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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
9:41 am	Writer's Block: Lights Out All it takes is a blackout to realize how much we rely on electricity. What's your most memorable story from a power outage? View other answers When I was very little there was a huge blackout in the US Northeast and Canada. I was in Toronto, and my parents had just put me in the bath and left me alone there to play with bath toys when the lights went out. I was afraid of the dark anyways, so being in the bath but suddenly plunged into total darkness was terrifying, and I have a distinct memory of being lifted all slippery wet out of the water and bundled into towels. I remember calling out from the bath to be rescued, and i remember us spending the rest of the night by candlelight. This blackout was often known as the 'Great New York Blackout' and in popular culture it was always said that it stretched into Canada, but per this article... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Blackout_of_1965 ..apparently it started on the Canadian side. And there you have it. I was there. Also had a big blackout in the middle of winter in the Quebec country house and we lived comfortably by lamplight keeping the house warm with wood stove, boiling water on kettle on the stove and even cooking on it. That was pretty lovely. Current Mood: enlightened (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
11:31 pm	Writer's Block: Duos Sam and Diane, Ross and Rachel, Chuck and Blair—who is your favorite TV couple? View other answers Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
12:13 am	adding to the surrealism of this dog and pony show... When I see pictures of Debbie Rowe I can't help but look at her jaw and think of... Sorry. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
12:50 am	Writer's Block: Streaming What is your favorite site for listening to music online? View other answers iTunes radio (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
10:31 am	Writer's Block: Local Favorite What's your favorite thing to show out-of-town guests when they come to visit? Submitted By mercyb View other answers I love bringing guests over to Universal City Walk - I love the people watching there. I love going to a movie, eating in a restaurant, being mildly entertained by the crazy guerilla entertainments they organize... I like the vendors and shops and of course the best part is getting our car detailed while we play. I also enjoy bringing guests to the Hollywood and Highland complex, but the people watching there isn't as much fun. Then of course there's the all day-to-drive-around LA drive -- from Griffith Park and the Hollywood sign, up the sunset strip, through BH (that's Beverly Hills), down to the beaches, past the giant donut drive-in near LAX, then quickly through the hood to Downtown LA, Chinatown, Silverlake, and then back to Hollywood. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 14th, 2009
11:40 am	Writer's Block: You're a Winner! Have you ever won a contest, drawing, or lottery? What was the prize? View other answers When I was first dating BF he was avidly collecting SW stuff and this Darth Vader Head store display for Bazooka Gum (Canada) was being rafffled off by the gas station convenience store in the middle of Ganges on Salt Spring Island. I entered my phone number but didn't expect to win... and it was a true surprise when I got the call and was told I won! It was a great gift... and it lives in our livingroom to this very day. (Comment on this)
Friday, June 12th, 2009
4:17 am	Writer's Block: Teen Time Machine If you could be a teenager living in any decade, which one would you choose? Submitted By twertle View other answers Now. It's a kid's world now and there was nothing to do when I was a kid... but of course I'm glad I'm an adult, too. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
12:12 am	Writer's Block: Call Me Do you still use a landline at home, or do you rely completely on your cell phone? View other answers land line yes... cell is for convenience, coordinating and messages only... I have a pay-as-you-go and only spend about a hundred bucks a year on it... that plus the land line is cheaper than a cell contract.. don't get me wrong I'd LOVE an iPhone - but I'll get one when work pays for it Current Mood: busy Current Music: hangin on the telephone (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 1st, 2009
12:52 pm	Manhattanhenge (from Defamer) http://gawker.com/5274035/manhattanhenge [The view from 42nd and 3rd yesterday evening, when the setting sun aligned with streets in Manhattan to create the yearly event known as "Manhattan Solstice" or "Manhattanhenge". Image via jonbell has no h's Flickr.] I like this because it's my old view.. I used to work at 43rd and 3rd, so this was very much my area of midtown Manhattan. Just about where the light pole is, on the left side there, is where the last AutoMat was. And when I was little I love, loved, loved the whole AutoMat concept. My mother hated it, she knew the food was all nasty there, but I was a kid,I loved the whole concept of sliding open littles door to take out a dish of jello, a sandwich or an apple. I remember for a while the last automat was considered a landmark to be preserved... they renovated it and made it all art deco a la 1970s art deco revival style... but then I think they gave up. For a while I think the former Automat was a Swiss Chalet BBQ chicken joint, but now I think it's just an office building... but i dunno, I'm not there. Maybe someone can tell me? If you look the other way from this, you would be facing the river, towards the UN Building (which you can't really see from there but it's there...) and Tudor City (I love, love, love Tudor City!) (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
5:55 pm	So so wrong No matter what one's personal view is, two wrongs do not make it right. I just saw another headline (yes, this is my day for posting headlines....) US abortion doctor is shot dead http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/8076253.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8076253.stm Controversial US abortion doctor George Tiller has been shot and killed at a church in his home state of Kansas. Current Mood: pessimistic (Comment on this)
Friday, May 29th, 2009
11:11 pm	Writer's Block: Venting What's the most annoying thing that happened to you this week? View other answers I got a letter from the IRS that I am being audited. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 25th, 2009
9:32 am	Writer's Block: In Memoriam It's Memorial Day in the States, a time to remember those who have died while in military service. Who would you like to remember today? View other answers I don't remember anybody. I'm sorry, I just don't. It's because I suffer from a terrible condition known as c.r.s...... CAN'T REMEMBER SHIT. SORRY. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
5:41 pm	Writer's Block: Space Wars Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Serenity, Alien, 2001—there is a long list of movies and TV shows that take place in space. Which is your favorite? View other answers Space 1999. And Star Trek. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 18th, 2009
10:08 pm	Writer's Block: Same Name Have you ever met or known someone who has the same name as you (first and last) but is not a relative? View other answers Not exactly... but I found records of a woman with my exact name (first and last) who got married in Brooklyn New York at aged 16 on January 16th, 1931. I've spent some time trying to track down these almost relatives.. and research suggested they might have come as immigrants from the same part of the old country as my Dad's people... but I never got anywhere tracing them. Current Mood: blank (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 16th, 2009
10:16 am	DOH. I swear a long time ago I posted a pic of my mother YOUNG, and wrote an essay about it. I couldn't find the pic in my galleries and I was feeling really confounded so over the past couple days I've just reread my ENTIRE journal here, going back to 2002. Try it some time.... go read your whole old journal from the whole time you've been posting here. Fascinating. PS - the pic is not posted the entry doesn't exist, what the heck am I remembering it from? It is a days of future past memory? Weird. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 15th, 2009
1:51 pm	Writer's Block: BFF Who was your first friend on LiveJournal? Are they still on your Friends list? View other answers I found penpusher right away, and cheapdialogue was the first person who found and added me randomly and yes, both are still friends. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 11th, 2009
4:20 pm	Writer's Block: When I Grow Up Do you ever do anything now that you swore you would never do when you were younger? What is it? View other answers Um... its more the other way... I did a lot of things when I was younger that I would NEVER do now! Current Mood: embarrassed (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 8th, 2009
12:17 am	Writer's Block: Folktales of the City What is your favorite urban legend? Have you or anyone you know ever been fooled by one? Submitted By mercyb View other answers When I was little we drove across country and I got a bunch of postcards of Jackalopes in the midwest. I thought they were the coolest animals I'd ever seen, and it seemed completely logical to me that they were real. The postcards talked about them as if they were real, and I didn't know it was a legend. No one told me otherwise. So, back home and at school, we had to do 'oral reports' and I took the jackalope post cards and mounted them on a bristol board and used them as my report. The teacher was so amused, she realized I didn't intentionally lie, she was really charmed that I didn't understand that these were a joke. Current Mood: embarrassed (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
4:39 pm	Writer's Block: Historian's Choice If you could live in any era of history, which one would you choose? View other answers I have lived in other eras. I have past life memories of a lifetime in the Italian Renaissance -- in Venice. And I know of another life -- where I was British but spent time in the low countries -- during the Restoration. In fact, there's a picture of who I was in that lifetime in the UK's National Portrait Gallery, and it's SO WEIRD. I mean, I look at it, and it kind of creeps me out... but I know it is me. When would I like to have lived? Now. In the future - in the exotic buck rodgers future where we can all fly around in cars like Corbin Dallas drives... or maybe I would like to have lived in Atlantis. I don't know - I mean, what were those lives like? I don't know about 'going backwards' - I love TV. I love computers... would it be neat to visit the past, yes. I dreamed I landed at LAX and it was the 1950s once. I was walking around and looking at people and cars and lunch counters and paperboys... and it was amazing... it was all 3D and real all around me... but it was the 50s. The best part was it was a dream and I wasn't stuck there. (6 Comments |Comment on this)