scary-guy-1.jpg

I think the title says it all, really. This is a truly scary guy.

do you see what i see?

it was a mixed bag of happy and sad last week when the
e-n-t-i-r-e fischer family came to visit.

happy: the e-n-t-i-r-e fischer fam came to visit.

sad: grandpa ted passed away... so the weekend was full of funeral business.



more happy: i had a full dose of fischer-ness. went to lunch with jamie {she thinks i was ONLY excited about seeing carrie.... silly.}, mat and mel, topher, carrie and duben, and katie. and when we were done? back to grandpa ted's house to see the parents... and like 907534457 other members of the fam.

more sad: it didn't get to see them nearly as much as i'd like. i GUESS they had other, more important and timely, things to do that weekend. but geesh...

The Guild BTS Specials

There are two new Guild specials up on MSN Video.

First one is Meet the Characters where the cast talks about their character and how they interact with the other characters. http://bit.ly/xEiGZ

Second one is Meet the Extras and that's the one I shot, produced and edited. I talk with several of the extras during the four day shoot for episodes 9, 10, 11 and 12. http://bit.ly/PdBSR

A little taste as to what will be on the DVD in May.

重機台灣橋樑之旅

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挺台灣的店：台北縣汐止市 韓記麵食

韓記麵食是玉山山友台灣優先所開的美食店，許多山友前往享用後，紛紛來信要版主魚夫也去一趟，嘉義辣媽還特別寄付兩瓶海尼根啤酒當誘餌，於是魚夫真的去了一趟，用手機直播了一回，由於當地的通訊品質不佳，沒有拍好，不久，便再度前來錄影，完成介紹韓記美食的任務。(按播放器的HQ可以看高畫質)



台北縣汐止市湖前街55號
營業時間
上午11:30~下午2:00
下午5:30~晚上20:30

three's company.

the long awaited day has arrived. jen is moving in. thank heavens. the dvd collection just grew exponentially. the san diego charger flare just doubled. the amount of hollywood gossip on the coffee table just multiplied. the cans of diet coke are back for an encore. the house just gained a "token male" - convenient for difficult household duties. and the world just became a better place.

oh, we are a force to be reckoned with. and it is going to be such great fun.

who what where when why wednesday.

q:

what is your biggest fear?

a:

that someday, long after i am married, there will come a day that i will run out of things to talk about.

{like the scene in forrest gump when he runs, runs, runs across the united states... and then, poof! he just quits.}

i can hear the eyeballs rolling now... aubry. running out of things to say. yeah, right. but really, i'm afraid.

and, frogs. i am very afraid of frogs.

Rockabilly True Love Tattoo Taken Design

Rockabilly True Love Tattoo Taken Design

Getting No Sleep

Well last night I went to bed around 1am, well that is when I actually got into bed, but our neighbor dog was barking and for some reason he loves to bark right outside our bedroom window. He/she is some sort of pitbull mix so the bark is loud. The barking started about Midnight and continued non-stop until 4:30am when I finally was able to fall asleep.

As those of you who know me I am a huge animal lover but around 2:30am I was ready to kill that dog, or at least turn the hose on it. This dog barked constantly, I'm not kidding.. non-stop for hours by the time 4am came around the dog was losing it's bark.

We have a fan in our bedroom and I turned it on full blast to drown out the bark but that kind of worked and I was finally about to dose off.. I don't know when he stopped but when I got up at 7:30am he wasn't barking.

I don't blame the dog, these neighbors are horrible to it. They use to have two dogs and then they had puppies. But now they seem to have just this one dog now. They never take it out for walks or give it any kind of attention and when it's raining you can hear it whimpering in the backyard and it breaks your heart. This dog barks all the time and had a barking spree a few months back but only lasted a few hours.. this time it over over 3 1/2 hours. Though I know it's not the dogs fault all my rage last night was toward this poor puppy.

Love Tattoo Art Tattoo

Love Tattoo Art Tattoo design

10,000 Downloads

Knights of the Guild podcast which I started three months ago has just hit 10,000 downloads. It's amazing on how many people listen and continue to listen to our podcast. We actually have fans which is so weird and what is even weirder is they can't wait to meet us down in San Diego for Comic Con this year.

I just want to thank all those who listen and enjoy Knights of the Guild.. Jenni (my co-host) and I are just fans who happen to work on the second season of The Guild and want to share our experience with other fans.

The Guild fan community is so wonderful.. ::cheers:: here's to many more podcasts and downloads.

Straightedge Toast

This guy maybe has my favorite bad tattoos of all time. Ever. Period.
Possibly because I have a real soft spot for straight edge tattoos and punk/hc tattoos, possibly because they are just hilarious.




Description from the horse's mouth below:

All my friends have toast tattoos, because when you're poor and dumpster for your food bread is always readily available - it's this thing that kinda unifies us at this point in our lives. The Earth Crisis theme came about when some silly hardline XVX kids were staying at this punk house and talking about how belittling a band with serious issues is a bad thing, and how EC was cool and really helped push ideas into hardcore, and then they started insulting the people who lived at that house by degrading them and saying they had bad views, even making someone get near the verge of crying because she ate sparingly fish.

I realized that the lyrics for the beginning of Firestorm worked really well with toast (the original lyrics for those who don't know are "Street by street/block by block/taking it all back", referring to cleansing a neighborhood of drug dealers.) I went and got the tattoo done in an hour, showed them, and started drinking and eating cheese for the rest of the night (even though I was vegan at the time.) They stopped talking to me, and left shortly after.

I'm going to be getting a tattoo really soon that is based off of the anarchist atheist saying "No Gods, No Masters", but its gonna say "Dogs, No Masters" and have a kennel on fire and someone holding a leash with his brains blown out, and upside down crosses made of milk bones. I didn't think up that saying, though

home.

i'm coming home!

{view at sundown... from the back porch. }

last year, i didn't make it home ONE SINGLE TIME between christmases. that meant:

one whole year without seeing the babies...
one whole year without shopping at loehmann's....
one whole year without fashion valley and bloomingdale's....
one whole year without the delish greasy mexican food....
and one whole year without seeing my family.

{not necessarily in that order...}

i'll have a full agenda. people to visit. cupcakes to taste. clothes to buy. photos to take. hills to run. babies to kiss.

... and lucky me, i'll have andi by my side!

{photo courtesy of my big (super amazing talented better-photographer-than-you) brother, matt. freaking genius, i tell you.}

台南五嬸海產

一群好友，本來是要去台南鹿耳門鎮門宮吃盤蚵仔煎而已，結果越走越遠，跑到七股的三股去找五嬸煮新鮮海產吃，不但做直播，也錄影了下來，分享出來，有空來台南坐坐。（按播放器的HQ，可以看高畫質）

台灣昆蟲-膜翅目(蜂、蟻)

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兩位漫畫家的巧遇:曾惠泉遇見魚夫

曾惠泉是位漫畫家，自立報系還存在時，曾為自立的漫畫專欄作家，表現傑出，而魚夫亦曾任職該該系，近來魚夫因假日旅遊，發現曾惠泉在內灣開店展漫畫，於是做了一段小訪問和大家分享：(按播放器的HQ，可高畫質觀賞）

The Next Day

Today Harry and I planned on driving around and looking about over 20 homes in the Van Nuys and Pasadena area. It's funny how one street can be beautiful and quiet and then the next street over is run down and old looking. We found about seven homes to look at in Van Nuys/Lake Balboa. We even found another really nice neighborhood over my the Van Nuys airport.. very excited about that because the houses were nice looking and it seems there were several in our price range.

Our trip to Pasadena wasn't so great. We had five homes to look at there and the first one was okay on an okay street. The part of Pasadena we were looking at is very old and the houses are very old. Most of the streets and houses were very "lived" in and I felt comfortable driving down some of them. So needless to say our experience in Pasadena, at least the area that we could afford was not a good one. We did find one home actually on Kenneth Way that was nice looking and the area looked okay but it was right next to the freeway.

So we emailed our Realtor Mary our finding and hopefully will be able to look at some of those house that we liked from the outside. And that ends day two of our house hunting. We were excited to find the two nice areas of Van Nuys and that gives up hope that we might be able to actually find a home that is nice looking and in a nice area.. keep your fingers crossed.

primul sertar

in primul sertar gasesti scarba mucegai frunze moi si frunze uscate gandaci morti rugina bateria de la baie picura buruieni borduri prea mari copii prea galagiosi prea multe lucruri prea putine dulapuri vase nespalate haine nespalate haine pe care nu apuc niciodata sa le port dar cumpar mereu altele noi prea multe filme prea multa muzica prea multe carti, cutii de acuarele si acrilice si pasteluri si panze neincepute oameni faini cu care nu mai am ocazia sa vorbesc pentru ca sunt departe "get to know you're parents, you never know when they might be gone forever" - haven't ticked this one either....
nopti pline de miros frumos pe care nu stiu cum sa le pastrez, atatea ganduri pe care nu stiu sa le pun in cuvinte, parul de pe picioare, my bright future, masele cariate, ambalaje vechi de ciocolata, frustrari, vinovatie, celulita...

inchizi sertatul si citesti eticheta - 5 cm de scoci de hartie scris cu markerul permanent : " Lucruri care ma apasa, ma depasesc, in legatura cu care as putea sa fac ceva dar n-am chef, nu stiu, nu pot, nu vreau..."

Opera Atelier: The Coronation Of Poppea

Additional photos from Opera Atelier's production of Claudio Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea playing at The Elgin Theatre.

Soprano Peggy Kriha Dye is terrific as the sensual, scheming Poppea. Previously she was nominated for a Dora Award for her role in Opera Atelier's Idomeneo.

Bass Baritone Olivier Laquerre plays Ottone, in love with Poppea but driven to attempt her murder by the jealous Empress Ottavia.

The interplay between Michael Maniaci's Nero and Poppea is laced with hot sensual moments, but also dark shadings and foreboding. Based on the true infamous story of the Roman courtesan, Nero in fact ended up brutually murdering Poppea just four years after her ascencion to the highest position of Empress depicted in this opera.

Lighting Designer Kevin Fraser bathes the entire production in heavily gelled lighting that mimics a Renaissance painting. It's almost as if the opera is being performed by candle light. While beautiful to the eye, photographically this is a bit of a torture test for the camera's white balance as even a custom white balance reading off white or grey elements of the set fails to completely compensate for the heavy warming effect. It's always a bit of an adventure shooting Opera Atelier.

One of the reasons I often recomend Opera Atelier to visitors interested in attending opera for the first time is the variety of arts disciplines in each production. In addition to the operatic performance, you have the always excellent Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra providing the orchestral and choral element, and productions are enhanced by the artists of the Atelier Ballet lending a choreographic interpretation to the piece.

The Coronation Of Poppea plays at The Elgin Theatre April 25, 26, 28, 29, May 1 & 2.

Photographed with the Olympus E30 with Digital Zuiko 50-200mm 2.8 lens

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House Hunting : It Begins...

Well today we officially started our house hunting. We saw three houses with our Realtor Mary.

The first one was in Glendale, though the neighborhood was quiet, the area was a bit "lived" in and the house needed quite a bit of work, which would have been fine if the neighborhood was a bit nicer.

House number two was in Burbank and the neighborhood was much better, we actually really liked the place. The outside of the house needed a little work but the houses on both sides were so nice and you could tell their owners really took care of it. Well we went inside and I couldn't believe it. The layout was nice.. but you walk into the kitchen and there was so much water damage that the hardwood floor was bulking and breaking.. Mary warned me not to fall through the floor. We continued to walk through the house and though the set up was nice and the rooms were big there were holes in the ceiling, walls and floors. It was banked owned and they were asking $390,000 for it.. $390 for this place.. it was a total tear down and rebuild.

House number three was in Valley Glen/North Hollywood. This was our first house with actual
people living in it. It's very strange walking around a persons house while they are watching you. The house was nice on the outside and looked great on the inside. The neighborhood was okay to good but the only issue with this house it was a short sale. A short sale is a very complicated process where the bank has to agree upon the offer and price of the house. It can take months and the price can vary from what the realtor started it at... since this house was already at our maximum amount we decided to not even try.

So we didn't find our dream house, but we learned alot about what we want and what we absolutely don't want. I was a little discouraged as the market may be a bit soft now and a buyers market and we are willing to spend $400,000 but it's still not enough to get a decent house in a decent area.

After we did the three houses with Mary we decided to expand our number of cities that we were going to look in. We expanded our listing to include Van Nuys as there are some nice areas in Van Nuys.. we found about eight homes and printed out directions to each one and headed back out to look at the outside and neighborhood of these houses, if we found one that we liked we would let our Realtor know and she could schedule a viewing of the inside. So we drove around for about two hours and viewed many houses... one surprise was an area of Van Nuys called Lake Balboa. Many of the streets were tree lined and in really nice shape. There were a few houses in this area and it seemed the price was more in our range. So we sent three of these listings to our Realtor and hopefully will be able to take a look at the inside of this place next week.

All in all it was a very eye opening experience. Buying a house is suppose to be a fun and rewarding experience but so far it's frustrating, stressful and exhausting... and this is only the beginning. But in the end Harry and I will own our very own house.. and that is exciting.

新竹飛龍肉圓

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Up Early

Well I got up at 6am this morning, I couldn't really sleep. I'm really excited to go out house hunting today. The past week I have been looking online for houses as well as having our Realtor send us listings and it's been some what discouraging. We really wanted to live in Burbank above Glen Oaks as we really liked the neighborhood. And even though home prices have come down they are still way over priced in SoCal. We can find plenty of listings in Van Nuys and North Hollywood but most of the areas we find houses in our price range are in a more "lived in" area. Some of the houses are gorgeous but because of the area we won't consider them.

Pasadena seems to have more houses in our price range and the lots of alot larger but the houses our 80 to 100+ years old. I know this being our first house, we will not get our "Dream" house but I would like something half way decent. I just have to keep telling myself that we need to find a great neighborhood and an okay house because we can always fix up the house.. fixing the neighborhood is a bit harder...

Well we are heading out in a few hours.. I'll let you all know how that goes.

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Hummingbird Spring with Surprise Ending from Mark McKnight on Vimeo.
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House Hunting

Today we got our final line up of the houses we are going to see tomorrow. This will be our first outing with our Realtor. She plans on showing us three houses tomorrow. The three that we are seeing were in our possibility list. Even if we don't like any of them it will be nice to actually see what's out there in our price range and get a better idea of what we can expect. I'll post more once we have gone out with Mary.

Quiet Day At Work

Today was a quiet day at work, the EP went up north and several of the editors worked until the wee hours the previous night so they came in later in the day. I thought this was going to be the calm before the storm but he storm never came.

One highlights of the day was having lunch with my buddies/co-workers Will and Ben. We went out to Islands and had a really nice lunch. It's always great to hang out with co-worker outside of work. Both of these guys are friends who I happen to work with. We consistently joke with each other which is great because you don't always have that kind of connection with co-workers, but with these two it was instantly there.

Later in the day Will got some great news.. he got a call back for a viral web commercial that he had audition for the previous day. He said he felt good about it and did his best. They obviously agreed with him and asked him to come back on Monday.. Congrats and Good Luck Will.

Craetive Star Tattoo Permanent Design

Craetive Star Tattoo Permanent Design

Artistic Girl Tattoo Flower Design in Body

Artistic Girl Tattoo Flower Design in Body

new favorite shop.

apt. 202.

ninth and ninth district.

quite possibly the sweetest street corner in all the state.

it's a perfect mix of pretty and posh. and fancy and fun.

{robin: consider this "research" for you next visit. i promise, i am in NO WAY having fun when i visit these places. purely research.

... but we MUST go to children's hour next door. MUST.}

photowalk v 2.0

wednesday at wheeler farm. it was a bust. too bright outside. too many small children to dodge.

but, these are a few of my favorite things.

mmm... especially loving frank. loved that one. LOVED it.

挺台灣的店:台南阿源炒鱔魚

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Toronto Alternative Arts And Fashion Week

In addition to Toronto's two regular Fashion Weeks, Winter collections in March and Spring Collections in October, once a year we also have Alternative Fashion Week which takes a slightly more eclectic look at fashion, design, art, photography, and live performance.

Alternative Fashion Week acts as a showcase for younger, less established designers, but also casts a wider net delving into elements of design, art, and performance. There are even live bands in between shows.

Taking place at the Distillery District for the rest of this week, it's sort of a half sized version of the regular Fashion Week. Half the crowd (a good thing), half the space (less of a good thing), half the lighting (definitely not a good thing) and the shows are about half the length of it's bigger sister.

One thing that never changes with fashion ... every show is at least half an hour late in starting.
Alternative Fashion Week compensates for the smaller individual collections by grouping three and four designers into each show segment, and often there are performers interspersed with the fashion element. Here an aerialist performs between designers.

All this is not to denigrate the event. The clothes are fresh and often experimental, the atmosphere within the cozy confines of the Fermenting Cellar harkens back to past versions of Toronto Fashion Week when it was held at the Liberty Grand, and there is a nice relaxed energy to the evening. I found myself enjoying shooting this event.

One thing I noticed was that the models better represented the city I live in with different ethnicities and skin colours represented, even a few plus-sized models seamlessly blended walking the runway with the waifs in the shows I saw on Wed.

Toronto Alternative Arts And Fashion Week continues at The Fermenting Cellar, Distillery District tonight and tomorrow evening starting at 6:00 PM each day. Showcasing 200 innovative designers, visual artists, musicians and performers from across Canada, admission is just $20 for the night. There is a lounge area and cash bar to relax in between shows.

All photos above were taken with the Olympus E30 at ISO's from 1600 to 400, with Digital Zuiko 50-200mm lens, single focus AF, IS off, noise filter to low.

Comparing these directly to the photos I shot at LG Fashion Week just a month ago on the E3, it's obvious that the E30 had much better ability to hold highlights, and the files are much, much less prone to banding in post.

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Art Girl Tattoo Star Gun Design in Hand

Art Girl Tattoo Star Gun Design in Hand

Popular Girl Tattoo Picture

Popular Girl Tattoo Picture

KOTG Microcast #4

For Microcast #4 Jenni and I discuss Amazon officially announcing the release of Season One and Season Two of The Guild on DVD. We also discuss what Extras will be on the Second Season DVD.

Thanks,

Kenny & Jenni

Pre-Order The Guild Season One at Amazon.com

Pre-Order The Guild Season Two at Amazon.com

you know you belong in the city, when...

you're out to lunch with co-workers and you recognize an 801-266-... number on your phone and you proclaim, "nordstrom's calling... i've gotta take this..."

who KNOWS the phone number to their local nordstrom?

i do.



and how about when you walk up to the dior counter and the girl says, "hi aubry..."

oy.

who what where when why wednesday.

q:

what household chore do you absolutely dread the most?

d-r-e-a-d...

a:

putting away the laundry.

i mean, why did the home builder HAVE to build me a window seat? it whispers, "here, pretty laundry, right here... take a rest. you've just been soaked and tumbled. it's been a long day. just sit here for a while and hang out."

i'm ashamed of myself for two reasons.

1. i just proclaimed my practically-perfect-in-every-way-hood to robin on her blog about the creeps, all the while, i have one hundred pounds of laundry haunting me every time i enter my bedroom.

heck, i proclaim my practically-perfect-in-every-way-hood to everyone by virtue of this blog.

shameful.

2. my mom gave me the genes to be the best laundry folder EVER {*cough* mexican heritage *cough*}. i earned my laundry folding merit badge by age 6. something's gotta be said about not using your talents.

boy, can i fold a load of laundry.

i feel this talent slipping through my fingers....

in this mix, i found 6 pairs of jeans, 5 concert tees and 16... count them... SIXTEEN cardigans... amongst other things.

and how is all of THAT supposed to fit in THIS: ??

i, once again, encounter the closet issue. seriously - this was my closet BEFORE the laundry was put away.

cardigan-itis. it's a compulsive disorder. no cure, as of yet. i'm hopeless.

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a sweet treat.

it's pretty much all i ever wanted...

a spring saturday with weather perfect enough for flip flops... which, in turn, is perfect enough for a pedicure at nailed! and lunch at tulie to follow.

the first time i visited, i endulged in the world's biggest, creamiest lemon bar. really, really... out of this world. but that left a whole display case of desserts for me to try next time... and the time after that...

this time, i didn't limit myself just to desserts. tulie has a wee small menu of soups, salads, and sandwiches. you know me... blend it up in a soup, send it straight into my veins and i'm guaranteed to love it.

the BEST tomato soup. the BEST grilled cheese panini {with fancy-pants guyere cheese. mmmm...}

and for dessert? a fresh berry tart {and} coconut cream tart.

...delish!

Paperwork

Today we got the pre-approval paperwork for our home loan.. it's amazing because this is only the paperwork for the pre-approval and there is a ton of it and it's very complicated.. I can't wait to see the actually paperwork when we buy a house...

New Podcast Business Cards

Check out my new Knights of the Guild podcast business card.. it turned out pretty good.. I also made one for Jenni, my co-host.

台南鎮門宮之旅

聽說台南鹿耳門鎮門宮有家蚵仔煎攤，特別好吃，三五好友相招而去，這一去，一直到晚上八點多才回到家，因為一路好玩’好吃的東西太多了．

鹿耳門是六月門的諧音，”無田無園，儘看六月園”，是先民遷移於此，展現就地重生的一句話．這裡原是鄭成功登陸的地方，現在蓋有一座鎮門宮，奉祀國姓爺，有趣的是以荷蘭人的造型為門神，還打赤腳，來這裡吃盤蚵仔煎，和當地耆老話家常，看來我也越來越在地化了！

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this sweet boy.

is two years old today!

happy birthday, sean man!

(he used to be sean baby, but with the addition of another digit n' all... he's a man now.)



he's sweet and loveable.



and when i ask him if he misses me, he responds with "oh, freak yeah!"

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Choosing a House

After our full day or running around Harry and I went over the email our realtor sent us on potential houses. Out of 31 homes we liked 8 and marked them as a possibilities and had 1 favorite, but rejected the rest for being to small, to expensive, an auction, or just not to our liking... we even had one next to a cemetery which creep me out but Harry found my reaction hilarious. So now we send this back to our Realtor and she sets up appointments to view them next weekend.. we're very excited.

The house pictured to the right is the one we liked the most.. will see it next weekend.

Stealing Gas and Running Errands

Today we had to run some errands. Since we did nothing yesterday we had to get a bunch of things done before I went back to work on Monday. But when I got in my jeep I noticed I had absolutely no gas. The night before I had at least a half a tank as I drove to the store to buy some soda but today there was nothing. Someone must have syphon my gas out of my jeep during the night. It just amazes me that someone would do that.. So was drove directly to the gas station hoping my car would make it... and will filled up once again.

After getting gas we went to CVS for prescription, Bank to deposit money, Target to buy some tools, Vet to pick up some skin pills for Daisy, Barnes and Noble to buy a book on house buying then had lunch at PF Chang's (first time and it was very good), then I had to go to work for a few hours and Harry helped me transfer files, then we went grocery shopping then home were we watched more TV and I did a little bit more editing of The Ready Room podcast..

All in all a very packed day.

台南聖母廟20090419宋江陣金獅團直播存檔

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第五段:

Never judge a book by it's cover

Last Saturday on a British TV show called Britain's Got Talent as very modest and quirky woman took the stage to laughs, eye rolling and ridicule from the crowds and judges. Then she opened her mouth and this angelic sound came from it. The crowd went crazy with applause, the judges jaws dropped and this very sweet older lady blew away this crowd.

My friend Tim Tweeted and posted on the Treksf forums the video of this since being in the US I wasn't able to see this. I watched it on Monday morning and was in tears. It was so inspirational, moving and the perfect way to start my week.

What is more is this woman's background and the life she lead. She had been taking care of her dying mother for years and years until recently when she passed away. She lives with her cat Pebbles and has never been kiss. So the song she sang I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserable just fit her life so well, it added another dimension to this lovely woman's performance.

Now five days later I still cry watching her performance and am moved beyond words.. I've watch it about 20 times so far. Her video on YouTube has had more then 16 million hits in five days, she has become a worldwide celebrity over night and I couldn't be more happier for her.

Today I watched her first (of many) US appearance on CBS Morning Talk Show and she is very quiet and awkward and you can tell she still not quite sure what is happening.. but she sang again live and it was FANTASTIC.

Bottom line is we put FAR TOO MUCH emphasis on looks and FAR TOO LITTLE on just accepting a person for his or herself. And shame on us. I have never been one to judge people on look alone but this video and Susan's courage to stand up there as inspired me to double my effects in accepting everyone. Susan, you are an inspiration. You are a BEAUTIFUL person with a voice to match!!

If you haven't seen her check her out on you tube.

Recording The Ready Room

Today was my day to rest, I had to record the latest Ready Room podcast with my friends Jen and Rick and that was alot of fun since we haven't all been together for over a month since we all have been busy here and there. So that was alot of fun. I did a little editing but most of the day was spent with Harry on the couch trying to catch up on some missed TV. So it was a nice relaxing Saturday.

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Still at Work

Well it's going on 12 hours and I'm still at work.. it's not the longest I have every been at work but it's been awhile since I pulled a shift longr then 12 hours. Oh well luckily it doesn't happen to often and I do still have my internet to keep my company. I hope to get out of here soon.. I've already eaten an entire bag of popcorn and now feel sick.. want to get out and pick up some dinner for the hubby and me.

It's One of Those Days

We had six outputs to upload to the Network today. Each one takes about three hours to prepare. Even though everyone knows it takes a long time and we ask they have to ready by lunch time it never happens that way.. it's not 4:30pm and we have gotten one episode done. The other shows were either no where near ready or they tell us it will happen in ten minutes which stretches into four hours.. so now we wait. Jermey my day AE has to leave at 5pm today which means I will be the one waiting for these editors/producers to give me their episodes so I can get them up on the network ftp site.

Besides those uploads we have DC special and webisodes that we have to upload to the network.

It's going to be a long night.

RCPM.

as if one night of wild and crazy, late night concert going wasn't enough... i pulled double duty and hit up another show on wednesday night.

... and you couldn't get more other-end-of-the-spectrum than britney spears and roger clyne and the peacemakers.

RCPM - miss jen's all time local fav. the band she's been raving about for as long as i've known her. they originally booked their show for april 14. *gasp* the same night as brit's show. we'd like to think they bumped their show back a night all because of jen... but who knows.

regardless... the show was FANTASTIC.

anyone else completely irritated by the RIDICULOUSLY LARGE HUMAN BEING in this picture? try standing behind him. ugh.

this pretty well sums it up. mexico and beer. and a totally good time.