Christine is an Avenger of Sexiness. Her Superpower is helping Hot Mamas grow their Confidence by rediscovering their Beauty. She lives in the Heights in Houston, Texas, works as a boudoir photographer, and writes about running a Business of Awesome. In her spare time, she loves to knit, especially when she travels. She & her husband Mike have a food blog at Spoon & Knife.
With every wedding invitation envelope that I lick, I can’t help but think of the toxic envelope glue that killed Susan on Seinfeld. My only comfort is knowing that we didn’t buy these invitations from the back of the book, they weren’t discontinued, and they probably aren’t toxic. I hope.
But if I die, you will all know that it was the glue from the invitations. *hack, cough, hack*
What a wonderful day it is! You know why? Because it’s Mike’s birthday!
Happy Birthday, sweetie!
Kathy & Tom, Kenny & Elaine, Mandy, Matt, and Kymberlie came over tonight for dinner. The topic of movies that we have seen and haven’t seen came up. I was just informed that they are filming a remake of Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. For the record, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is one of my all time favorite movies. I love that movie. I love the cheesy ’70s aspect of the movie. It simply rocks.
On that note, a remake of that movie is just WRONG. I don’t care if Johnny Depp is in it. I don’t care if Tim Burton is doing it. It is wrong, wrong, wrong.
By the way, you know you have a house full of bloggers and blog readers when there is laughter over the fact that you are immediately leaving the room to blog about the wrongness of this remake.
The movie topic came up, by the way, because Jason watched Tron tonight for the very first time.
Easter is here, and I giggle every time I see the Peeps for sale at the store. Some people do more than laugh though. Some people are inspired to work with the Peeps, to make them be something greater, to show them their true destiny … The Lord of the Peeps!
If I had more time, I would design a skin devoted to the Hobbit Peeps. Peeps rule! (Just don’t eat them – they taste nasty!) [via Geek Love]
I spotted at megnut that Kinja, “a new blog reading tool,” is live today.
I have several issues with this.
1. Kinja? What kind of name is Kinja? You actually expect me to remember that?
2. What does it do that my RSS news reader of choice doesn’t do for me already? (Mmmm… RSS. RSS is goooood…)
3. What does it do that other services such as BlogLines can’t do for me already? (At least I can remember that URL.)
4. Is it getting press attention from the NY Times today (password required, free) just because Nick Denton is the president of the company?
5. Can you only read excerpts of blogs through it? Because I really hate only getting experts. I have even evangilized in the past to get people to beef up their RSS feeds to full posts if not full posts with comments. Excerpts annoy me.
6. Back to my original point, and the question others seem to have too (even Nick admits it’s not original) – is it all just hype? What can Kinja (ugh, I hate that word) do for me?
I just don’t get it. Can someone please explain why I should want or need this? I’m all about new gadgets, but Kinja just doesn’t seem to have what I need.