For what it's worth, I believe that the best Stan Lee cameo ever was in Mallrats. :-) For those that are wondering why newer films are not included in the montage, fret not — the creator of the compilation plans on updating it with Mr. Lee's cameos in Iron Man 2, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger. Via Laughing Squid....
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I have a confession to make. Before I became a mother, I used to look down on SAHMs with housekeepers and/or nannies. "You stay at home all day," I thought to myself. "Can't you clean when the baby's sleeping? And why would you need help raising a kid?" This, like many other pre-conceived notions of motherhood, was thrown out the window as soon as I became a mother myself. Because being a SAHM is the hardest job I've ever had. Because I really don't know how moms with 2+ young kids do it (single moms have my utmost respect). Because, when you think about it, the nuclear family living separately in a household by itself is a fairly new concept, and for most...
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Amanda Peyton, the creator of geo-blogging site MessageParty, has designed a map of internet services based on Manhattan and its neighborhoods: The reasoning behind each placement is as follows: Twitter + Wall Street: Frenetic, Jumbled, Terse, but incredibly powerful Foursquare + East Village: The roots of the service were in the EV and the best foursquare tips are still found here; bar-hopping, hypersocial, where-you-at mentality Tumblr + West Village and Meatpacking: Coolness to a fault Blog + Gramercy: I currently live in this neighborhood, so it was most fitting to place it there Email + Chelsea and Times Square: Large, unmanageable, swelling, but ultimately the pulse of everything Bnter + West Chelsea + Hell’s Kitchen: West Chelsea is the biggest up-and-comer...
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This one is for my photographer friends. Created by Mashable in conjunction with Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom®, it sure makes me nostalgic about the cameras of my past. (Like the Kodak DX3600, which was the first digital camera I ever owned. It was HUGE and boasted a paltry 2.3 megapixels, but I was the first of my friends to own a digital camera and for that, I was proud.) Enjoy! ...
Continue readingLast Sunday, J's uncle passed away. I was not particularly close to him. I have never had conversations longer than a couple of minutes with him due to our language barrier. But he always had a big, genuine smile on his face whenever I greeted him. I could tell that he was proud of J on our wedding day, and that he liked and respected me as a person (the feelings were mutual). Isn't that the best that you can hope for with a person you don't see often, with whom you can barely communicate? With his wake and funeral taking place this weekend, blogging will undoubtedly be light. Mother's Day will be subdued as well. J and I will take Claire to my parent's...
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