I love to take photos off the ‘new’ HD tv. Since this is one of my favorite movies, I took some shots from WOZ when it was on last year to maybe use in my personal art collages. I love how pouty Judy’s lip is here.
Aug28
Category Archives: celebs
Aug1
Photo Hunt-Entertainment
James Taylor sings during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade 2008, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
Besides my favorite singer James Taylor entertaining me 4 times over the last 30 yrs, I find it entertaining to take photos off our fairly new HD-tv. I then make collages, etc. if I have enough like I had here. My next tv photo session may be to look at old videos and freeze frame them to take photos. I had tried that on the old tv-like looked awful.
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Happy Lammas Day! It’s the first day of harvest! It was traditional to bake a loaf of bread and have it consecrated at church, thus ‘loaf mass’-Lammas! Thanks Farmer’s Almanac!
Jul29
Facebook breakdown
It really is hard to know what to write about sometimes, so here goes about something that’s on my mind. As you all know by now, I ♥ Facebook. I am up to about 196 ‘friends’, many who I know. I haven’t officially broken down how I know who, but about 92 (at least) went to high school with me! I graduated with about 486, about 10 are deceased, so that is close to one fifth of my class-and I graduated 32 years ago. Of those ’92’, I’ve seen about 8 of them in the last few months. Many still live in the area, but many don’t . It’s just fun to talk to people I once shared a classroom with who I’d never thought I’d talk to again. And I have to say what a varied class! Many love sailing-I found a common thread there. Many have been to so many exotic areas for vacation.
So who are the other 100 or so? I think the next breakdown is definitely cross stitch pals. Many I met through blogging, so they are blogging pals too. There are those who I know just from blogging and a group called Tribe. And then I have people I meant through the Flickr photography site.
I have four ‘celebs’-one I went to school with who is a director and Emmy winner-Todd*Robinson. Jennifer*Hutt has a radio and tv show with Alexis*Stewart called ‘What*ever’. Charlotte*Lyons is a crafter and writer and works with Mary*Engelbreit. Rory*Schepisi was a finalist on ‘The Next*Food Network* Star’ on the Food*Network.
So that’s why I love Facebook-so many connections, so many interesting people-all in one place!
Jul16
10 years ago
He was to my generation as his father was to his own generation-handsome, charismatic, athletic and gone too soon. I’ll never get over his early passing. When I saw film footage of him calling his mother ‘mommy’ at his college or law school graduation, well I knew deep down he had to be a nice guy. I just read he use to call himself ‘Juan’ Kennedy sometimes when he sent mail to a college friend. So like him.
Jul7
RIP MJ
Michael’s favorite song. It was performed by his brother Jermaine at the memorial service.
“Smile” Written and Composed by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons. Music Composed by Charles Chaplin.
Smile, though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it’s breaking
When there are clouds in the sky
You’ll get by…
If you smile
With your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just…
Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That’s the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what’s the use of crying
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just…
Smile, though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it’s breaking
When there are clouds in the sky
You’ll get by…
If you smile
Through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile…
That’s the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what’s the use of crying
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile
Paris and Prince Jackson (center) sing in tribute to their father Michael. We watched the entire memorial and it was really a wonderful, touching event.
Jun26
A shocking death
We were all so surprised to hear of the passing of pop singer/entertainer Michael Jackson. Although the events of his life took many unusual turns, he was deep down a sensitive and obviously a confused man. He was only 14 months older than me, so in my house, we watched Michael and the Jackson Five on The Ed Sullivan Show and followed his career for many years. He had a great voice and some amazing moves. He was awesome on his LP ‘Thriller’ and the video was just as neat-a big event at the time.
I’m thinking about his three children and what will happen to them. I hope their future was planned.
I’d like to remember Michael like this:
Jun20
Good Times
We got back from the Boz*Scaggs concert a little bit ago. It was nice to hear someone you’ve just listened to first on vinyl and then CD (I recently bought his greatest hits cd). He did play many of his greatest hits-of course! There were a lot of ladies my age (me too) singing along to ‘Georgia’ and the ‘Lido*Shuffle’. I had a copy of older gents sitting next to me, pushing 80. I thought that was interesting. A few rows in front of us, the former football coach for the Eagles, Dick*Vermeil, was sitting. I thought it was a newscaster and Brian corrected me-lol. Anyway, my photos are bad, but I did a 1 minute video of his encore, ‘Lend me a dime’-Brian said it was the first song of his he ever heard-first recorded back in 1969. He mentioned a keyboard player who he first recorded with, Barry*Beckett, had recently past away.
We had a fun time!
Here’s a little video I made to remember the night:
Snippets of Boz – Watch more Videos at Vodpod.
Jun19
Farewell to Gary
Gary Papa, one of Philly’s finest news people, the ABC sportscaster, lost his 5 yr battle with prostate cancer today. He was only 54. I’m so glad I have this photo of him with his great pal news anchor Jim Gardener. They were waiting for the World Champion Phillies to arrive at the Citizen’s Bank Park, Oct. 31, 2008.
From Wikipedia
In April 2004, he revealed to viewers that he had been receiving treatment for prostate cancer and lost his hair as a result. He continued to work while receiving chemotherapy. Three years later in July 2007, during the 6:00PM Action News broadcast, a teary eyed Gary Papa along with Jim Gardner announced that he once again was going through chemotherapy
Gary lived in Saint Davids, Pennsylvania. His house is an unofficial landmark of Radnor Township. Many curious Philadelphians make the trip down Chamounix Road just to get a look at his house.
Gary Papa died on June 19, 2009 at 2:57 pm at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is survived by his wife, Kathleen, and his two sons Nathaniel and Tucker.
Gary was so enthusiastic about our local teams and always had a big smile on his face. He’ll be sorely missed.
Apr22
Happenings & Happy Earth Day!
Finally got down to my hometown yesterday and my hair looks pretty again-thanks C! Also yesterday, Mom was at the eye doctor who works on the internal regions and she has swelling and a leakage in her left eye. He says it’s probably due to her being borderline diabetic and she needs an office laser procedure to repair that. That will be her 4th procedure in 8 months! Mom needs to be more serious about her eating, especially eating candy and sugared drinks. She is going to her doctor tomorrow for bloodwork and to see if she needs to be on medication. In February her blood sugar wasn’t bad (when she had thrush). The doctor yesterday said the thrush was probably from her diabetes. While there we went out to dinner. The restaurant up the road from her was always a favorite and was bought by two handsome Greek guys. They remodeled it and renamed it. This was our first time there and it was good. I got 1/2 rack of ribs-I like when the meat falls off the bones-these really didn’t. Mom had pork chops which she liked. They also give you a little pitcher of whatever you are drinking.
We went back to Mom’s and my brother Don was there playing with the puppy. I ‘fixed’ both of her vacuums-they were just all stuffed to the gills with paper, etc. that Kelsey had shredded.
I’m suffering with my upper back-think I have a nerve issue-from gardening on Saturday (leaning over a gazillion times) and then walking the dog and lifting the heavy vacuum didn’t help. I’ll be using the heating pad a few times.
I got this is my email-
Thanks for following! love, yoko IMAGINE PEACE: Think PEACE, Act PEACE, Spread PEACE http://www.IMAGINEPEACE.com
Yoko Ono / yokoono
I saw that Yoko Ono was on Twitter and it said ‘personal message’-so how cool is that! They can reply on their cells or computers.
Twitter is pretty neat!
I added a widget on the left with my Twitter updates.
Apr19
Tweet tweet
I’m curious like a kitty-that’s why I like them so much. I went over to ‘Twitter’ and signed up. It’s pretty interesting, especially to see what the celebs who are on there are saying. Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore (Ashton’s wife), Ellen DeGeneres and Jimmy Fallon have really been into Twitter, so I am following what they are saying. I have actors, cooks and comedians-and even the President and he is following me (should I be scared?) Anyway, I see I have some new followers and I will see if I want to keep them. Of course if anyone in blogland twitters, I’ll follow you. ; )
Not much new since our busy day of yard work yesterday. Brian had a tick on him, a larger one that he’s glad he felt crawling in his head-ugh!
Sean has a virus or something-started with a headache yesterday and he’s a bit feverish, though feels better. He’s gone to college up there for almost two years and this is the first time he’s been ‘blah’ sick. He may go to the infirmary tomorrow, but if it’s a virus, it will have to work it’s course. He went to church last night and to the store today, so he’s getting around.
We’re expecting lots more rain, so I will have to make a nice dinner since I wimped out and went to KFC tonight for their new grilled chicken. It was a bit dry this time around, but their food is definitely better.
I’ll be getting my hair done on Tuesday instead of tomorrow. Hope to get to Trader Joe’s that day too.
Collages & Creative Goodness 