I can't decide....

whether I love or hate this idea. I mean a parking lot with spaces that are wider and easier to park in with better security sounds appealing (as I am unabashedly an old-lady driver with notoriously poor parallel parking abilities), but the feminist side of me is screaming that this is gender profiling at its worst. "Different sense of distance", my arse.
From the BBC:"A shopping centre in China's Hebei province has built a car park with wider spaces that it says is designed especially to suit women drivers. The women-only car park in Shijiazhuang city is also painted in pink and light purple to appeal to female tastes. Official Wang Zheng told AFP news agency the car park was meant to cater to women's "strong sense of colour and different sense of distance". The parking bays are one metre (3ft) wider than normal spaces, he said.
The Wanxiang-Tiancheng shopping centre had also "installed signs and security monitoring equipment that corresponded more to women's needs", he said. The Global Times website says female parking attendants have been trained to help guide women drivers into their parking spaces. The bays also have extra lighting.

The Creep Factor is worse than I thought...

I was taking down some of the pictures on my walls cause they are like falling down and I am no longer a teenage girl I thought, gee, I should probably remove these pictures from when lotr first came out from my walls. BAD IDEA. VERY BAD IDEA. I have now discovered why the Baby Cat sits on the dresser at the head of my bed and stares up at the wall. ITS CAUSE THERE IS A FREAKING HOLE IN MY WALL!!!! Its like big enough for a squirrel or something to come out of. Anyways, completely freaked out by this and am not sure how I will survive three more nights when I swear the animals are coming to get me. shudder.

Why I Can't Hate Matt Bellamy Despite His Shitty New Album...

Muse is awesome

More Cowbell!

So sick and yet so awesome

And it even includes JF as a special bonus!

Hey look, a wish! And you don't even have to leave the house!

Delta Spirit

Obligatory Killers Christmas Video

Somebody really needs to make one of these into a movie

Click here for the awesome

Casting ideas?

100% Vindicated

go to number 3. ha HA! http://jezebel.com/5430374/and-now-a-totally-spoiler-free-review-of-avatar/gallery/ and now i am going back to staring at the picture in number three....dreamy....

Where is the rum?

So I recently discovered the Alliance Francaise de Washington (which seems v.v. interesting and sponsored the book event I went to recently at the National Museum of Women in the Arts). Anyways, they appear to be throwing a rum-tasting event, which I hope will be led by a pirate. Seems like the perfect culinary event for Esmee.

We're down to the wire

Alright, it is almost christmas and almost esmee's b-day and while i have some ideas for presents, i have not really accomplished much on the shopping front. who is getting a cardigan for la mere? do you guys have gifts for her yet? and le pere? i was thinking of getting him the book the looming tower about 9/11. he probably already read it but doesn't remember so it might be good for him. or maybe we could get him some sort of history channel/pbs series on dvd for him to watch on his huge tv. also i really need to know what you guys are wishing for. i thought of one present i would like. please don't make fun of me as i know it is very cheesy -- The french women for all seasons engagement calendar. i could use a little inspiration to be fabulous. and the jcrew pjs. maybe a pair of slippers? i also know that each of you are wishing for a dvd this christmas but we need to convo to make sure the other one hasn't got it already.

RH trailer!

So many movies to get excited about that are based on some of my favorite childhood reading (Sherlock Homes, Edith Hamilton/Bulfinch's Greek Mythology, etc) and now Robin Hood!. Must check out the new teaser trailer. It looks pretty awesome what with RC's slow-mo war whoop and all. Not exactly sure WTF is going on (is that the battle of Hastings? some event in the 100 yrs war? why do they appear to be fighting over the White Cliffs of Dover?) but it looks good. (And RC looks good. like almost back to LA confidential good. props to what's his face for getting him in shape for the role) And CB plays Maid Marian who as you know has been my favorite character ever since I got the medieval castle lego set for Christmas that year and always wanted my lego girl to be MM. ps. charles, it appears that MS is going to be in everything now (as you have obviously pointed out to me many times in the past), but maybe you should cast him in your thing??

Storm of the Century

Apparently DC is in for some baaad weather today. "Powerful, historic snowstorm pasting metro region. Crippling accumulations of 16-24"+ likely" says the Post. Grrrr. planned to go christmas shopping today.

I can't wait to see you guys!!!

I seriously cannot wait to come home to see you two. La mere and le pere...ehhh not so much. but i'm gonna need to go to dunkies a bunch and just chill with the two of you. really need some downtime considering how crazy things have been at work. (this post has been brought to you by a picture of JR...here's hoping he wants to do our thing. hee hee, get it? get it?)

Congrats Charles!

Look out Canada! This is very exciting!

Also this...

A stuffed animal???

I seriously laughed out loud at this...

I love the Jezebel Girls

James Franco Brings Homoeroticism To General Hospital

Movies I just don't understand #2

My roomies and I went to go see Brothers today (TM so amazingly scary) and got this as a preview. Just don't understand.

Because we all love MK

ps why is BJ N a hobbit?

Coolest Gift Ever?

The Boy got me this pink Ukulele for my birthday! I'm so excited! Can't wait to see you guys! Aah, too many exclamation points!

we might just have to go see this

just to see his pretty pretty face. also, its getting pretty good reviews...in the meantime, enjoy this action shot.

Can't Beat The Classics

So tonight I watched Empire Records AND Can't Hardly Wait with my friends. The best part about the night was the fact that Deb and I could basically quote both movies from start to finish. The boys were slightly frightened. Oh well. Next up, Wonder Boys.

Movies I just don't understand.

Put the Sorcerer's Apprentice at the top of the list....wait for the hat. just wait for it.

this is the funniest thing i have ever read

I agreed with almost all of these. its so hysterical. please read:

http://yasminspired.tumblr.com/post/169220882

Here you go Charles

Be ahead of the trend

I swear he will soon be all over the place...mark my words

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Jf2mcSplw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwrOTueaDWA&feature=related

(PS E - while we are home you really gotta teach D and me how to embed videos. in fact, if you can embed these ones for me that would be great!)

In which LG explains her new tour...

I think we truly must be related. I mean she appears to combine Esmee's interest in performance art with my obsession with evolution and the apocalypse.

"It's part pop show, part performance art, part fashion installation. It came about because as an artist, as a writer, as a woman, I feel I've evolved so much.

My evolution is from the beginning of time, so I start as a cell [she shows me a costume like a geodesic dome], and then I become a vertebrate, and then I become a full animal, and there's the birth of the economy, and trade and war, and then it's the Apocalypse. Because we as a society are taught politically and religiously that the Apocalypse is coming, it's on its way. But what I'm saying with my show is, ‘We're there right now: this is the Apocalypse.' The fact that we're surrounded by cement and we've already killed everything means the Apocalypse has happened.

So the idea for me is to give a sense of repose and solace to my fans, that we're here, we did it already, and now it's about accepting where we are and looking more joyfully into the future. And then the Apocalypse is over and the stage becomes very minimal and all that's left is me with a piano, in the middle of the destruction."

Um, yeah...

I Don't Know What You're Talking About But It Sounds Illegal

Loved it, loved it, loved it.

"Excuse me? Am I being flirted with by a psychotic rat?"

It's That Time of Year Again: Christmas With The Killers!