Blogger Blather

The film festival director for the Glassell Gallery has booked me on a local morning show to promote the fest and my movie. I tape the segment on Friday, September 5 and it will air on Saturday, September 6 on Cox4 at 8am, 9am, 11am, and 1pm.

Can someone tape this for me? Please?!

Us Z-listers need to cling to whatever small bit of notoriety we can!

In other news, hobbits have started living in my backyard. Okay, maybe they’re not hobbits — they might just be gnomes. Check out the monster mushroom (courtesy of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Fay) that they’ve been using for shelter.

Long time no blog…

Well, I finally got my hair cut a few days ago. What do you guys think?

Looking back at my “Time for Another Hairstyle” post, I guess it came out somewhere close to the #13, #15, #17 styles.

I wanted bangs, but the hairdresser said she didn’t think the hair would lie correctly. And she’s right. Every time I cut bangs it’s a disaster, but my forehead is getting wrinkly! Is Botox my only other option?

It’s been over three years since my feature film, The Lady from Sockholm, premiered and I’m still able to occasionally milk those puppets for a bit of notoriety.  Here’s the latest screening I’ve secured:

The Alfred C. Glassell Gallery is the finest gallery for contemporary art in Baton Rouge. Throughout the month of September the gallery will be showcasing work by Louisiana filmmakers.  The feature film, The Lady from Sockholm, will be playing at the gallery every Saturday in September at 12:30 p.m.  An opening reception for all the filmmakers will be held on Friday, September 5, 2008 from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.  Glassell Gallery is located at Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette Street, Baton Rouge, LA.

Okay, so who’s going to go to this opening reception with me? Anyone want to strap on a puppet and entertain the crowd?  Tom?

Today has been a gray day all around (and it’s only 11am).  The weather forecast is “mostly cloudy with 80% chance of rain” so that’s probably adding to my whoa-is-me attitude, but it’s hard to be upbeat when:

1) Your GE washing machine that’s only 1 year and 3 months old (of course, that’s 3 months past the warranty) stops working.

2) You open your blinds and see a big orange school bus parked in front of your house.  I guess the renters who moved in across the street have a house member who is a school bus driver.  I have lovely picture windows in the front of my house and now the serene view of my newly landscaped front yard is ruined. Check out the photo to your right for a pic of the monstrosity (as seen from my front door peep hole!).

3) One of your cats (I think it was Sweet Stuff) barfs on a piece of furniture in your bedroom.

I hope your day is going better than mine…

After posting two back-to-back liquor-related blogs I decided that I needed to add a “Booze” category.  But, “Booze” sounded a little harsh, so I went with the much cuter heading of “Drinky poos.”

For those of you who are not blog savvy, you can click on the categories listed to the right or at the top of each post and you’ll see everything that I’ve classified in that category.

In other non-related, but equally non-riveting news, I just made some pirate-themed bottle cap magnets to celebrate the upcoming national holiday “Talk Like a Pirate Day.”   I know the pic is a little out of focus, so sorry.  I’m too lazy to take more so you’ll just have to deal with it, matey.

A couple of weeks ago when I was in Houston visiting Elizabeth, we had a discussion about Liquor Stores and how they were a recession-proof business.  People will cut back on luxuries (and essentials) when they are in a financial crunch, but don’t mess with their cocktails.

The fact that booze is big business (especially when people need to drown their financial sorrows) was evident yesterday when I got my weekly mailer from Albertson’s grocery store.  The circular was 12 pages, and 4 1/2 pages (that’s over 1/3 of it) advertised liquor specials.

The funniest part is that they tried to be topical and tie all the booze into the upcoming Summer Olympic Games by using headings like “Olympic Savings” and “Go for the Gold Savings.” If they really wanted to tie it all in, they should have used “Go for the Cuervo Gold” — cause really, to make synchronized swimming and water polo interesting you do need a few shots for tequila.

My oldest sister, Gail, celebrated her birthday on July 31 and she had absolutely NOTHING on her wish list.  It must be nice to not need a thing.  I, on the other hand, have no problem rattling off a number of items (at all price ranges) that I’d like to have.

Since booze is always a good gift, I decided to get her a few bottles of wine.  As they say, presentation is everything, so I bought a square wicker basket to lay the bottles in and then wrapped each in tissue paper.

A handmade card topped off the present.  Looks pretty good if I do say so…