Have you ever gone outside in shorts and felt the breeze in your leg hairs? For a moment it’s lovely (much like I remember wetting the bed would be warm) and then you think Good Gawd I’ve turned into an ape!
So you run inside and shave your legs?
Yeah, me neither.
I’m all Jaw Droppy today.
Hilary Swank tells Marie Claire:
Well, my boyfriend’s son is 6 years old, and you wonder at what age you should stop walking around nude. Every morning he comes into the bedroom, and you’re just nude. But he doesn’t look twice; he doesn’t think about it yet. I just toss and turn too much when I sleep, and if I’m in clothes, I get all twisted up.
Uh, I know my answer and the words “someone else’s child” are involved… What do you say?
The woman is stunning, and an amazing actress, but if I were the mother of the six year old boy you gets to see “Daddy’s Special Friend” naked in the morning, I’d be having an apoplectic fit.
Later today I’ll see the Dr. Phil show that I taped back in August, some of you have already seen it. I’d like to address a few quick questions while my sick son is still asleep. There seems to be some recurring themes, so let’s just get it all out there.
She’s so judgmental! Doesn’t she read the bible? No, I’m Jewish, that’s not my book. We’re cool with using judgment, discretion and our best thinking caps.
You don’t know my situation, I have to work. Well, I said very specifically that we needed to support women who have to work. My mother was one of them, my stepmother too. The reality is that many women have need to go back to work right now because this is a horrendous economy. Still, I was able to stay at home when my husband earned $11 an hour and we live in Los Angeles. Clipping coupons and shopping at thrift stores were de rigeur. It can be done.
Staying at home is boring. Yes, it can be. I’m very sorry about that, there’s not much I can do to help there. Perhaps start a blog?
I cannot believe the attorney Cindy Teele and Executive Producer Carla Pennington took the stage along with Anita Pepper. Isn’t that unusual for broadcast television? Yes.
Here’s Dr Phil’s blog post. I know it makes for good television, but let’s remember that Robin Mc Graw stayed home and raised her kids.
It’s been a while since I’ve introduced any new technology to y’all over here. It’s not that there hasn’t been any, but nothing has really grabbed me as much as the recent burst of twitter list making add ons.
Back on September 30th Twitter announced that lists would be tested in a small closed group. Some would call this a closed beta, maybe even an alpha. Even though twitter is a lightfooted, independent company, they’re still a little slower than the startups that rely so heavily on them. While the rest of us are waiting for Twitter Lists to become a reality two startups emerged in the last few days that make great twitter lists. I’ll tell you who they are, and I’ll tell you why you need them.
Twillist is the first site I was alerted to. With twillist you can make lists of twitter users and share them with the world. Twillist is great because of it’s users. Naturally the techies are using it first, there are great lists being made by Sean Percival, Laurie Percival, Adam Katz and Michael Broukhim. What’s great and different about Twillist? There’s a snazzy button where you can ask to be added to someone’s list. This accomplishes a few incredibly important goals:
Mixtweet is another twitter list site and it’s UI is a little more nimble than Twillist. This morning I made a very short list of Social Media on Mixtweet, I like that I can clip small conversations so I can get back to them later. Why would I want a very small list on Mixtweet?
Lists in general are interesting. For some reason we all like them, the most read blog posts contain lists, magazines live off of them, and now we are listing our friends and coworkers publicly and privately online.
When I consult with companies I try to remind them that social media is exactly the same as every other part of your life. You have two ears and one mouth. By making twitter lists with either of these two add ons (and perhaps eventually with twitter itself) you can listen to groups of people without having to follow them on twitter. Thus reducing some of the extraneous noise.
Socially lists can be fantastic, but I’m going to give you a little advice you should probably cling to. If you make a list of 10 of the best (or 12 or 100) what you’ve done is tell thousands of people that they are not good enough to be on your list. Those thousands of people may be too polite to tell you this, but they think you’re a jackass and a social climber. If you must make a top tweeter list, make it private. People will hate you a tiny bit less.
Twillist and Mixtweet are both new and buggy, but they both add immense value to anyone who is a social media enthusiast or starter. If I were a marketer or a publicist I’d be using Mixtweet right now to make lists of the people I actually want to listen to, and I’d be keeping that private.
It was a few years ago that my dear sweet Steven died of AIDS.
The death was hideous, but his life was not. The reason that My Steven had some measure of comfort lies squarely at the feet of APLA. They made miracles happen. APLA helped me and My Steven’s friends nagivate the world AIDS and HIV care for twenty years. They had workshops for patients, their families and friends, APLA answered my sobbing phone calls and literally held my hands as I filled out forms that seasoned attorneys would struggle through.
This Sunday my friend William Vega will be walking in the 25th Annual AIDS Walk LA.
I humbly ask you to support William with a donation. Any amount is appreciated.
This is the day when APLA helped me. Please help them.
I have a big problem with Little League Baseball. In the middle of the parking lot is a blue building, it’s called The Snack Bar. During one of the 800 two hour long baseball games this weekend, I merrily trotted over to The Snack Bar hoping to quench my thirst.
“I’ll have a hot dog and a glass of Malbec please.” I told the gal at the counter.
“Uh, I don’t think we have Mal-beck.” she answered.
“Oh, okay then a glass of Merlot.” I said.
Then she went to get her mom, who was not thrilled that I’d asked her tween for booze.
“But it’s a Bar!” I plead.
“It’s a snack bar.” and she wasn’t smiling.
Y’all snack your way, but if you’re going to call it a Snack Bar, I damn well expect some booze there.
Please sign your name below and let Little League of America know that us Mommies are onto their false advertising. I’m going to have to go out on a limb and demand that Little League gives me the bar they told me I’d get.
Jessica Gottlieb is a blogger in Los Angeles who is passionate about the intersection of family life and technology. Continue...
