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.

September 2007



Castles

Saturday, 29 September 2007 10:44 A GMT-05
My husband was at day one of a two-day retreat yesterday for a leadership project, and as a result, didn't get home until pretty late. He'll be gone for much of today as well, so I decided to use the time to do some creative work at Shop AAR. 2008
Category: AAR
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Separated at Birth?

Saturday, 29 September 2007 12:07 A GMT-05
Dave FoleyKen Burns
Category: Entertainment

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

Friday, 28 September 2007 6:34 P GMT-05
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict Laurie Viera Rigler Grade: C+ Sensuality: Subtle I'm not quite sure what I expected when I cracked open Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, but it wasn't a time travel novel. Still, the author's prose style enga
Category: Reading
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LOL...Not Really

Thursday, 27 September 2007 1:37 P GMT-05
On Monday I called the corporate offices of Level3 Communications several times after a very discouraging conversation with their repair center, during which I was told that they could not set up a service ticket because AAR and its host, inetconcept
Category: AAR Internet

Damn!

Tuesday, 25 September 2007 9:00 A GMT-05
Damn! Now that it's over, can I tell you how absolutely angry and scared I've been since discovering that AAR users in at least six states who use very popular ISP's were essentially locked out of the site for nearly a week? Yesterday I actually emai
Category: AAR Internet
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AAR Aid

Sunday, 23 September 2007 1:51 P GMT-05
Today I am announcing that AAR is once again conducting a charity auction. Two years ago AAR Aid raised thousands of dollars benefiting the Red Cross in New Orleans. This time around our chosen charity is Hands on New Orleans, Their written mission
Category: AAR
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Mad Men (again), Gordon Ramsey, Top Chef

Thursday, 20 September 2007 4:38 P GMT-05
Okay, so the last two episodes of Mad Men have me riveted, and I'm no longer wavering about whether or not the show pisses me off more than it engages my interest. Sandy's got a great blog entry about it over at AAR After Hours, and the comments intr
Category: Entertainment
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My TravelBuddy Map

Thursday, 20 September 2007 10:29 A GMT-05
Here's just one of the things I'm spending too much time doing on Facebook:
Category: Personal/Political
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Starbucks Makes Me Feel Good

Wednesday, 19 September 2007 5:08 P GMT-05
As I write this, I am sitting in my local Starbucks, enjoying the entire experience of not only drinking my tall sugar-free hazelnut, non-fat latte, but of drinking it at a table that allows me to plug in my laptop and work for as long as I want to.A
Category: Personal/Political
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e-Harmony

Tuesday, 18 September 2007 9:39 A GMT-05
A good friend of mine, in researching a book a couple of years ago, joined e-Harmony.com, and came away with a very bad taste in her mouth. What I know about online dating services could fill a thimble; about all I know about e-Harmony.com is that un
Category: Entertainment

Sexiest Man Alive

Sunday, 16 September 2007 12:00 A GMT-05
Sexiest Man Alive Diana Holquist Grade: D+ Sensuality: Warm When the editor at the magazine I review for listed the various books he had up for review, one featured a hero with purple eyes. How could I possibly not have chosen that one? Obviously it
Category: Reading

Much To Share!

Saturday, 15 September 2007 12:45 P GMT-05
Okay...lots of news to disseminate today, beginning with this: AAR's MySpace page is settling in nicely. I had two reasons for creating the page to begin with - to find a quick way to create links to authors and to help draw traffic to AAR from amon
Category: AAR Internet

Existential TV

Thursday, 13 September 2007 10:08 P GMT-05
So right before this week's episode of Tim Gunn's Guide To Style ended - and it was great, again, great swag, great segment with Carmen Marc Valvo, and instead of the life coach they had a terrific runway walking teacher because this week's make-over
Category: Entertainment

AAR now on MySpace, and btw...

Thursday, 13 September 2007 7:58 A GMT-05
AAR now has a home on MySpace! I set up the page a couple of days ago, and tweaked it through yesterday, when I publically announced its creation on AAR, this blog, an AAR After Hours. It occurred to me as I tried to add just enough text to the page.
Category: AAR Internet

Tell Me You Love Me

Wednesday, 12 September 2007 10:35 A GMT-05
On Sunday night my husband and I watched the debut episode of Tell Me You Love Me, HBO's new hour-long drama. Prior to the airing, critics had praised the show, but warned of its full nudity and extreme sexuality. They were right on all counts, but
Category: Entertainment
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Tim Gunn

Saturday, 8 September 2007 10:48 A GMT-05
<img src='http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/09/05/PH2007090502594.jpg' width=228' height='153'> More than anything else, it was probably Tim Gunn that got me addicted to Project Runway. I loved his obvious caring for th
Category: Entertainment
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MySpace update

Friday, 7 September 2007 11:23 A GMT-05
I no longer feel like I need to join Lucy in the "Friends of the Friendless"...I've got 28 friends! Yes, it's thoroughly ridiculous, and it seems to me that MySpace is the Webring of the "oughts", but yesterday I had a good time creating a music pla
Category: AAR Blogging Internet
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The Fashionista Diaries

Thursday, 6 September 2007 11:01 A GMT-05
So, A Model's Life interested me far more than any but the first two seasons of America's Next Top Model, but true drama fashion, in the bitchiest, cuttingest sense of the word, occurs on The Fashionista Diaries. The show, which airs on soap.net (a c
Category: Entertainment

Summer TV Wrap-Up

Wednesday, 5 September 2007 11:03 A GMT-05
So last night we watched the finale of Flight of the Conchords, which I first raved about earlier in the summer. Great episode, but it left me feeling kind of bereft to see what happened to poor Jemaine and Bret. Murray? I fear he may be a lost ca
Category: Entertainment
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Testing the Waters

Monday, 3 September 2007 11:32 A GMT-05
I'm testing the MySpace waters to look into the possibility of creating a presence for AAR. So Sunday afternoon I set myself up a MySpace page, just to see what was involved. I "get" MySpace far more than I understand FaceBook, but since I blog her
Category: Blogging
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The Devil Went Down To Georgia

Monday, 3 September 2007 12:00 A GMT-05
Yesterday in the car we were listening to the 70s on 7 (an XM station) and what I think is the best ever country song - and I don't like country music - came on the radio. My husband, who loves all music, country included, pretty well agreed. Below
Category: Entertainment
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Baby, It's Hot Inside!

Sunday, 2 September 2007 9:28 P GMT-05
Remember this Gap ad starring Raul Bova from a few years ago? Apparently all this time I was looking for it using the wrong search terms...I thought it was a Levis ad! And, here's a second one I don't remember at all - how is that possible? TTFN,
Category: Entertainment
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Big Spankable Asses?

Saturday, 1 September 2007 10:00 A GMT-05
I just finished updating AAR for the day...on the first of the month we post next month's list of books on sale. The very first title on the list? Big Spankable Asses. I'm all for truth in advertising, but that sounds more like the name of a Sir Mix
Category: Reading AAR
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