Bev's Special Birthday Meeting

Beverly had a very special birthday meeting today while she was on the way to pick out her birthday treat... Matilda Ledger!

To be totally honest, Matilda wasn't very interested in Beverly, it was more her nanny and her nanny's friend. Bev was refusing to walk so I was dragging her a bit and they were laughing, saying, "It's always the little ones who are so tough."

So anywho, she's a cute little girl, which you all know. And it was nice to see her living a normal life... there was no paparazzi around whatsoever.

Guess What Today Is

It's Beverly's birthday!



My little girl is six years old today.

She's getting so big, turning into such a nice young lady!

To celebrate, she's listening to the birthday song Nora sang for her last year. (Hint, hint, sissy... she needs a new one.)

She's also going to get to pick out a nice treat from the pet store. Let's hope it's not another bully stick.

Daily Tweet Roundup

Today I was...

• following backtobarnwell on Twitter. #
• bothered because someone in Starbucks smells like hair coloring--ammonia--and it's bugging me big time. #
• hungry. #
• wanting warm cookies. #
• going to ring my neighbors to see if they want cookies, too. #
• eating cookies, watching the debate! #
• really nervous. #
• I'm not going to run for president simply because I don't think I could handle the debate. That's the only reason. #
• I do not like the smug look on John McCain's face every time Obama talks. #
• omg, my cable is going out. digitizing, freezing. this sucks. #
• i just missed the best part. #
• I think McCain is the type of guy who believes in conspiracy theories. #
• You tell him, Obama! #
• The fact that McCain won't let this go, makes him seem crazy. #
• I like what he just said about education... the credit for public service. Nice. #
• Excellent, closing, Obama! I love that man. I am so excited! I'm going to take a picture of my polling place tomorrow so I can show you all. #
• going to bed. G'nite, peeps. #

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Graphic Novels

I went to the big chain bookstore in my neighborhood last weekend (Dear BookCourt, I didn't buy anything) and I was amazed to see how big the section was for graphic novels. I was even more amazed to see that it was filled with people—mostly teens—checking out the goods.

I'm telling you this because I just read about Jonathan Ames' new graphic novel, The Alcoholic, in today's NY Times.

Btw, Jonathan Ames lives in my neighborhood and I ate lunch next to him once in a cafe. (But I didn't say anything; I'm a chicken.)

Anywho, can you see yourself reading a graphic novel as an adult? Is this something I should be thinking about?

Hmmm... maybe something called "The Adventures of Elvis the Bush Cat and his little sister Bev."

Or, perhaps this is the perfect venue for "The Adventures of Picky and Choosy, My Unborn Children."

Halloween

My mom is coming into town for Halloween this year and we are going to my sister's house to spend it with Nora and Jack.

Nora has decided that she wants to be a sheep this year and we are going to make her outfit. I found a costumes on the internet that we can make, but nothing that I'm crazy about. Any suggestions?

PS - Jack is going to be a skeleton or a lion and we already have his costume.

PPS - In my search for a sheep, I found this ADORABLE chicken costume on Martha Stewart.

Advertising

I've had this site up for about four years and I've never really advertised on it, but I've decided to give it a try. In addition to a couple affiliate links, I'm testing out both Adsense and Adbrite to see which works best.

Looking at the Adsense ads, I get how they work... they pull keywords from my posts and target the ads towards that. Like, since I just wrote about Oprah's farm animal show, most of them have to do with farm animals. See? Someone's selling baby farm animals, pictures of baby animals, animal feed and grain, cattle videos...




The Adbrite one, on the other hand is trying to get people to buy ninja swords and ninja gear right now. I mean, where did that come from?




They've linked to someone selling "throwing knives" and something called "hand claws." Does that appeal to anyone reading this site? What would make them put that ad up?

I would take it down, but I kind of want to wait and see what else they come up with.

PS - Now that I just wrote "Ninja swords," "hand claws," and "throwing knives," it's never going to go away.

PPS - Whatever you do, DON'T CLICK IT! I want it to go away.

PPPS - If you have to scroll to accommodate the new width, please let me know in the comments section. I checked my sitemeter to see what most people's monitor resolution is and I thought everybody would be able to see it without scrolling. (Yes, sitemeter tracks things like this, isn't that freaky?)

My DVR

My cable went out last night and still isn't on. I'm kind of irritated because I missed the latest episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Have any of you watched it? OMG, it's amazing. The women on it are so terrible. Except NeNe... She's the only one I'd want to hang out with.


NeNe

Anywho, my one worry about getting a DVR was that I was going to watch more television and that's exactly what's happened. You see, without a DVR, if I missed an episode or two of something I usually stopped watching. But now since I can record things, I watch everything.

Like Oprah, for example. I used to watch a couple episodes a week. Now I watch all five.

I hate my DVR. But I love it so much that I can't get rid of it.

Little Star

Omg, look how adorable this little Parisian girl is on The Sartorialist.

Great CNN Video

Everybody should watch this great video of Campbell Brown on CNN discussing Arab-Americans and Muslims.

Via Huffpo... Campbell Brown Hits Back On Maligning Arabs, Muslims (VIDEO)




The neighborhood I live in in Brooklyn has a large Middle-Eastern population. They are the people I buy my groceries, soda, liquor, toiletries, etc. from and I couldn't agree with Campbell more. DON'T HATE.

UPDATE: From Wikipedia, a list of famous Muslim-Americans. On this list are Muhammad Ali, Shaquille O'Neal, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Ahmad Rashad, the members of Kool & the Gang, Mos Def, Akon, Jermaine Jackson, Iman, Dave Chappelle and more.

Farm Animals on Oprah

Oprah's show today is about how we treat the animals we eat. I'm watching now!

UPDATE: She just referenced this NY Times article, written by Nicholas D. Kristof, a man who was raised on a farm.

I’m a farm boy who grew up here in the hills outside Yamhill, Ore., raising sheep for my F.F.A. and 4-H projects. At various times, my family also raised modest numbers of pigs, cattle, goats, chickens and geese, although they were never tightly confined...

Our cattle, sheep, chickens and goats certainly had individual personalities, but not such interesting ones that it bothered me that they might end up in a stew. Pigs were more troubling because of their unforgettable characters and obvious intelligence. To this day, when tucking into a pork chop, I always feel as if it is my intellectual equal."

Daily Tweet Roundup

Today I was...

• so excited that Tony Robbins is on the Today show. I love that freakishly huge man. #

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Guess Where

Guess where I took these pictures:







Alaska!

I had a layover in Anchorage once while flying to Taiwan. (An extra-long layover because something was wrong with the plane.) There were mounted animals just like these all over the place and I thought it was creepy so I took pictures. I think the first one is a beaver.

You know what else I remember about the Alaska airport? There was a lot of beef jerky for sale.

Here She Is

Here's the girl who took my job.




Her name is Jessica. Mark thinks she's more Joan than I am.

She so is not... she's more Peggy:



(No offense, Jessica—Peggy's a lovely girl—it's just that I'm more Joan.)

Mad At Mark

I'm angry with Mark.

You see, he needed to hire an assistant for a special three-week project he's working on and he asked me if I wanted to come to LA and do it and I, of course, said yes because how fun would that be?

We had a whole plan. I was going to dress up like Joan Holloway from Mad Men...



...and he was going to sexually harass me. Then we'd smoke and drink in the office and just have a gay ole time.

I was also going to answer the phone ala Jeff Lewis and say, "It's a good day at Mark's office, this is Karyn Von Bosnak, how can I help you?"

I was going to help him put together binders for these special projects and I'd like it because it's kind of like scrap-booking.



And I was going to help him arrange things on his bulletin board and I'd also like it because it's kind of like hanging pictures.



So anywho, I told him that I wanted to do it, then I went to the zoo, and by the time I came home, he hired someone else. This was Saturday.

B*stard.

Angelina & Brad

I'm not such a fan of Angelina, but the pics that Brad Pitt shot of her for W magazine are pretty amazing.