Explore. Learn. Shop. Love.
Be close to friends. Party. Drink. Laugh. Cry. Kiss the ground in Germany when I land.
Freeze. Be on top. Spreche Deutsche. Witness the wonderful madness.
Revel in the City of Light. Parlez-Vous Français (badly, but parlez-vous nonetheless). Get closer than I've ever been, to being alive...in Bohemia. (And, the first person who can tell me what that line is from, I'll send you a Czech goody.)
Admire the view.
Train it. Get lost. Find something.
Friday, May 26, 2006
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Fan-spec-tacu-lastic!
My dear friends at Moojuice Records in Scotland have just launched some amazing music here in the United States.
Log on immediately and purchase these CD's. No excuses people. They will knock your socks off. For those of you flailing around in our pathetically poppy American Music Scene*, this is a welcome respite:
Keith Anderson
Scottish Enlightenment
Craig Rennie
Check out the artists - their profiles and a podcast are available on the website.
You also must click on the "Radio Moo" link and listen. Every song has amazing vocal and instrumental elements. (Roxy's favorite is "Turning Back to You" by Keith Anderson. It makes her feel like someone slammed her in the chest with reality.)
Stay tuned to the Moojuice site for future releases. While you're there, sign up for news and information delivered directly to your inbox!
Most of you know that I don't promote music, books, politics, and/or whatever unless it plucks my heartstrings. If you visit Moojuice and support the site, I guaran-fricken-tee you that you will not be disappointed**.
*yes, i know there are many fantastic american musicians as well. unfortunately the things that get popular for the most part are crap***.
**just let me know if you aren't completely satisfied and i'll reimburse you with a big "you don't know what you're talking about" on my blog.
***if it's not scottish, it's crap.
Log on immediately and purchase these CD's. No excuses people. They will knock your socks off. For those of you flailing around in our pathetically poppy American Music Scene*, this is a welcome respite:
Keith Anderson
Scottish Enlightenment
Craig Rennie
Check out the artists - their profiles and a podcast are available on the website.
You also must click on the "Radio Moo" link and listen. Every song has amazing vocal and instrumental elements. (Roxy's favorite is "Turning Back to You" by Keith Anderson. It makes her feel like someone slammed her in the chest with reality.)
Stay tuned to the Moojuice site for future releases. While you're there, sign up for news and information delivered directly to your inbox!
Most of you know that I don't promote music, books, politics, and/or whatever unless it plucks my heartstrings. If you visit Moojuice and support the site, I guaran-fricken-tee you that you will not be disappointed**.
*yes, i know there are many fantastic american musicians as well. unfortunately the things that get popular for the most part are crap***.
**just let me know if you aren't completely satisfied and i'll reimburse you with a big "you don't know what you're talking about" on my blog.
***if it's not scottish, it's crap.
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
What happened to John Mellencamp's America?
Did it ever really exist? Are we fed too much in the media? Are any of the "facts" we hear really true?
TRUTHOUT
Oh but ain’t that america for you and me
Ain’t that america we’re someting to see baby
Ain’t that america, home of the free
Little pink houses for you and me
TRUTHOUT
Oh but ain’t that america for you and me
Ain’t that america we’re someting to see baby
Ain’t that america, home of the free
Little pink houses for you and me
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Booty-licious
I've been a bit weird as of late - really crabby, kind of desperate to do something meaningful, and hoping for some world change.
Instead of finding these things, I've made some time to party.
Any ideas for pirate related games, please feel free to comment:
Arrrrrr, me maties! Prepare to be boarded!
It's time to surrender your booty and drink some rum! Yo ho, wear your pirate (wench, swashbuckler) best and join us for the Pirate Booty Birthday Bash to celebrate Pirate Queen Roxy's day of aging. Don't bring her any booty though - her first mate already pilages enough loot for her.
Avast! Get on the boat, you scallywags! Partake of our icy bevys and bring some to share with yer hearties. We'll have victuals for some grubbin' and loot for the takin'.
Shiver me timbers!
(Brush up on yer pirate speak here: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.html)
(Get yer pirate name here: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/links.html#piratename)
(Impress the bilge rats with yer pirate pick up lines: http://talklikeapirate.com/howto.html#pickup)
Instead of finding these things, I've made some time to party.
Any ideas for pirate related games, please feel free to comment:
Arrrrrr, me maties! Prepare to be boarded!
It's time to surrender your booty and drink some rum! Yo ho, wear your pirate (wench, swashbuckler) best and join us for the Pirate Booty Birthday Bash to celebrate Pirate Queen Roxy's day of aging. Don't bring her any booty though - her first mate already pilages enough loot for her.
Avast! Get on the boat, you scallywags! Partake of our icy bevys and bring some to share with yer hearties. We'll have victuals for some grubbin' and loot for the takin'.
Shiver me timbers!
(Brush up on yer pirate speak here: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.html)
(Get yer pirate name here: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/links.html#piratename)
(Impress the bilge rats with yer pirate pick up lines: http://talklikeapirate.com/howto.html#pickup)
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
It would be great if...
I was currently drinking an Adios M-F'er on the shores of Bali.
I won the lotto 'cuz I wouldn't be one of those damn fools who loses it all and I'd invest it so that I could do something meaningful with my life like actually help people who need it.
If I could find enough time to write and not worry about working at a job that isn't truly my cup of java.
More people know who Thembi Ngubane is instead of insert favorite American idol dweeb here is. (though Kelly Clarkson does rock)
More people cared about the babies in Darfur than the babies that celebrities are spawning.
If Matthew McConaughey & I really had had a big adventure yesterday where we escaped this freaky tall guy named Robert who was trying to get us to turn all Mormon and not in a Big Love kind of way because he was attempting to drag us shoeless and screaming into a church with Jesus smiling down on us so we fled to a soccer picnic hosted by my best friend's father and right before we got there in view of everyone including my husband Mr. McCona-hottie kissed me and told me to stay beautiful just like in my dream last night. Goddamn he is hot.
I won the lotto 'cuz I wouldn't be one of those damn fools who loses it all and I'd invest it so that I could do something meaningful with my life like actually help people who need it.
If I could find enough time to write and not worry about working at a job that isn't truly my cup of java.
More people know who Thembi Ngubane is instead of insert favorite American idol dweeb here is. (though Kelly Clarkson does rock)
More people cared about the babies in Darfur than the babies that celebrities are spawning.
If Matthew McConaughey & I really had had a big adventure yesterday where we escaped this freaky tall guy named Robert who was trying to get us to turn all Mormon and not in a Big Love kind of way because he was attempting to drag us shoeless and screaming into a church with Jesus smiling down on us so we fled to a soccer picnic hosted by my best friend's father and right before we got there in view of everyone including my husband Mr. McCona-hottie kissed me and told me to stay beautiful just like in my dream last night. Goddamn he is hot.
Friday, April 21, 2006
Roxy is posting pics
Because she is too scatterbrained to write, Roxy wants you to contemplate this picture.
She thinks it says much about the framework of life - looking forward with a view of what has happened in the past.
However, she also thinks Hootie & The Blowfish may have been bordering on brilliant with their album title "Cracked Rear View."
On that note, happy Friday.
She thinks it says much about the framework of life - looking forward with a view of what has happened in the past.
However, she also thinks Hootie & The Blowfish may have been bordering on brilliant with their album title "Cracked Rear View."
On that note, happy Friday.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
gnawing at the ties that bind...
When I get the overwhelming urge to pack up my crap and move directly back to Virginia, I force myself to look at pictures like this and remember the Arizona sunsets I've seen first hand...
Then, I still want to move.
Then, I still want to move.
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Grand affinity
The branches, once imbued with the rich brown hues of life, are now ashen and stark. Shadows shift and snake around the smooth contours. The tree, in its last stages of dying, is a beautiful and sad sight to behold.
Alasdair & I were lucky enough to see snow at the Grand Canyon a few weeks ago. Of course, after it snowed, it became exceedingly warm before falling into wintry mix. I love the unpredictable climate at a place that is so steadfast.
Alasdair & I were lucky enough to see snow at the Grand Canyon a few weeks ago. Of course, after it snowed, it became exceedingly warm before falling into wintry mix. I love the unpredictable climate at a place that is so steadfast.
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Touch of Gray
This weekend has been awesome.
Friday night, I reveled as my Boston-loving hubby was bashed and heckled by Yankees fans. Then, after the game as we were driving home, we watched as one of America's finest puked out the window down the side of his Air Force buddy's hatchback. The kid was in full dress regalia. He then exited the car in a McDonald's parking lot, reached for a tree to stabilize himself, and nearly fell over when he missed the branch.
Where was my cameraphone?
Today, we had to go to the place I hate the most. The mall. What a pit of gluttonous despair. We stayed long enough to laugh at a teenage girl who had brown hair with the top layers dyed a shocking platinum white. Who knew skunk was in this year? If I spent more time in malls, perhaps I'd know this.
And, to cap it off, we just left the Arizona Sting game where our boys got skunked. Just like the girl with the platinum hair, it was disgusting to behold.
However, I finally bought me some Sufjan Stevens and I've been rocking out Roxy style to "Chicago" which I must say is a fine piece of music genius. Actually, my stellar day has been made possible by awesome music everywhere we went. When we stopped for lunch, Gordon Lightfoot's "Sundown" was on. I sang "Mercedes Benz" on my way out of the DMV. And, while I peed in the ladies room at the game tonight, I ruled my stall by singing and toilet-swaying to the Grateful Dead. I stayed for the whole song, and then had to stay even longer because "Pink Houses" came on.
I rocked the whole bathroom.
Oh yeah.
Friday night, I reveled as my Boston-loving hubby was bashed and heckled by Yankees fans. Then, after the game as we were driving home, we watched as one of America's finest puked out the window down the side of his Air Force buddy's hatchback. The kid was in full dress regalia. He then exited the car in a McDonald's parking lot, reached for a tree to stabilize himself, and nearly fell over when he missed the branch.
Where was my cameraphone?
Today, we had to go to the place I hate the most. The mall. What a pit of gluttonous despair. We stayed long enough to laugh at a teenage girl who had brown hair with the top layers dyed a shocking platinum white. Who knew skunk was in this year? If I spent more time in malls, perhaps I'd know this.
And, to cap it off, we just left the Arizona Sting game where our boys got skunked. Just like the girl with the platinum hair, it was disgusting to behold.
However, I finally bought me some Sufjan Stevens and I've been rocking out Roxy style to "Chicago" which I must say is a fine piece of music genius. Actually, my stellar day has been made possible by awesome music everywhere we went. When we stopped for lunch, Gordon Lightfoot's "Sundown" was on. I sang "Mercedes Benz" on my way out of the DMV. And, while I peed in the ladies room at the game tonight, I ruled my stall by singing and toilet-swaying to the Grateful Dead. I stayed for the whole song, and then had to stay even longer because "Pink Houses" came on.
I rocked the whole bathroom.
Oh yeah.
Saturday, April 01, 2006
In the 21st Century
In my business class last week, we briefly discussed immigration policy. I asked my students to put aside their personal feelings about immigration, and look at the pros and cons of the core issue from a business perspective.
After debating taxes, guest worker visas, social programs, wage fluctuations, diversity, the service industry, and American expectations, I think everyone was truly thinking about the issue.
Any personal feelings put aside, business in this country was founded by immigrants. It has been sustained by immigrants. It will continue to evolve because of immigrants.
Only one of the reasons why the government should be paying attention to immigration policy - not just a bill that criminalizes the act of illegal entry. What about the big picture?
After debating taxes, guest worker visas, social programs, wage fluctuations, diversity, the service industry, and American expectations, I think everyone was truly thinking about the issue.
Any personal feelings put aside, business in this country was founded by immigrants. It has been sustained by immigrants. It will continue to evolve because of immigrants.
Only one of the reasons why the government should be paying attention to immigration policy - not just a bill that criminalizes the act of illegal entry. What about the big picture?
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