I've been waiting for Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation to be available at my library ever since it came out. I wasn't having high hopes for ever catching it on the shelf for the next several years at the rate it was being checked out. 
| I was listening to our local jack station in the car and heard Photograph which is a song I've always loved but didn't know who sang it. I finally wrote down the song so that I could look it up when I came back home. At home I listened to several songs from the All the Right Reasons album and decided I needed to buy the whole thing from the iTunes music store. I am now the proud owner of my first Nickelback album. :) |  |
“[E]verybody was born to do great things in their own life, and as long as you are trying to be somebody else you will never be what you were created to be.”
| You Are 56% Evil |
 Fear not though - you are on your way to world domination. |
Sex with a partner is 400% better
Susan Dey's performance is wonderful, and I found the plot to be very intriguing for the time it was made. I doubt today's general movie-going audience would be wowed by it, but put your 80s shoes back on and give this movie a try (if you can find it!).Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr Larry Roberts becomes implicated in the murder of several models, all who have come to him requesting he make micro-surgical alterations to their features. Roberts realizes that model Cindy Fairmont is one of the next intended victims and tries to protect her. In so doing, he uncovers a scheme by an advertizing company to hypnotize TV viewers with pulses of light hidden in the on-screen images of models' eyes and to eliminate and replace the original models with computer-generated simulations.
Pints
Black & Tan
Cream stout ice cream swirled with chocolate ice cream
Neapolitan Dynamite
Cherry Garcia and Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice creams, side by side
Turtle Soup
Vanilla ice cream with fudge & caramel cashews & a caramel swirl
Vermonty Python
Coffee liqueur ice cream with a chocolate cookie crumb swirl & fudge cows
Sorbet
Berried Treasure
Chunky Blueberry and Blackberry Sorbet Swirled with Zesty Lemon Sorbet
Jamaican Me Crazy
Chunky Pineapple sorbet with a passion fruit swirl
Strawberry Kiwi Swirl
Chunky Strawberry sorbet swirled with kiwi sorbet
Bars
Vanilla Original Ice Cream
Vanilla ice cream with a milk chocolate coating
The Cone
Cherry Garcia
Unique waffle cone filled with Cherry ice cream with sweet dark cherries and topped with fudge chunks
Cookie Dough
Unique waffle cone filled with Vanilla Ice Cream with a Cookie Dough Swirl and fudge chunks, topped with
fudge chunks.
Only at your local Scoop Shop
Bananas on the Rum
Banana ice cream with a buttery rum brown sugar swirl
Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl
Milk chocolate ice cream with a thick peanut butter swirl
Lemonade Sorbet
(B&J's simple description: Lemon sorbet)
Vanilla Fudge Chip No Sugar Added
Vanilla ice cream, sweetened with Splenda Brand Sweetener, with fudge chips
Acclaimed director Larry Clark delivers his most powerful fiml since Kids. Marty is a tormented surfer who, despite vicious abuse, relies on his longtime pal, Bobby, for rides to the beach and local South Florida bars. When Bobby turns his unwanted attention to Marty's new girlfriend Lisa and her best friend Ally, Lisa decides Bobby's reign of terror must end. Assembling a crew of alienated suburban teens, she forms a deadly plan to get Bobby out of the way once and for all. As the conspiracy unfolds, friends turn into enemies and casual acquaintances become co-defendants to a murder that rocked America to its core.
| Your Five Factor Personality Profile |
 Extroversion: You have low extroversion. You are quiet and reserved in most social situations. A low key, laid back lifestyle is important to you. You tend to bond slowly, over time, with one or two people. Conscientiousness: You have medium conscientiousness. You're generally good at balancing work and play. When you need to buckle down, you can usually get tasks done. But you've been known to goof off when you know you can get away with it. Agreeableness: You have medium agreeableness. You're generally a friendly and trusting person. But you also have a healthy dose of cynicism. You get along well with others, as long as they play fair. Neuroticism: You have medium neuroticism. You're generally cool and collected, but sometimes you do panic. Little worries or problems can consume you, draining your energy. Your life is pretty smooth, but there's a few emotional bumps you'd like to get rid of. Openness to experience: Your openness to new experiences is medium. You are generally broad minded when it come to new things. But if something crosses a moral line, there's no way you'll approve of it. You are suspicious of anything too wacky, though you do still consider creativity a virtue. |
Poppy Cede -- [noun]: A real life terminator 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com |
| You Are A Blueberry Martini |
 You are usually the first of your friends to find a cool new dive bar or cocktail. You should never: Drink mystery drinks strangers hand you. Unless you want to wind up in a foreign country. Your ideal party: Is mobile, hopping from party to party. Your drinking soulmates: Those with an Orange Martini personality. Your drinking rivals: Those with a Chocolate Martini personality. |
| The PJ's You Are Most Like: His Shirt |
 So much so that you love to have him with you 24-7 And when he's gone, wearing his shirt is the next best thing |
You can tell from her pout* that she has a true gift, even though she plays like she's bad at it. Doesn't her mouth in this photo kinda remind you of TJ? Yah, I knew you thought so, too!
Celebrities like Jessica Simpson, Jack Johnson*, Westlife, Ms Dynamite and The Pussycat Dolls have been named the worst musicians of the past year. The Naomi Awards, organized by British digital broadcaster Music Choice, branded Simpson the Worst International Female Solo Artist and Johnson the Worst International Male Solo Artist, while Westlife were the biggest ‘losers’ this year, receive the Worst International Group and Worst International Album and a special award for Outstandingly Bad Contribution To Music.
Rapper Ms Dynamite was named Worst Urban Act, while sexy six-piece The Pussycat Dolls took the Worst International Breakthrough Artist title.
You are so gorgeous! And, you are a wonderful person at the very same time! I love your hard edge while at the same time your adoration of the color pink and Hello Kitty. Why no one has snatched you up yet is beyond me. A Million Little Pieces is about my memories of my time in a drug and alcohol treatment center. As has been accurately revealed by two journalists at an Internet Web site, and subsequently acknowledged by me, during the process of writing the book, I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose of the book. I sincerely apologize to those readers who have been disappointed by my actions.
I first sat down to write the book in the spring of 1997. I wrote what is now the first forty pages of it. I stopped because I didn’t feel ready to continue to do it, didn’t think I was ready to express some of the trauma I had experienced. I started again in the fall of 2000. I had been working in the film industry and was deeply unsatisfied with what I was doing. I had wanted to write books and was writing films. I saved enough money to give myself eighteen months to write the book.
I didn’t initially think of what I was writing as nonfiction or fiction, memoir or autobiography. I wanted to use my experiences to tell my story about addiction and alcoholism, about recovery, about family and friends and faith and love, about redemption and hope. I wanted to write, in the best-case scenario, a book that would change lives, would help people who were struggling, would inspire them in some way. I wanted to write a book that would detail the fight addicts and alcoholics experience in their minds and in their bodies, and detail why that fight is difficult to win. I wanted to write a book that would help the friends and family members of addicts and alcoholics understand that fight.
A Million Little Pieces is about my memories of my time in a drug and alcohol treatment center. As has been accurately revealed by two journalists at an Internet Web site, and subsequently acknowledged by me, during the process of writing the book, I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose of the book. I sincerely apologize to those readers who have been disappointed by my actions.
I first sat down to write the book in the spring of 1997. I wrote what is now the first forty pages of it. I stopped because I didn’t feel ready to continue to do it, didn’t think I was ready to express some of the trauma I had experienced. I started again in the fall of 2000. I had been working in the film industry and was deeply unsatisfied with what I was doing. I had wanted to write books and was writing films. I saved enough money to give myself eighteen months to write the book.
I didn’t initially think of what I was writing as nonfiction or fiction, memoir or autobiography. I wanted to use my experiences to tell my story about addiction and alcoholism, about recovery, about family and friends and faith and love, about redemption and hope. I wanted to write, in the best-case scenario, a book that would change lives, would help people who were struggling, would inspire them in some way. I wanted to write a book that would detail the fight addicts and alcoholics experience in their minds and in their bodies, and detail why that fight is difficult to win. I wanted to write a book that would help the friends and family members of addicts and alcoholics understand that fight.
As I wrote, I worked primarily from memory. I also used supporting documents, such as medical records, therapists’ notes, and personal journals,when I had them, and when they were relevant. I wanted the stories in the book to ebb and flow, to have dramatic arcs, to have the tension that all great stories require. I altered events and details all the way through the book. Some of those include my role in a train accident that killed a girl from my school. While I was not, in real-life, directly involved in the accident, I was profoundly affected by it. Others involved jail time I served, which in the book is three months, but which in reality was only several hours, and certain criminal events, including an arrest in Ohio, which was embellished. There has been much discussion, and dispute, about a scene in the book involving a root-canal procedure that takes place without anesthesia. I wrote that passage from memory, and have medical records that seem to support it. My account has been questioned by the treatment facility, and they believe my memory may be flawed.
In addition, names and identifying characteristics of all the treatment patients in the book and all of the facility’s employees, characteristics including occupations, ages, places of residence, and places and means of death, were changed to protect the anonymity of those involved in this period in my life. This was done in the spirit of respecting every individual’s anonymity, which is something we were urged to do while in treatment, and to continue to do after we left.
I made other alterations in my portrayal of myself, most of which portrayed me in ways that made me tougher and more daring and more aggressive than in reality I was, or I am. People cope with adversity in many different ways, ways that are deeply personal. I think one way people cope is by developing a skewed perception of themselves that allows them to overcome and do things they thought they couldn’t do before. My mistake, and it is one I deeply regret, is writing about the person I created in my mind to help me cope, and not the person who went through the experience.
There is much debate now about the respective natures of works of memoir, nonfiction, and fiction. That debate will likely continue for some time. I believe, and I understand others strongly disagree, that memoir allows the writer to work from memory instead of from a strict journalistic or historical standard. It is about impression and feeling, about individual recollection. This memoir is a combination of facts about my life and certain embellishments. It is a subjective truth, altered by the mind of a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. Ultimately, it’s a story, and one that I could not have written without having lived the life I’ve lived.
I never expected the book to become as successful as it has, to sell anywhere close to the number of copies it has sold. The experience has been shocking for me, incredibly humbling, and at times terrifying. Throughout this process, I have met thousands of readers, and heard from many thousands more, who were deeply affected by the book, and whose lives were changed by it. I am deeply sorry to any readers who I have disappointed and I hope these revelations will not alter their faith in the book’s central message—that drug addiction and alcoholism can be overcome, and there is always a path to redemption if you fight to find one. Thirteen years after I left treatment, I’m still on the path, and I hope, ultimately, I’ll get there.
James Frey
The Jim Henson Co. has set Genndy Tartakovsky to direct "Power of the Dark Crystal," sequel to 1982 fantasy film "The Dark Crystal."
Tartakovsky, who created the animated series hits "Samurai Jack," "Dexter's Laboratory" and "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," will involve his Orphanage Animation Studios to take the lead on the CG animation elements for the puppet-driven film. (Variety)
| You Are a Natural Beauty! |
 One that looks good in the morning - without a stich of makeup That's doesn't mean you're a total hippie chic though You have style, but for you, style is effortless |
