The Bed List/The Dinner List

Posted by on Dec 9, 2005 in dish | 0 comments BED LIST: ANTONIO BANDERASA couple of years ago, mimi and crew got to see Antonio Banderas in Nine on Broadway. Three hours’ worth of singing, dancing, electric Antonio. Talk about charisma–we were in the balcony and wanted to rip his shirt off. Antonio Banderas has “it” in spades. The eyes? Check. The Latin soul (he’s Spanish)? Check. The tongue-in-cheek sense of...
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The Little Monsters!

Posted by on Dec 6, 2005 in dish | 0 comments I have to admit feeling vindicated when reading about Dan McCauley, the proprietor of the Chicago-area bakery/sandwich shop A Taste of Heaven. Irritated to the limit by screeching wild creatures disguised as children that regularly invaded his shop, he posted a sign on the door of his shop reading, “Children of all ages have to behave and use their inside voices when coming to A Taste of...
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The Bed List/The Dinner List

Posted by on Dec 2, 2005 in dish | 0 comments BED LIST: HEATH LEDGERThere’s just something about Australian men, something very mad, bad, and dangerous to know. But they’re friendly and approachable at the same time (a volatile mixture, to be sure). I don’t know about you, but my inner teen fell in love with Heath Ledger in Ten Things I Hate About You. Conditions worsened with successive movies, but he won my grownup,...
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Feelin’ Crappy

Posted by on Dec 1, 2005 in dish | 0 comments I spent today out of the classroom at a department chairpersons workshop. These run the gamut from really useful to mind-numbing wastes of time. Today’s leaned to the useful side of the continuum. Lots of good stuff about teaching writing, approaches to literature for students who aren’t good readers, problem solving with other English teacher types.It sucked.Not the workshop...
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Rejection

Posted by on Nov 30, 2005 in dish | 0 comments Got the first rejection email on Crash Test today. This is one of those events you expect to have happen but don’t really believe once it does. Realistically, it’s going to get rejected despite having a fabulous premise (of course I think so, but so do some other folks I trust who aren’t my mom or my sister) and a fabulous agent. In the Total Fantasy realm, I’m signing a...
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