou? There may be a few things worse than having to sit at home and wait for Nick Rhodes to call you, but after a whole day of hanging around for this, I'm kind of over it. Plus, I have laundry downstairs that needs collecting. Life is truly a collection of…
Read MoreEarly warning shot
Nothing is signed. And for the past five years we've gone back and forth on the whether this will happen or not, having gotten shot down innumerable times. But I think it's about to happen. Finally. Dick Wolf is our new BFF. I almost can has contract. More soon.
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