2004 – Page 41 – commonplacebook.com

Spring Shopping

Post author:HFM
Post published:April 2, 2004
Post category:Travel

La la la… I love shopping. Well, when I can buy stuff, that is. Not when I can only look and not buy., as was the case for the past year or so. I bought several pairs of cargo shorts from OldNavy.com and two pairs from gap.com. It’s easier to buy pants online because they always have my size. I’ve been shopping at lunch twice this week, and this weekend I’m going shopping with Dan and Doug and Melissa. Woo hoo. I think I might also invest in a new digital camera, before I go on my late April road trip.

Kerry campaign raises $43 million in quarter

Post author:HFM
Post published:April 2, 2004
Post category:Politics

Sen. John Kerry will announce today that his presidential campaign has raised more than $43 million in the first three months of this year, smashing Democratic Party records and signaling a party-wide fund-raising resurgence for Democrats, according to top party officials.

Speaking of Survivor…

Post author:HFM
Post published:April 2, 2004
Post category:Television

I completely forgot to blog that we saw Rupert from Survivor at P.F. Chang’s on Wednesday at lunch. There were a bunch of us there from work, and he came in and sat at the bar. A few minutes later his friends came in and sat with him. I completely refrained from running over to him and shouting “Rupert! Rupert!” Aren’t I nice?

SURVIVOR SOUTHERN STYLE

Post author:HFM
Post published:April 2, 2004
Post category:Jokes Television

Several southern TV stations are joining together and are planning to do their own Survivor show, entitled “Survivor: Southern Style.”

Rory & Paris, sitting in a tree…

Post author:HFM
Post published:April 1, 2004
Post category:Television

Apparently, on the April 13th episode of Gilmore Girls, the “Spring Break: Gilmore Girls Gone Wild” episode, Rory and Paris kiss. Finally! How much fan fiction do people have to write before they figure out what everyone really wants to see?

Update: of course it was played off as an experiment that Paris was doing, and ended up being about the male gaze anyway.

Hats in The Belfry

Post author:HFM
Post published:April 1, 2004
Post category:Recently Read

This is a pretty fun site if you love hats the way I and my sister do. I’m picking out something fun to send to her…
Ooo, they have 1920’s women’s flapper cloche hats…. I love these! This is the hat they’re wearing in all my vintage photos of lesbian couples and cross dressers. Cute!

Photographs of ghost town around Chernobyl area

Post author:HFM
Post published:March 31, 2004
Post category:Recently Read

Elena, a Russian woman with a motorcycle rides through and documents the ghost towns and abandoned buildings around Chernobyl.
Elena seems to have a new site at a dedicated URL.
UPDATE: Apparently Elena’s story isn’t entirely accurate. The original site claimed that she rode through on a motorcycle by herself, but the site later edited the story to merely suggest that she did so. Other sites say that riding through the area really isn’t possible. One can be escorted through on a tour, but riding around the area alone in an uncontrolled situation would be illegal and dangerous. Dunno

Air America Radio

Post author:HFM
Post published:March 31, 2004
Post category:Politics

The new liberal radio station, featuring Al Franken and Janeane Garafalo among others, has a streaming audio so you can listen to it even if you aren’t in one of the big cities.

Complete Idiot’s Guide to Sunken Treasure and Ships

Post author:HFM
Post published:March 31, 2004
Post category:Journal

Now that I’ve finished my book club selections months early, my next reading endeavor is going to be “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Sunken Treasure and Ships.” Why? Because I won the book at work last year, but they were out of print, and they finally tracked down a copy and gave it to me. It’s a fun book, and I like treasure books. So that’s my next completely frivolous read.
For those of you who may not know this already, my company publishes The Idiot’s Guides series, along with lots of more serious text books and computer science books.

Questions the AP want’s Condoleezza Rice to Answer before the 9/11 Commission

Post author:HFM
Post published:March 31, 2004
Post category:Politics

Interesting list of questions that the Associated Press suggests need to be cleared up by Dr. Rice when she testifies before the 9/11 Commission next week.
Those are good, but Salon’s list of questions is much better; it covers more of the White House’s actions surrounding 9/11 and not just contradictions between Clarke’s testimony and what the White House said.