N.M.H. and Carousel Ponies

You know in the movie Peter Pan where people clap really, really hard and Tinkerbell comes back to life and reunites [with Peter Pan]?

I'm hoping that by voting = clapping for Neutral Milk Hotel.

http://pitchfork.com/news/35219-neutral-milk-hotel-want-you-to-help-them-save-a-carousel/

Save the carousel!

Swap-o-rama

Ok I stole this from Banana Randoms, but I LOVE it.

http://www.adidas.com/campaigns/campaigns_nz/content/popup/index.asp#

No reason whatsoever that I found this site...

Oh boy I'm almost afraid to post this.

Like Fmylife but actual text messages.

And then I don't feeeeeeeeeel so bad...

I simply remember my favorite things - er (work-ish) related sites...

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/

The best thing about his blog (besides the actual posts) is all the stuff on the side that shows just how connected you can be.
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http://www.webbyawards.com/
Yup, it's an awards site, but it's brought me such gems as the "Dumpster", "The world's first neverending website", "5 Blogs before Lunch", and "Post Secrets".
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Picture sharing sites...and editing sites

http://www.flickr.com/
- Search the Creative Commons section and borrow from artists who are willing to let you share their work...it's really cool to see what a normal "Connections" search will unearth.

More effective than the standard clip art?? You tell me...

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http://www.picnik.com/

Edit your photos in tons of different ways...and take a lesson from them in how they are recognizing the fact that there are other social media sites out there with picture functionality and take advantage of them...

I had a dream my life would be...

I'm am a crazy, crazy person. I actually cried, real tears, while watching this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

"Unless you live under a rock, you know about the Scottish woman who has taken the industrialized World by storm: Susan Boyle."

I think, for me, it awakened in me the desire to do something with my life before life kills "...the dream I dream".

Below is quoted from www.sfgate.com:

But who Susan Boyle is as a person is a story of a good simple woman winning over a bad, complicated society. Ms. Boyle is 48 years old, unemployed, and she says never married or "kissed" which means she's a virgin. I do not laugh here because I think of her more as pure rather than question anyone's desire for her or perceived lack of same.

The Worldwide sensation lives in her childhood home in West Lothian, one of 32 council areas in Scotland, and which has Grapevine, Texas as its sister city according to Wikipedia, meaning they can claim her too.

Ms. Boyle cared for her mother until the elder Boyle's passing in 2007 at the age of 91; her father passed away 10 years before. Living alone, Susan attends church each weekend and it was there that her singing talent developed, and where her late mother encouraged her to sing, but Boyle had reportedly stopped singing and did not know how she would do on that Saturday night she shocked the World.

Susan's life has not been one without pain. Sadly, she was starved of oxygen at birth and has a learning disability because of the accident. Ms. Boyle says she was abused and teased by classmates, and reportedly the scars of their comments remain to this day.

Who's laughing now?

[Not me, I'm crying, although you can hardly tell]

A Sad Day in TV

Whoa, I realize that I'm a day late to the game, but WHAT? Kutner committed suicide on House? He was my favorite. That was unexpected.

http://www.fox.com/kutner/




I mean, it is because he is going to work at the White House. But still. TV won't be the same.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/04/07/2009-04-07_actor_kal_penns_surprise_suicide_on_hous.html

For those who can still ride an airplane for the first time...

This is absolutely incredible.

There was a time for sure that I thought I could do slam poetry. I had seen a couple slam poetry shows or events. I had read winning poetry slam entries. I had even started recording my own slam poetry verses on my walks home from improv classes. [I'm sure that was a site to behold...this crazy girl walking home at 11 pm at night talking to herself into her cell phone...repeating phrases that were off-slant rhyme.]

But this, this is absolutely incredible. And I can't really say that too many times. And it blows my mind so far out of the water that I will never even think that I could be a slam poet again.

SP: Religion is …
AM: A house with no walls that can still stand. A manual for a telephone to God.