My2SecondShelfLifeMy2SecondShelfLifeThings that interest me and perhaps they might interest you as well. I sometimes use salty language, so if you're easily offended, I'm not for you. I've got opinions, some humour, some sadness, and even some recipes. If you like it, great..if you don Articles
I'm a Silly Head
It's Jacqueline, one of Radmila'...
2007-06-18 14:22:00 I'm a Silly Head It's Jacqueline, one of Radmila's stand-ins while she was bull fighting in Spain.While she was away I did a post about sending a free book to anyone who wanted one - all you needed to do was send me an email at glacia at gmail dot com.And two ladies took me up on my offer and I was very excited. So excited that I lost their emails.....Now, it's with great embarrassment that I ask these two lovelies to send me an email again so I can ship out your books.I hope you'll forgive me, dears. More About: Line , Mila
Sunday Click Around
The the picture to your left ...
2007-06-17 17:42:00 Sunday Click AroundThe the picture to your left is of a Gypsy entertainer in a downtown plaza in Madrid.He was very accommodating, posing for me in dramatic ways.While there are gypsies here in Toronto, they seem quite different from those who reside in Europe. When I was a little girl, I remember seeing the colourful caravans...I think those are more or less a thing of the past.Anyhow, it got me thinking about Gypsies and their history and traditions.Here is a bit of History and Way of Life of Gypsies, as well as Gypsies in the Halocaust.Gypsies of the UK, and photos of the gypsy way of life.The Onion has a series of statshots that are pretty amusing. It's fun to satirize those quick little powerpoint pages that allow you not to have to spend precious time reading up on the full facts yourself.Here's Coco Chanel's collection from 1959.Don't get me wrong, I love the Chanel suit...but this show, since it's in black and white, makes all the suits look identical. Here's an interv... More About: Picture , Sunday , Left , Round
Just a Coupla Things...
To step away from what I'...
2007-06-15 18:28:00 Just a Coupla Thing s ...To step away from what I'm compelled to blog about for a minute in order to focus on the strange developments of the past few days in the news."PETERBOROUGH, Ontario - A judge has ruled that a 24-year-old Canadian man is not allowed to have a girlfriend for the next three years.The ruling came after Steven Cranley pleaded guilty on Tuesday to several charges stemming from an assault on a former girlfriend.Cranley, who has been diagnosed with a dependent personality disorder, attacked his girlfriend in an argument after their breakup."Ok kids, this is a groundbreaking ruling.Who knows?Down the line this case may be used to justify controlling all kinds of social and moral problems that some people are not mature or responsible enough to take on, and society at large eventually has to step in and handle.Like childrearing for example.Maybe someday, this case can be used to stop people convicted of child abuse from even being allowed to have children....a little ... More About: Commentary , Step , Away
The Dance of Death.
Our friends warned me about...
2007-06-15 04:00:00 The Dance of Death .Our friends warned me about the bullfight."It's pretty bloody""I don't know if you'll be able to sit through the whole thing"Even The Mister was concerned, since I am the one to hide my eyes during bloody movies....but I loved the bullfight.Yes.I know that there's an outcry for the bullfights to cease.And for some reason, I thought that they went on for ages torturing the poor bull......but they don't.An entire bullfight appears to last about 20 minutes, and unlike cows and bulls on this side of the pond who are led to the slaughter...the bulls in Spain get an opportunity to fight back....and sometimes they get their own.I understand that we got to see a bullfight in one of the most famous rings in the world. The ring in Seville...and it's old. Old and beautiful, and reminiscent of the Roman ring.Let me try to describe.People show up to the bullfight decked OUT. Ladies in their best, with their pretty fans, men carrying their little pillows to sit on the old... More About: Travel , Friends , Observations
I love the aged.
Pictures of wonderful faces fr...
2007-06-14 04:44:00 I love the aged.Pictures of wonderful faces from Spain and Morocco at Look Up Radmila More About: Travel , Photos , Love , Faces
We're Back!!!
Oh. My. God.
Spain is beautiful, an...
2007-06-13 12:56:00 We're Back !!!Oh. My. God.Spain is beautiful, and if I didn't have those tedious work/language/unemployable in Spain issues...I'd move there in a heartbeat.Anyhow...there will be more to come, I just have to get my bearings.The picture above was taken in an adorable little cafe in Madrid (is there any other kind?).The little Flamenco dancer is one of the things I coveted when I was a little girl, and now...while I love, love, love those dolls...I could never make it fit without purchasing an ornate buffet cabinet and starting a collection of such dolls.Succumbing to the cliche Eastern European style of knick knacks that don't match in a hard to dust setting.So...I took a picture to keep instead.Many thanks to Chris and Jacqueline for taking care of the place while we were gone. More About: Travel , Beautiful , Beau
How To Make Breast Milk Cheese
Don't say that I ...
2007-06-12 04:49:00 How To Make Brea st Milk Cheese Don't say that I never taught you anything during my stay as guest blogger.My extensive experience in making Paneer compelled me to try something different, that is, making Paneer out of my own breastmilk. Basically this is human cheese. Why would I do that? Well, basically, there are about twenty bags (each 150ml) of frozen breastmilk in the fridge, and they have passed their three months drinkability period, which means I would not be able to donate the milk like I did before. But the milk is still less than six month old, which is the actual expiry date. So what do I do with it? I could make cream soup like I did several months ago. But I really wanted to try something different, and making Breast Milk Paneer sounds really exciting.
Lovely M. from Working at Home drew my attention t...
2007-06-11 17:14:00 Lovely M. from Working at Home drew my attention to this review of last night's Soprano's episode.The climax was the lack of a climax: all the weight and tension brought upon by eight years of loyalty and betrayal, arrogance and greed. That abrupt ending forced viewers to recognize their own responses to Tony?s life, their expectations for violence, or even for the conclusion of a sentence. Sometimes life goes on, and sometimes it just stops.Okay, so that's a review that shed some light on it and gave me more food for thought other than my own insightful, 'WTF??!!!'. More About: Attention , Lovely , Drew
Do your family members ever send you shit that mak...
2007-06-07 18:50:00 Do your family members ever send you shit that makes you wonder if they're just trying to provoke you? I'm still trying to figure out what point my sister (who never reads my blog) out west was trying to make with this:RULES FOR ENTERING ALBERTA:1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot.2. Let's get this straight, it's called a gravel road. I drive a pickup to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way. 3. They are pigs, cattle and oil wells. That 's what they smell like to you. They smell like money to us. Get over it. Don't like it? The No. 2 goes south and No. 1 oes east and west. Pick one.4. So, you drive a sixty-thousand dollar car. We're real impressed. We have a quarter-million dollar combine that we drive three weeks a year. 5. So every person in a pickup waves. It's called being friendly. Try to understand the concept.6. We started hunting and fishing when we were nine years old. Yeah, we saw "Bambi" too. We got over it.7. If a cell phone ri... More About: Family , Shit , Send , Members
Oh The Pain
glumbert.com - Can you spell socially...
2007-06-07 13:53:00 Oh The Pain glumbert.com - Can you spell socially inept?I'm just really feeling bad for this lady. More About: Lumber , Ally , Spell
Guest Blogging
Whenever I go out of town, my mom ...
2007-06-06 20:47:00 Guest Blogg ing Whenever I go out of town, my mom comes over the apartment to get my mail and feed my cat. I'll give her a call and ask her how everything is going."Fine," she'll say. "Except I never see your cat when I'm there feeding it. I know it's around somewhere because the food keeps going down but I have no idea where it is hiding."Guest blogging is almost the exact same thing except I don't have to put Radmila's newspaper on the table. You go through the motions, put up a few posts but you don't actually really see any new comments. When Radmila comes back I'll tell her that everything went well except all her readers were hiding behind the couch when Jacqueline and I stopped by to feed them. More About: Town , Guest
Fire on Marlborough Street [1975]
From WorldFam...
2007-06-06 06:01:00 Fire on Marlboro ugh Street [1975]From WorldFamousPhotos.com:On July 22, 1975, photograph Stanley J. Forman working for the Boston Herald American newspaper when a police scanner picked up an emergency: ?Fire on Marlborough Street!?Climbed atop the fire truck, Forman shot the picture of a young woman, Diana Bryant, and a very young girl, Tiare Jones when they fell helplessly. Diana Bryant was pronounced dead at the scene. The young girl lived. Despite a heroic effort, O?Neil knew he had been just seconds away from saving the lives of both. Photo coverage from the tragic event garnered Stanley Forman a Pulitzer Prize. But more important, his work paved the way for Boston and other states to mandate tougher fire safety codes. More About: Fire
What the World Eats
From Time.com comes this pi...
2007-06-05 20:30:00 What the World EatsFrom Time .com comes this picture gallery of families from around the world and their groceries for a week. More About: The World
Audrey Hepburn Photo Gallery
Plenty of wonderf...
2007-06-04 21:58:00 Audrey Hepburn Photo Gallery Plenty of wonderful photos can be found here. More About: Audrey Hepburn , Audrey
Sarah Silverman Blasts Paris Hilton Live
And th...
2007-06-04 20:40:00 Sarah Silverman Blasts Paris Hilton Live And the camera is there for a reaction shot... More About: Sarah
MAGICAL BOOK TOUR
I am in the process of readin...
2007-06-04 19:56:00 MAGICAL BOOK TOURI am in the process of reading the million books I have in an attempt to reduce my bookage.I want to give these books to other people, but I don't want to do all the traditional ways of getting rid of books e.g. Book Crossing, used bookstores, in my condo lobby...because it's boring. I want my books to go to a good home. I want someone who will tell me if they liked the book or not. Someone who can tell me that the book changed their lives or that they read three pages of it and it's now being as a coaster.So with that in mind I'd like to just mail you a book. Yup, I just want to put a book in the mail to someone who just likes books. I want to suprise someone with a book.Now that I have access to a whole new audience, I thought I'd make this offer to the Radmila fan club. I will send you a book if you'd like one. I won't tell you which book, it'll be a big honking mystery...one day a book will show up at your home and you can enjoy it.Do not worry, becaus... More About: Tour , Al B , Process , Magica
Cat Cam
This guy attached a camera to his cat a...
2007-06-04 02:35:00 Cat CamThis guy attached a camera to his cat and is posting the resulting pictures. More About: Camera , Attach , Atta
The Book Inscriptions Project
Posting pictures ...
2007-06-02 07:28:00 The Book Inscriptions Project Posti ng pictures of inscriptions found in books: We collect personal messages written in ink (or pen or marker or crayon or grape jelly) inside books.Pictures count. So do poems. So do notes on paper found in a book. The more heartfelt the better.Send a copy of the cover and the inscription and any details about how, when and where you found it. More About: E Book
Under Stairs Drawers
Brilliant!
Each step has i...
2007-06-02 06:57:00 Under Stairs Draw er sBrilliant !Each step has its own drawer. I saw something just like this on Small Spaces, Big Style and they mentioned the idea comes from yachts and other boats where space is at a premium and under-stair storage is pretty common. I wonder how difficult it would be to retrofit an existing staircase with something like this. More About: Step , Under
Argument to Beethoven's 5th
No cue cards, no te...
2007-06-01 04:57:00 Argument to Beethoven 's 5thNo cue cards, no teleprompters, and no second takes--legendary funnyman Sid Caesar pioneered live television sketch comedy with his 1950s sitcoms Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour. This classic sketch is "Argument to Beethoven's 5th," Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray play a married couple in a argument with pantomimed action and the dialogue is classic music. More About: Cards , Oven , Hove
The Lohanization of America
A mom takes her dau...
2007-06-01 04:27:00 The Lohanization of America A mom takes her daughter to a tanning salon to make her look more like Lindsey Lohan for her school's graduation pictures. I'm absolutely outraged by this. The girl won't truly look like Lindsey Lohan until they put her behind the wheel with a bottle of tequila to wash down the Oxycontin.
Gary Parker's Portraits of Little People
Amazing ...
2007-05-31 18:06:00 Gary Parker 's Portrait s of Little People Amazing photos.The purpose of these galleries is to educate the public as to the many varieties of dwarfism as well as to reflect the huge spirits of the beautiful individuals who have so kindly agreed to be photographed for this project. More About: Gary
365 Portraits
From here:
I'm Bill Wadman, a Ne...
2007-05-31 03:42:00 365 Portrait sFrom here:I'm Bill Wadman, a New York-based photographer who after completing my first 365 Project, and then a weekly 52 Project, have taken it upon myself to shoot and post one portrait every day of 2007. The photo will have been taken that day, and each day will be a different person. Some will be in the studio, some will be in the wild. Hopefully they will all be interesting. More About: Portraits , Bill W , TRAI
and a WTF??!!!
A teen employee in Albeta Tim Ho...
2007-05-30 19:35:00 and a WTF??!!!A teen employee in Albeta Tim Hortons posted a sign in the drive thru that said, 'No Druken Indians Allowed'. You know, as a 'joke'.So of course a boycott of Tim Horton's has been started by aborignals in Albeta. The company of course has issued apologies..blah, blah, blah.But the employee wasn't fired for this act. The statement from the company was this."I think it was one of those youthful things where she just didn't realize and she was made very aware of her actions and the consequences and was very remorseful," said Douglas. "We decided it was in her best interests -- and a learning experience -- that we didn't terminate, but she has been disciplined and reprimanded." Um...no. I'm sorry, but as far as am I concerned, this is requires termination. She may be remorseful and it may be one of those stupid things you do as a teen (although I don't remember being doing anything this hateful as a teen.) However, I do think that as a teen you have to star... More About: Employee
Voytek, The Iranian Soldier Bear of Monte Cassino
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2007-05-30 01:57:00 Voytek, The Iranian Sold ier Bear of Monte CassinoFrom Iranian.com: The cub clung desperately to his substitute mother all through the tortured journey across Persia, Iraq and Jordan, along vast distances that seemed to loose heart and succumb to the despair of barrenness. Sometimes the man would lock the bear in the warmth of his greatcoat so that it became part of him. In the evenings, as he sat with the other men around the fire telling tales late into the night, the bear cub would be rocked to sleep in the sound of his immense laughter. In time, the orphan lost himself in the lives of these strangers and entangled himself completely in the rhythms and cadences of their speech. From that time onwards he became wholly theirs: body, will and soul. In this way, Voytek the Iranian brown bear from Hamadan entered the live... More About: Rani
glumbert.com - When graphic artists get bored
2007-05-28 19:09:00 glumbert.com - When graphic artists get bored More About: Tube , Artists , Bored , Graphic , Lumber
Women in Film
From the creator of "Women in Ar...
2007-05-28 18:25:00 Women in Film From the creator of "Women in Art" comes "Women in Film"80 years of female portraits in cinema More About: Women , Creator
The Insects' Christmas
A stop motion animation ...
More articles from this author:2007-05-28 18:14:00 The Insects ' Christmas A stop motion animation from around 1913 by Ladislas Starevich who is famous for using insects and animals as his films' protagonists. More About: Animation , Stop Motion , Stop 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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