Two SATC tix – for the 1st showing – up for grabs God Girl really should check her schedule before she makes plans … Last night, GG went online, all plan-tastic and smart, and bought two tickets to the 12 midnight THURSDAY MAY 29 show at the LAKE THEATER in OAK PARK,IL for the SEX AND THE CITY movie. Great idea! Except for the fact that GG’ll be in New York City and not so much near the movie theater... Read more

Math. Obama Declares Bid is “Within Reach” (NYT) Obama Takes Delegate Majority (Washington Post) TRANSCRIPT OF OBAMA’S SPEECH IN IOWA LAST NIGHTYou know, there is a spirit that brought us here tonight – a spirit of change, and hope, and possibility. And there are few people in this country who embody that spirit more than our friend and our champion, Senator Edward Kennedy. He has spent his life in service to this country not for the sake of glory or... Read more

Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall, but You go on and on … ROYALTYBy Luci Shaw He was a plain manand learned no latin Having left all gold behindhe delt out peaceto all us wild menand the weather He ate fish, bread,country wine and God’s will Dust sandalled his feet He wore purple only onceand that was an irony Read more

Please pray for Ted Ted Kennedy is one of the men I admire most, and has been all my life. He’s a lion of a man, a fighter for the least of those and now, you can be sure, for himself. Please join me in remembering Ted to his Creator. — Cathleen Kennedy has malignant tumor; prognosis is uncertain at best (Boston Globe)US Senator Edward M. Kennedy has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, his doctors said yesterday, and... Read more

GODSTUFF INDIANA JONES AND THE BLOCKBUSTER OF DOOM Doom is such a marvelous word. While not exactly onomatopoeic, it almost sounds like the emotions the word is meant to evoke. Destruction. Apocalypse. Judgment Day. The resonance of doom’s vowel — especially if drawn out and intoned deeply a la James Earl Jones — echoes the way the notion of doom makes us feel. Nervous. It’s no wonder apocalyptic themes are so popular in contemporary film, including what’s set to be... Read more

The zip code of the mysterious Keep juggling, Fleishman. Read more

Seventy-five THOUSAND people According to Obama campaign estimates, a record crowd of 75,000 people showed up today to hear Barack Obama speak in Portland, Oregon. That’s just extraordinary. That’s a small city. Holy smoke. Read more about it HERE and HERE Read more

skin. “It is the essence of being human. It speaks of the fact that my humanity is caught up and is inextricably bound up in yours. I am human because I belong. It speaks about wholeness, it speaks about compassion. A person with Ubuntu is welcoming, hospitable, warm and generous, willing to share. Such people are open and available to others, willing to be vulnerable, affirming of others, do not feel threatened that others are able and good, for they... Read more

St. Arnold, Patron of Iraqi Hardbodies? By Amal Jayasinghe (AFP)BAGHDAD — Bodybuilding buffs in Baghdad worship at a temple to the Terminator — California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger — in a country where the term survival of the fittest can take on extra resonance. On a dusty side street in the once posh Karrada area of central Baghdad is a single-storey brick house where wannabe beefcakes gather to emulate the star of the 1980s Terminator movies and dream of having a... Read more

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