May 3, Houston: The big one -- the Inprint reading -- occurs at the Alley Theatre on Monday, May 3. Do not miss it or you'll be sorry. I'm not kidding -- I'm going to say the craziest, most intellectual yet hilarious stuff I can think of, and I'll be sharing the stage with the ultra sexy Oscar Casares, too.
June 24, Houston: I'm one of the peeps scheduled to read at Poison Pen, at Houston's famous Poison Girl bar. Besides me, everyone there will be ultra, *super* sexy. Come see me and drink!
June 26, Washington, DC: I'll be reading at the American Library Association conference. Come on down.
My other blog: Go read my the Houston Chronicle parenting blog (or my ChronMomBlog, as I like to call it) and make sure my kids won't resent me more than other kids resent their own parents.
Buy my new novel, Lone Star Legend. Already did? Well, buy a few more for your friends, then. :)
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Linkelodeon!Dude, you know someone at Mattel got fired over this "Oreo Barbie", which has since been recalled. Hopefully Mattel has since hired at least one person of each non-white race in which they make the dolls, so stuff like this won't happen. Seriously, though - why didn't at least one white person there know what Oreo means when used to describe a black person? I'm not black, and I know. Weren't they using that term on The Jeffersons a hundred freaking years ago?
All of a sudden, everybody's talking about this YouTube thing. My boyfriend showed it to me last week, and I can tell already that it's going to revolutionize my life. At the most bacic, it's like being able to share any song with anybody, without having to download MP3s. Plus - the videos!
Look. This was the most influential music video of my youth. God, I so wanted to be Dale Bozzio and marry her keyboard player.
Here is a sample of the kind of dialogue that takes place between me and my boyfriend every night now, while he's home on his computer and I'm home on mine, since he found YouTube.
ME: Oh my god, I heard this old-ass '80s song on the HD radio today, but I don't know who sings it.
HIM: How does it go?
ME: The guy's like, "No one can stop me now... Tonight I'm on the loose!" and then, "No one can tell us how... TONIGHT YOU'RE ON THE LOOSE!!" And he's kind of like Peter Schilling, but kind of like Loverboy?
HIM: Hmm. I don't remember it.
ME: Come on. The keyboard's like, "Doo doo doo-doo, doo doo doo doo doo..."
HIM: No.
ME: And the guitar's like, "DUH! Duh, nuh, nuh-nuh NUH!"
HIM: Is it "On the Loose" by Saga?
ME: Uh...
HIM: I just sent you a link.
ME: Oh my god! OH MY GOD. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. YOU FUCKING RULE.
You can use it for videos that aren't '80s music videos, too. Or so I hear...
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10:48 AM #Comments:
I too recently found YouTube and yeah, I love it.I have to admit I spent several hours the other day watching old clips of General Hospital.
Yes, I know - I need serious help. But it did help remind me why I started watching the stupid show 13 years ago.
Man, addictions are bad.
# posted by
lisal : 11:34 AM
Hi Gwen,
So, is Mattel gonna make coconut Barbie next?
Janice~
# posted by
Janice : 12:26 AM
Lisal: I'm scared to start using it for TV stuff. My friend Yvonne is obsessively watching old BritComs as we speak, I think.
Janice: Right?? That plus Asian Twinkie Barbie.
# posted by
Gwen : 9:56 PM
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