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Category Archives: Facebook Notes
Prose Ode to Groupon (in the Wake of Miraculous Half-Day Car Detail): “Food Stamps for the Upper Class”
I owe the subtitle of this blog to a fascinating, witty Facebook friend in Austin, TX with whom I correspond regularly about topics ranging from literature to photography to travel. I had a happy if warm day in my apartment … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook Notes, Fashion, Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, Uncategorized
Tagged botox, dermal fillers, dysport, edhat of santa barbara, groupon, inn and petersen's, lola, montecito aesthetics institute, PCPA Theaterfest, perlane, saab detail, santa barbara auto detail, solvang, steve's patio cafe, trader joe's, V2 cigs
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Happy Saturday! Amy Chua (aka Tiger Mom) at 3PM at UCSB Arts and Lectures: Going with Open Mind
J and I are going to hear Yale Law professor Amy Chua discuss her bestseller, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. I have blogged about Tiger Mom before, once at some length from the perspective of daughter … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook Notes, Family, Fashion, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Relationships, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged amy chua, battle hymn of tiger mother, eating disorders, hitchhiking, los angeles, parenting, permissiveness, psychology, santa barbara, tiger mom, ucsb, ucsb arts and lectures series, winnicott, yale law
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Well-Done Film about Marriage, Friendship, Infidelity: Just Between Friends (1986, Danson, Lahti, Waterston, Moore)
I am at my boyfriend’s parents gorgeous home during a pit-stop between swim lesson and guitar lesson and wanted to post something but knee deep in theory and also negotiations about candy, so I thought this would be an appropriate … Continue reading
“Ponzi is not a Jewish Name!”: Review of Abe Foxman’s “Jews and Money, Story of a Stereotype”
Note: This appeared on Gregg Hilton’s FB page. As you know, I owe half my FB friends to him directly, or indirectly, and while I rarely venture into political or historical waters, I read this book in March and learned … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook Notes, Politics, UCSB, Yale
Tagged 13 bankers, aaron feuerstein, abe foxman anti-semitism, bigotry, chapter 11, goldman sachs, inside job, jews and money, judaism, michael o'connell, new testament literature, racism, simon johnson, stereotypes, ucsb, wall street, yale
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“As Long as We Keep Talking, We Stay Alive”: Michael Keaton’s Platonic Love Affair with Helena Bonham Carter in “Live from Baghdad” (HBO)
I remember watching this movie repeatedly, about ten times over a two year period, from 2003 to 2005 on my VCR in the horrid, truck route Lebanon apartment about which I have written many times in my FB notes. It … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Facebook Notes, Family, Film, Health & Beauty, Literature, Relationships, School, St. Augustine, Television, UCSB, Yale
Tagged cnn, depression, friendship, Helena Bonham Carter, isolation, katherine philips, laundry, live from baghdad, michael keaton, nypd blue, poetry, rescue me, swimming, terror
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Sweet, Funny Inconsequential Movie from 1984: Gotcha, The Last Seduction Meditation re Gender Roles, Woody Allen’s Alice and Blythe Danner
Just a silly shortish note, inspired when I went to Soho, a club in Santa Barbara, for a Christmas rock-and-roll show, at which a friend of my friend’s was singing. J had work to do and never made it and … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Facebook Notes, Fashion, Film, Lifestyle, School, St. Augustine, Television, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged alice, anthony edwards, bill pullman, blythe danner, family ties, gary goldberg, gotcha, gwyneth paltrow, kevin james, linda fiorientino, peter berg, shana goldberg, the king of queens, woody allen
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Favorite Line From Chorus Line’s “Let Me Dance for You”: “I’m a Dancer, That’s Who I Am, What I Do” (Reflections on Writing and Debate) [Old FB Note]
NOTE: Written December 7, 2010, Starbucks 66th and 3rd, Manhattan. All pre-blog of course. ——- I was just chatting with someone about writing. I can write 6 or more hours a day, I mean, not serious academic writing. Not anymore, … Continue reading
Today , November 22, is George Eliot’s (Mary Ann Evans) Birthday. 1819. Most Important Figure in Life for Five Years [Old FB Note]
This was a FB note written on November 23rd, the day after GE’s birthday: 1819-1880. I have a very flexible relationship with my ATM/debit card. This was a day when I had no means of getting cash, but a friend … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Facebook Notes, Family, Health & Beauty, Literature, Philosophy, St. Augustine, Television, Travel, UCSB, Yale
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Back in LA, Heading to SB with 6 Philosophy Lectures to Blog About, Also Follow-Up Emails to New Contacts from APA!
It will be nice to see J, and my new computer, later today when I arrive in SB. I have two schlepper errands for Dad and now that leg is messed up, I have an excuse for a pigsty of … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook Notes, Family, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Lingerie, Literature, Philosophy, Uncategorized
Tagged aesthetics, apa, aristotle, beauty and morality in kant, consignment stores, ethics, friendship, hegel, new computer, nietzsche, richard eldridge, stanley cavell, the cottage in pacific palisades, wittgenstein
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Love and Other Drugs: The Tragedy of Parkinson’s, The Horniness of Men, the Power of Love, The Greed of Pharmaceutical Co’s
WARNING: This is a SPOILER review. I analyze the entire movie, give away plot and critique the ending. I DO recommend the film, but it is much too long, drags after the midway point, and is better on the comedic … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Facebook Notes, Film, Relationships
Tagged anne hathaway, erectile dysfunction drugs, jake gyllenhall, jill clayburgh, oliver platt, parkinson's, relationships
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