Clementine Ford Comes Out

Nice necklace :-)
Via Dorothy Snarker and After Ellen I just read about the Diva magazine story in which Clementine Ford (also still known as the daughter of Cybill Shepherd, but her career is somewhat nascent) comes out. The more public figures the better I say, but I have to admit that my main motivation for blogging this is so I could post the above picture.

chaiken's angels

thanks, as always, to ms snarker, for this screen cap from the upcoming l word episode. my favourite angel was always sabrina. my favourite sabrina is always audrey hepburn!

o my gosh - the L word is back!

thanks to ms. snarker for finding pics from the premiere party on sunday.

now *this* would make me happy!

mmmmm marlee

only a few weeks until the new season of 'the l word' begins and the p.r. machines are beginning to roll. see dorothy's page for more details. i just borrowed this pic of my favourite guest on the show. am not a tibette fan, and am hoping, probably in vain, that after the writers have messed with bette's heart some more, they will let her end up with jodi. and i just saw a pig fly by my window.

looking forward to the l word?

here is a trailer for you from youtube:


i am probably the only one in the world who does not want to see mama b and mama t get back together again. first because, well, it just doesn't work for me. mainly because i love mmmarlee mmmatlin and want her to stay on the show!!!!!

marlee matlin on the L word

hmmmm ... scribe grrl on after ellen called last night's ep a 'dry heave'. have to say that i'm not sure how she meant it but it did not sound like a compliment. d & i, however, watched the beginning of the show again the 2nd time showtime ran it just to see bette & jodi together again. i have always had a vague yearning to learn sign language. i know a few words, of course mostly rude ones. i used to lust after the signer in the velvet dress at the indigo girls' concerts at wolf trap :-)

the question is: which version of sign language should i learn?

let me back up a bit ... every 2 years at the wrn biennial, i meet a colleague from california who is profoundly deaf. she lip reads so well that when we first met, she told me that i had an accent, and the second time we met, she was able to mock me by imitating my accent. extremely cool.

anyway, a few years ago the biennial was in london, and while we were there, r was invited to speak with a deaf group there. it turns out that american sign language and english sign language are two completely different languages ... and they needed a translator.

meanwhile, i am afraid i am getting a bit of a crush on marlee matlin's character. time to go to bed :-) here is the official showtime portrait from the screensaver for you. ok, for me!

posting photos on the blog

at first, i only knew how to blog pictures from flickr. but i am cheap/poor, and didn't pay them so i had a limit to how many pix i could store there.

today blogger suggested i upgrade to their new version. hmmmmm, i thought, maybe now i can do better with uploading pix! i am descended from luddites and yet i was somehow able to find my way to the faq. i couldn't, however, make any sense out of what i read there. there was supposed to be a button to press, but i could not find it (story of my life ;-) ).

OH DEAR!



a kind poster in the help group suggested that i abandon my beloved safari and switch to firefox, and that should solve my problems.

i did.
and it did.
feeling like i'm something pretty special at the moment!



hip hip HURRAH.