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I won another blog contest and along with my prize the blog author sent me this lovely card.
You can click on the picture to see that this is a trading card. The contest I won was Lisa Jackson Read-Fest. You should really check out J. Kaye’s Book Blog. It’s a great blog if you love to read.
For more postcard fun, visit postmistress Marie Reed
>My dad sent me this cool YouTube link. I decided to post the link instead of put the video here because I think you will enjoy it better if you can see it full screen. Here is what it is about:
This fun YouTube video features a 1980s pop classic. The rock band Toto scored their biggest hit with Africa in 1982. The song is instantly recognizable. But it has been reinvented.
Perpetuum Jazzile is an a cappella jazz choir from Slovenia. It’s hard to think of something further from an ‘80s rock band. But their version of Africa may best the original. The group has amazing voices.
But the beginning of this video is really striking. Group members simulate an African thunderstorm with their hands.
It’s really something to see and hear.(Don’t turn up your sound – the sound of raindrops begins really soft.)
>to blog. Especially from my phone. No spell check, and no way to make paragraphs. I also live in fear of pushing the wrong button and losing a big long post that has taken me forever to type. However it is also the best way to blog from work. This way I will have to post about our trip to the High Line and how wet we got Sunday when I come back to clean up and make it pretty. I also will have to put my pictures on the web.
>Em rode on the train with me. I was going to work, she was going ‘people watching’. I learned that there is enough time for me to get breakfast at Pershing Square and still get to work. Of course I wouldn’t do that on my own, only if someone rode to the city with me on the train. Have I mentioned that Pershing Square is the BEST place in NYC for breakfast? (Remember this is a BLOG and everything on here is my opinion) Have I told you why? I will have to come back to you on that, that has to be its own separate post. Next post I PROMISE.
I left work early to meet Em. She asked to meet at the new Sephora in Time Square. I met her coming out as I was walking toward the store. She had the silver and pink bag that was featured on the e-mail about the new store. She said it was too crowded there and she wanted to go to the other Sephora. She wanted her eyes done, as she is tired of what she does with them. So we go to Sephora and she asks somebody and they ask this little cute guy. He has Em sit on a stool, he has this high squeaky voice. When he goes to get something I ask Em if she noticed he was wearing eyeliner and his lashes were curled? Well her eyes looked fabulous after and we both spent some money there.
Tomorrow we are going to the city while the rest of the family goes to a Star Trek Convention. Leonard Nimoy is supposed to be there. Em and I are going to The High Line. Em also asked me to look up street fairs.
I found this website when we were down for the weekend with Gwen. SCHEDULE New York City Street Fairs and Festivals, so I went to it and found:
Sunday August 2nd ~ Festival of the Americas ~ (on 6th Avenue from 42nd – 56th Street)
Those are our plans. I hope to have pictures to post when we get home.
>The New York Times
Monday, July 27, 2009 — 10:36 AM ET
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Merce Cunningham, Influential Choreographer, Dies at 90
Merce Cunningham, the American choreographer who was among a handful of 20th-century figures to make dance a major art and a major form of theater, died Sunday night. He was 90 and lived in Manhattan.
Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na
>Checking out this blog a vagabond’s sketchbook I found this Youtube clip. I’m not a big fan of Bob Hope or James Cagney, but the dance routine is only surpased by the quips. Enjoy and check out the blog. It’s pretty cool too.
>Sometimes it’s better not to know things. Like I used to not have a site meter. I just assumed that if no one was commenting, then no one was reading and I was happy. Then I got a site meter, and the numbers showed that people were reading my blog, how exciting! As the numbers went up, my mood went up. I was happy, then this morning I got my weekly report that said I have an average of 1 person reading my blog. That made me sad. Now I want a pity party, on the count of three everybody go ‘Ahhh, poor Bella, she has no life!” Er, I mean, well you know what I mean. Pity party over.
Adding to the site meter report is the fact that so far on my book giveaway I have one person entered. ONE PERSON! And supposedly I have more readers on that blog. Sigh. I am going to have to take drastic measures to get more entries. The giveaway is only for another week. For a while I was afraid I was going to
(a) tell the publishers that I had no entries; or
(b) lie and make up some entries (you know, give them the addresses of friends and family).
Well now I have one entry. Hopefully I’ll get at least one more before the end of the week.
>My postcard collection is not just postcards people have sent me. Take this postcard,
I have found the saying to be true. I meet lots of friendly people in New York.
For more postcard fun, visit postmistress Marie Reed
>The New York Times
Thursday, July 23, 2009 — 8:51 AM ET
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F.B.I. Arrests Dozens in N.J. Corruption Sweep
F.B.I. agents are sweeping across northern New Jersey Thursday, making arrests in what is described as a major corruption probe.
WNBC-TV in New York reported and showed images of the mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus being taken into F.B.I. headquarters in Newark. The station also showed rabbis being taken into custody.
Read More: ~The New York Times~
>Very sad news. Frank McCourt, author of the memoirs Angela’s Ashes, ‘Tis and Teacher Man, died yesterday at 78 in New York City. He had suffered from metastatic melanoma, according to the New York Times, which has a long obituary and a remembrance called “A Storyteller Even as a Teacher.”
We remember him fondly for his comments at the publication party for Teacher Man, when, with his usual deadpan delivery, he lamented that the fame and fortune that came with Angela’s Ashes hadn’t come earlier in his life, but then said that had this occurred, he would have died long earlier “from drink and fornication.”
Thursday, 18 July 2013
May 21, 2008
NYT > THE CITY
Belleza
just a (transplanted) city girl 