I hadn’t cruised Ebay in a long time so recently while perusing stores for odd ephemera, movie star memorabilia, and other stuff I can clutter my life with, I came across this picture of Maximilian Schell.
(of Judgement at Nuremberg –for which he won the Oscar–and The Black Hole).
He was quite the hunky back then, eh?

**was [...]

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…check out how much my garden has grown!
I’ve got Cayenne Peppers ripening red. I’ve been researching (aka Googling) how to cook with Cayenne Peppers and came across some interesting ideas like this. But if anyone else has some good ideas for what to do with Fresh Grown Cayenne Peppers please let me know.
Here they are:
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Yikes. Where does the week go? I finished teaching on the 17th of July, then graded for a couple of days. Last week, however, I pretty much just chilled.
Saw movies:
Sex and the City –was ok, fun. I never really watched the show but Ted did. It seemed a tad too long but it wasn’t torture.
Batman/Dark [...]

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Yesterday we celebrated my sister Andrea’s 40th birthday (and also the finalization of the adoption of her baby, Olivia Claire).
Ted and I were in charge of decorations (naturally) and so we made it a sort of luau theme.
I can’t believe my sister is 40– which means i’m next– (my sister and I are 9 months [...]

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Things are finally getting back to normal.
I feel better after a nasty cold/sore throat/lost voice a couple of weeks ago.
There’s only two more weeks of summer school teaching left!
I finished writing a grant that I had been working on for a few weeks. I’m trying to find ways to write (nearly) full time next year. [...]

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I just realized I haven’t posted about Tshirts in a long time.
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love crazy T-shirts. Occasionally i’ll wear a T-shirt to teach in, but sometimes I worry that that i’m dressing too casual for teaching (though i’ve seen other teachers in shorts and flip-flops). When I wear T-shirts [...]

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Another star from the Golden Age of the Hollywood Musical has left us.
Cyd Charisse died today in Los Angeles at age 86.
Read her obit here in the New York Times.
And see her paired marvelously with Fred Astaire in The Bandwagon.

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I’m so digging on The Believer Magazine’s 2008 Film Issue.
This is the first time i’ve ever bought a copy. I’ve read it at friends’ houses, i’ve been to the website– i’ve long been a fan of Heidi Julavitz (In grad-school I studied for a couple of semester’s under her hubby Ben Marcus). But for [...]

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ok ok, another quick movie review…
last night Ted and I watched Margot at the Wedding.
Ooof. I loved Noah Baumbach’s last movie, The Squid and the Whale, and this one is pretty genius as well but SO SO SO twisted. I may be twisted myself, though, because I like how Baumbach puts it all out [...]

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After taking care of my 8 month old neice yesterday (yes! I fed the baby! mashed sweet potatoes!) I decided I needed to go see The Ruins. (how’s that for a segue/non sequitur?).
If you haven’t seen the commercials, The Ruins is the new horror film about the group of young, attractive people who find themselves [...]

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