What was begun as an online journal of the books I read evolved...or maybe it devolved...to also feature behind the scenes goings-on at All About Romance from my perspective (mostly based on my personal feelings - okay, it's a personal pity party); topics I've gone over ad nauseum in commentary at AAR, including the nature of reviews and online behavior; and my non-cyber life (including family and items in pop culture that capture my interest, which is just about everything).

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Below you'll find the blogs I visit, broken out in my own odd little system of categories.

April 2007



"It's the American Way"

Sunday, 29 April 2007 3:38 P GMT-05
Last night we went to see Hoax, the film version of the book Clifford Irving's wrote about his faux Howard Hughes biography.  The movie has been touted as the best of the year so far, and I'm inclined to agree, because if nothing else, R
Category: Entertainment

A Little Bit of Heaven

Sunday, 29 April 2007 9:47 A GMT-05
I've mentioned before that I'm a latecomer to the joys of drinking coffee (see my private entry dated April 21st)...and that, truth be told, I prefer my coffee the way children do, although with a couple of jazzed up bits. At Starbucks I ord
Category: Personal/Political

Music

Thursday, 26 April 2007 3:27 P GMT-05
Today I realized I hadn't bought and downloaded music from iTunes in more than two years.  During that time I added music from CD's belong to me, my daughter, or my husband, or individual songs from them that I liked.  When we were
Category: Entertainment
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Holy, crap...did you watch LOST?

Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:41 P GMT-05
This entry contains spoilers, so be forewarned. S P O I L E R S You could have knocked me over with a feather when, at the very end of the episode, Hurley learned something many LOST fans have suspected since the start...everybody on Oceanic flight
Category: Entertainment
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Highlander

Wednesday, 25 April 2007 5:33 P GMT-05
I've been a huge fan of the Highlander television series for years now, and interviewing David Abramowitz, who was creative consultant for the show, was a career highlight for me a decade ago. One of the CD's we bought for our daughter last week -
Category: Entertainment
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Apologies

Tuesday, 24 April 2007 6:52 P GMT-05
When I wrote my blog entry last Monday, I did so without knowing what had occurred earlier in the day in the massacre at Virginia Tech.  We listened to CD's throughout the day, which was spent mostly on the road. It was not until after I'
Category: Personal/Political
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Where's the Logic?

Tuesday, 24 April 2007 2:48 P GMT-05
I'm not a big fan of crying in public, but I did my share of it on the airplane ride home from Los Angeles last month when I read my copy of the April 2nd issue of Newsweek.  The powerfully gripping and poignant cover story was "VOICES
Category: Personal/Political
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New Shoes

Monday, 16 April 2007 2:01 P GMT-05
Okay, so I had a bit of a meltdown last evening when we drove our daughter back to school after the day out with us. Her neck of the woods was full-throttle into a blizzard, and between that and my fear of heights, I had a meltdown and thought for s
Category: Entertainment

Such a Nerd!

Tuesday, 10 April 2007 3:10 P GMT-05
I am proud to proclaim that I am a nerd...or geek...whichever fits.  We'll be in New England visiting our daughter for about a week beginning later in the week, and I've just researched two of my never-indulged passions: maple sugaring a
Category: Personal/Political
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Do You Remember "Remember Me"?

Tuesday, 10 April 2007 2:28 P GMT-05
Do you remember a classic Star Trek: The Next Generation episode entitled Remember Me? It's not one of the nearly twenty episodes I listed back in 2003 (click the Star Trek: TNG link in the previous sentence), but a recent experience we had with
Category: Entertainment
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The Sopranos

Monday, 9 April 2007 8:36 A GMT-05
Okay...so who else watched the final season opener for The Sopranos last night? I'm so happy to have Tony and the gang back so soon after the fall of Rome, so to speak, and was also pleased with so many interesting teasers of upcoming shows. &nb
Category: Entertainment
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Technology's great...except when it doesn't work

Sunday, 8 April 2007 7:33 P GMT-05
Because we'll be out of town a lot over the next year and a half - later this week, for instance, we'll be going up to New England to visit our daughter for over a week - I finally sucked it up and bought a laptop.  I ordered it from Len
Category: Reading
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Mini-poll ballots

Thursday, 5 April 2007 2:56 P GMT-05
Today we posted the results in our recent mini-polls for Favorite Funny Authors & Titles and Pets You Wish Were Yours. As I've been doing throughout this process, I'll post my own ballot here. I didn't have much in common with the fi
Category: Reading AAR

Another Hottie!

Thursday, 5 April 2007 10:57 A GMT-05
So we're watching Criminal Minds last night and I turn to my husband and ask, "What if I blogged about him tomorrow? So he sighs, shakes his head and says, "That's all right...I understand. I know I don't satisfy you."TT
Category: Entertainment
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Enjoy This Eye Candy!

Monday, 2 April 2007 12:47 P GMT-05
It's been forever that Maroon5 fans have waited for their new CD to drop. That won't happen until May, but their first single and video have debuted. Enjoy the eye candy that is Adam Levine...he just gets hotter and hotter as far as I'm
Category: Entertainment
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