Tag: random musings
member name: Racheline Maltese
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December 18, 2006 11:34 AM EST --
Although I'm going to screenings of a whole bunch of stuff over the next week (so look out for lots of reviews of things including Dreamgirls, Notes on a Scandal and Pan's Labrynth), It's The . . .
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January 05, 2007 01:12 PM EST --
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- In a case fraught with ethical questions, the parents of a severely mentally and physically disabled child have stunted her growth to keep their little "pillow angel" . . .
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March 25, 2007 04:07 PM EDT --
Chances are most things about me are weird. Coming up with six -- whether it's because I'm hard pressed to limit myself to that number or because I forget how truly weird some stuff about . . .
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March 31, 2007 11:19 AM EDT --
Most days, and by this I don’t even mean weekdays – as a creative professional I don’t really have weekends like other people – I usually get up around 9 (to the sound of cats pounding . . .
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August 29, 2007 05:45 PM EDT --
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/08/21/reading.ap/index.html
Interesting piece on CNN that notes the typical American only reads four books a year. It's more if you're female, older or . . .
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December 20, 2006 02:37 PM EST --
Anheuser-Busch introducing gluten-free beer!
http://community.livejournal.com/celiac/455256.html
I don't even really like beer, but it's great for gluten-related diseases to be recognized . . .
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November 11, 2006 11:15 AM EST --
Nice quickie piece in the New York Times today on Sydney, Australia where I spent a month in 2005. Makes me want to go back (not that I don't want to constantly).
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/travel/12hours.html . . .
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January 05, 2007 01:24 PM EST --
Oh how I love Australia!
SYDNEY, Jan 4 (Reuters Life!) - An Australian bank has apologized for issuing a credit card to a cat after its owner decided to test the bank's identity security system. . . .
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January 28, 2007 10:23 PM EST --
How, you might ask, can a bridge be an entertainment favorite? For New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge the answers are many and include the historical information displays on the pedestrian walkway, . . .
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February 01, 2007 10:44 AM EST --
A brief news item I would be remiss in not reporting. The seventh and final installment of J. K. Rowlings Harry Potter series will be released . . .
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March 23, 2007 12:54 PM EDT --
Sometimes, living an ordinary life means living an extraordinary one. This is, I think, particularly relevant to the situation of John and Elizabeth Edwards, his campaign for the presidency and public . . .
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December 02, 2006 12:57 AM EST --
As most of the Internet has heard by now, Daniel Craig, the latest actor to take up the role of James Bond, is, in a story reported by World Entertainment News Network, advocating that the Bond franchised . . .
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November 24, 2007 01:58 PM EST --
/cranky on
My name is Racheline.
It is pronounced Ra-shell-lean.
My name is not Rachel. Please do not take it upon yourself to call me that. Nothing in my name sounds like Rachel. . . .
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January 13, 2007 01:15 PM EST --
Perfume is one of those films I desperately wanted to work, but ultimately, no matter how I tried to fit its pieces together in my head could not make a coherent peace with.
Perfume is the story of a . . .
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March 19, 2007 10:30 AM EDT --
While there are many obvious secrets to being a good houseguest, such as picking up after yourself, there are also many less obvious tricks that can make your visit more pleasant for everyone. Please also . . .
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March 24, 2007 11:29 AM EDT --
In the last few years skepticism has been rising as regards what also seems to be an increasingly common practice of young kids being prescribed psychiatric medications. The horrific death of Rebecca . . .
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April 01, 2007 02:23 AM EDT --
I've been tagged twice more now, although I'm only doing one batch here. As usual, not tagging anyone else, because I know this is driving people nuts. Consider yourself tagged if you . . .
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April 16, 2007 11:03 AM EDT --
I have a lot of pet peeves. I’m just ornery that way. One of them is about the misuse and/or overuse of certain words and phrases.
I’ve got a lot of these, and you’re going . . .
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April 24, 2007 10:35 AM EDT --
So another study came out yesterday on pay gaps between men and women. This one, unlike many others, look at salaries in the first year and then ensuing decade after college – which to a given . . .
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April 25, 2007 11:21 AM EDT --
As many of you no doubt know by now, scientists have discovered the most earth-like planet yet in the constellation Libra. Large, and probably rocky, it has temperatures similar to that of earth . . .
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