My eight year old daughter asked me to buy her the new Skechers that a girl in her class has started to wear. Apparently, they are the talk of Third Grade. These coveted clodhoppers are named “Daddy’s Money - Gimme.”
I am not sure where to begin with my list of things I find wrong with this….
"This is my dilemma. I am dust and ashes, frail and wayward, a set of predetermined behavioral responses, … riddled with fear, beset with needs…the quintessence of dust and unto dust I shall return…. But there is something else in me…. Dust I may be, but troubled dust, dust that dreams, dust that has strong premonitions of transfiguration, of a glory in store, a destiny prepared, an inheritance that will one day be my own…so my life is spread out in a painful dialectic between ashes and glory, between weakness and transfiguration. I am a riddle to myself, an exasperating enigma…the strange duality of dust and glory."
— Richard Holloway, Scottish writer.
History of Rap by Fallon and Timberlake. This is f..ing brilliant.
Why We Should Memorize Poetry : The New Yorker.
Lovely piece. I’d say memorize the two Ps. Poetry and Phone numbers. Dead batteries and stolen handbags can leave you in quite a pickle if you don’t know a number or two. (apart from your own!)
What do bad girls get….
Well I’ve been a bad girl indeed, totally neglecting my musical advent. So this seems like a good choice and is one of my christmas favs. My choice for days 7-12.
From the very talented Joan Osborne
Advent Day 6: The Pogues and you can guess the rest.
That I managed to wait until the 6th to post this shows great restraint.
Enjoy; I always do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q
Advent day 4: ‘What Christmas Means to Me’ Stevie Wonder
Nice live recording recording
Advent Day 3: Dolly and Rod’s Baby It’s Cold Outside
I love that these two collaborated on this lovely duet. Seriously, who do you think uses more hairspray?
Ringing out December 3rd here in the Tropics with my AC cranked up. Baby it’s cold outside.. my duvet.
