Bringing Back

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This morning I was reading an excellent talk given by John H Groberg a few years back called “The Power of God’s Love.”  If you saw the movie “The Other Side of Heaven,” you will remember many stories he shares in this excellent talk.  I encourage you to read through it. What impressed me today were [...]

This is a repost of something I wrote back when I started to focus my writing more on my specialty area of coalitions, interest groups, and corruption. Since I didn't have the readership then that this blog has now, and because it is directly relevant to a lot of what I've been writing about in terms of the shifting coalitions of the Left and Right (and also to a post I'm hoping to make in the nex

Good things come in small packages, like Butterfish. I ate these a lot as a kid. My mom would deep fry them and serve them with sweet and sour sauce. It's been years though since I've eaten Butterfish and I had forgotten them till I saw these cute fishes in the Chinese market on Thursday.I drizzled a bit of olive oil on them, sprinkled some kosher salt, and threw them on the grill for about 2 minu

Ashley Olsen looked stunning at the Met’s Costume Institute Gala in New York in a classic black Diane von Furstenberg cut-out dress. But her dress wasn’t the only thing getting attention - Ashley seemed to have either grown out her eyebrows, or filled them in nicely to create a full brow (à la 1980’s). To get [...]

The Terrorist’s cinematographer-turned-director Santosh Sivan is back, this time with a period film titled Before the Rains. Before The Rains was recently launched in New York, and is set during the time of the British Raj in India. The film revolves around an English man involved in an extra marital affair with an Indian woman, played [...]

Here in Asheville, NC, the police department is updating an ages-old concept in their attempts to discourage unwanted behaviour: public humiliation. As was recently announced, Asheville police have begun posting on their website and on the local television channel names and photographs of individuals charged with prostitution or soliciting for prostitution. Now read that again, [...]

Accidentally deleted your Show Desktop Icon on the Taskbar ? Here is a way to get back the “Show Desktop” shortcut onto the Quick Launch Panel on the Taskbar in Windows XP :  Open up notepad or a text editor. Copy-Paste the following lines of code into a new file [Shell] Command=2 IconFile=explorer.exe,3 [Taskbar] Command=ToggleDesktop Then, save the file as showdesk.scf and move it to some place like windows folder. Then, Create a Shortcut to the showdesk.scf file. Finally, just drag and drop the shortcut into your Quick Launch panel or  copy-paste it wherever you want it to be.

It's Thanksgiving break for most! But for those of you not spending the week lying on a beach or zipping down the slopes, I feel your pain. Let's think about something else. T-shirts! Something we can all relate to. If you read this blog regularly, you probably know a little about me, but didn't know that I'm a big fan of great t-shirts. I would wear a t-shirt every day if left to my own devices -- a cool t-shirt that is, not just any old rag. And, my husband Jim, he has a collection of over 100 tees that he'll never part with. T-shirts come in so many different shapes and sizes, designs and styles that they are appropriate for anything these days... including (as always) working out! And, what better way to work out in public than with a 'kick ass' t-shirt.And, if somehow you've lost your collection or your spouse got into (and emptied) your closet, Lisa Kidner and Sam Knee can take you on a road trip down nostalgia lane with their Vintage T-Shirts book, it will remind

So I'm bringing back the dead, why SEO will never die.Search engines exist, and they work. They work based on what webmasters do and don't do when it comes to design and networking. And, because webmasters are optimizing their websites for search engines, and because roughly 90% of all internet users are using search engines practically every day, search engines aren't going anywhere anytime soon.As long as there are search engines, there will be people optimizing their websites to work well with the search engines. As long as there is revenue to be made by optimizing websites, people will be optimizing their websites.Regardless of technologies that might make it easier for search engines to index websites more accurately, or rank websites differently, people will always optimize. You can hate it, you can pretend like it doesn't exist. But search engine optimization is here to stay. The truth is, search engine optimization will never die. Despite what you may have heard, we're bri

According to WWD, Marc Jacobs and Robert Duffy will be honored by the NYU Cancer Institute at a gala at the Mandarin Oriental New York tonight. Last year, the designer's series of T-shirts featuring celebs such as Julianne Moore, Rufus Wainwright and Winona Ryder in the buff sold out, raising approximately $400,000 for melanoma research. Those designs will be reissued along with new shirts, featuring Helena Christensen, Eva Mendes and Heidi Klum — but presumably the one Jacobs gave the International Herald Tribune's Suzy Menkes in Paris won't be among them. The shirts will be available at Marc by Marc Jacob stores, of course, for $35. Last year they were $20 and now they are collector's items!! Please learn from the shirts and protect the skin you're in.

I stumbled upon this fantastic vintage store a few weeks ago. I was in the area looking for a yarn shop, and found Playclothes instead. The place was jam packed with copious amounts of vintage clothing, shoes, hats, jewelry, coats, knick-knacks, and other various pieces of yore. After well over an hour in the store, I finally came away with this gorgeous hat (along with a couple other pieces which you will see later). Black felt and velvet, with a long, swooping feather adornment, this hat is probably late 1930s, early 1940s. I have always loved the polish that a good hat brings to an outfit. I watch episodes of I Love Lucy and gaze lovingly at the hats Lucy buys obsessively, and wondering if I could pull one off. Seeing this hat, I made a decision: I am going to bring back the hat. I was concerned that I would be self-conscious wearing a hat around town. Not a sun hat or a baseball cap, but a hat worn purely for style. I have worn it out several times now, and each time, I ha

It was a little over a year ago that I blogged aboutThe Baseball Bunch. You can read it here if you want. A couple days ago, I received an e-mail from Eric at Just My Show who mentioned his recent podcast to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the show (wow! has it been that long?). Four of the original cast members are featured, who discuss their memories and reflections of the show. They talk about their favorite guests, least favorite guests, behind the scenes secrets of the show’s production and even bash a Wiki originated rumor involving the current Chicago Cubs skipper. I highly encourage you to give it a listen. You’ll even get some info about the future of the show’s possible revival! Tags: Baseball Bunch, Just My Show Share This

Melina posted what she remembered about the 80's, listing things that we once thought we would never forget, and sadly realize we have...So, she passed this torch on to me and this is my contribution to what I remember about the years from 1980 to 1989...Hulk Hogan was fierce, he was the champion. He could defeat any evil foe and didn't pander to the reality TV phenomenon. He was a wrestler along with others like Captain Lou Albano, Rowdy Roddy Piper and Jessie Ventura. Video games were an event. We couldn't sit and play them in the house unless we were going to be satisfied with Texas Instruments version of pong or asteroids. You had to go out to the arcade and play them using real quarters. Coke made a lame attempt to win the soda wars once and for all. It backfired terribly and the "New Coke" was only on the market for a few months but in the history books forever. Being a young girl in the 80's meant you wore more Aqua Net than clothes. Your hair never moved, you were wearing y

Ladies, we all know how much we love our bags.  Our purses.  Our clutches.  Whether we indulge in one that is $$$ at Bloomies or stock up with some chic but less $$$ at Marshalls, we have a thang for these totes.  And of course, our celebrity ladies are no different so starlets like Reese Witherspoon, Rachel Bilson, Keira Knightly, Ghost Rider's Eva Mendes and Jessica Alba are hot this Spring for Ferragamo's Gancio Soft Bag.  It comes in two sizes.  The large comes in a subtle canella (tan) and an olive while the smaller satchel comes in a lemon and black.  This is on the pricey side, but if you're gonna have one bag for the Spring, why shouldn't it be a Ferragamo? Thanks to Swagtime reader Michele. Source:  The Stylephile.com What's your favorite bag for the Spring?  Let us know!