Sleep No More Game

http://rissarants.com/post/20117022487/sleep-no-more-whats-your-gamerscore#notes

Heart

And Old Rosie Memory

I'm the 3rd or 4th photo in the slideshow.  Rosie made this and posted it on her blog the day after the book signing...  It shows the decoupage box I made her.  Yes, TOTAL dork. But you get no apologies from me.  :)

Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer

Brilliant fake movie trailer that highlights hollywood cliches.

Calling Card from Heaven

Hearts found

Adam Lambert - Mad World [HQ] - Lyrics

AWESOME

When the World Stopped Turning: A 9/11 tribute

I was living in Brooklyn at the time, and had just driven by the WTC across the east river on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. I didn't...... have my radio on, but I remember seeing lots of emergency vehicles driving toward Manhattan as I was heading east to work on Long Island. When I got to the office, everyone was huddled around a small portable TV trying to get a picture. I called Dad so he could tell me what he was seeing on TV. We were on the phone when the 2nd plane hit. I looked out my office window and could see the plumes of smoke in the City 25 miles away.

Wonderful Short Film

Watch this! http://foreversnotsolong.com/.

I really don't want to die alone, and this really played into those fears for me. But it was great.

On Board The Queen of Hearts

Sweden got talent - Naked guys dancing!

Hysterical

Mayo Clinic Heart

Triad of Hearts

1815 Wood Avenue

My Childhood Home
(one of many, actually)

Lost and Found Heart

This was waiting in the L&F at B&N.

Judy Shepard Joins Reid to Announce Hate Crimes Amendment

There are actually young people who do not know who Matthew Shepard was....

Sounds of Rain--choir made with only hands and feet

This is pretty cool!

Heart by the Trash Shoot

I was distracted when I saw this and tossed my keys with the trash. I
made a frantic and miraculous lunge and just managed to catch them on
my pinky. Tell me these hearts are not divine in some way!

Kathy Griffin!

The Cryptic Canvas Movie Game

Click here to to go to their website and play this AWESOME movie game. There are clues to the titles of 50 recent movies (most within the past 20 years). See if you can find all 50.

Neil Patrick Harris (NPH!) sings at the Tony Awards 2009 - Closing Number

ABSOLUTELY PERFECT!

The Most Misunderstood Woman in Entertainment

I LOVE this woman!
Give Rosie O'Donnell a chance people! She is the real deal!

Richard Gage on KMPH Fox 26 in Fresno, CA

I don't know what I believe about all this. But I KNOW I don't believe that WTC 7 came down on its own. I don't know who, and I don't know why, but there is more to the story, and we aren't supposed to find out about it.

Great E-mail I got from Dad

An Easily Understandable Explanation of Derivative Markets

Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem, she comes up with new marketing plan that allows her customers to drink now, but pay later.

She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans).

Word gets around about Heidi's "drink now, pay later" marketing strategy and, as a result, increasing numbers of customers flood into Heidi's bar. Soon she has the largest sales volume for any bar in Detroit.

By providing her customers' freedom from immediate payment demands, Heidi gets no resistance when, at regular intervals, she substantially increases her prices for wine and beer, the most consumed beverages. Consequently, Heidi's gross sales volume increases massively.

A young and dynamic vice-president at the local bank recognizes that these customer debts constitute valuable future assets and increases Heidi's borrowing limit. He sees no reason for any undue concern, since he has the debts of the unemployed alcoholics as collateral.

At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert traders transform these customer loans into DRINKBONDS, ALKIBONDS and PUKEBONDS. These securities are then bundled and traded on international security markets. Naive investors don't really understand that the securities being sold to them as AAA secured bonds are really the debts of unemployed alcoholics.

Nevertheless, the bond prices continuously climb, and the securities soon become the hottest-selling items for some of the nation's leading brokerage houses.

One day, even though the bond prices are still climbing, a risk manager at the original local bank decides that the time has come to demand payment on the debts incurred by the drinkers at Heidi's bar. He so informs Heidi.

Heidi then demands payment from her alcoholic patrons, but being unemployed alcoholics they cannot pay back their drinking debts. Since, Heidi cannot fulfill her loan obligations she is forced into bankruptcy. The bar closes and the eleven employees lose their jobs.

Overnight, DRINKBONDS, ALKIBONDS and PUKEBONDS drop in price by 90%. The collapsed bond asset value destroys the banks liquidity and prevents it from issuing new loans, thus freezing credit and economic activity in the community.

The suppliers of Heidi's bar had granted her generous payment extensions and had invested their firms' pension funds in the various BOND securities. They find they are now faced with having to write off her bad debt and with losing over 90% of the presumed value of the bonds. Her wine supplier also claims bankruptcy, closing the doors on a family business that had endured for three generations, her beer supplier is taken over by a competitor, who immediately closes the local plant and lays off 150 workers.

Fortunately though, the bank, the brokerage houses and their respective executives are saved and bailed out by a multi-billion dollar no-strings attached cash infusion from the Government. The funds required for this bailout are obtained by new taxes levied on employed, middle-class, non-drinkers.

Now, do you understand? 

--Author Unknown 

Work Ethic

Matthew and I were standing just inside a movie theatre, waiting for my friend to join us. A theatre employee (supervisor of some sort, I assumed) opened the door and said to the young man standing outside (pictured above), "When do you want to take your break?"

Matthew and I both gave a double take and shook our heads in wry amusement....

(In case you can't really see in the photo, the kid was drinking an iced coffee, texting, AND smoking a self-rolled cigarette.)

I have to hope that the supervisor was kidding, perhaps in a passive-aggressive attempt at snark, but we really don't think so.

P.S. He was wearing a Webelos cap. (Webelos are those in-between kids transitioning from cub scouts to boy scouts.) Here's somethign I found describing the objective of the Webelo Scouts: "Our Webelos den has been very exciting to watch as the boys change from being squirrely 3rd graders mostly intent on running around and playing to being a patrol that can recognize a goal, the requirements to fulfill the goal, and the ambition to accomplish the goal."

Haircut Heart

Ok, so my brother is visiting from Phoenix, and I always take advantage of seeing him by having him cut my hair (he's really, REALLY good). When we were done, I was vacuuming up the hair from the floor and JUST as I saw this heart just as it was getting sucked into the hose. I opened up the vacuum and sifted through the dust and dirt and hair and it fell back out...

Here it is as it lay before I added it to my collection. Read about how the collection got started here.

Hitler and the Tony Awards

Funny, funny, FUNNY!

HeARTworks Heart

Wow! Really?!

Lost Generation

Thanks for sending me this, Sherry. Loved it!

My Kids