rehna June 30th, 2008
I saw Wanted on Friday night. The original plan (between my bf and I) was to go to dinner and an art gallery exhibit with our spouses. Neither spouse was in favor of our plan and came up with every excuse to not go. After numerous years of doing what they want and our ideas getting poo-pooed we were ticked. We hatched our own plan to tick them off. Both men being action, gun toting film lovers we decided that we would go see Wanted….without them. heh heh. Continue Reading »
rehna June 29th, 2008
Nothing ROCKS a stadium like a blast of geetar! Oh yeah, Queen sans the late lamented Freddie Mercury brought the Nelson Mandela birthday concert to life on Friday evening in Hyde Park. Continue Reading »
rehna June 27th, 2008
First the bad news: Hong Kong is FAR. Certainly from England and the USA where some of you live. It’s an expensive place. It has more Starbucks than can possibly be good for any society and it is real consumerville where brand names rule.
Oh, and June is a time for typhoons! Yep, when your hotel tells you not to venture outside you’d better listen to them and not decide to take a ferry trip on a choppy South China Sea towards mainland China. Surely only the foolish would do that huh?????
Or the very brave!! Continue Reading »
rehna June 27th, 2008
Mongol, the rise of Genghis Khan, a Kazakhistan/Russian production has ‘epic’ writ large across virtually every scene. It’s a huge, sweeping colossus of a film which charts the early years of the man who went on to rule half the world. Continue Reading »
rehna June 27th, 2008
‘I write weird stories. I don’t know why I like weirdness so much’ – Haruki Murakami’s take on his own work is probably as apt a description as any fan could give of this celebrated and fiercely private Japanese writer. Continue Reading »
rehna June 20th, 2008
A symposium on female celebrity hosted by UEA will analyse the new gender dynamics of fame and the seeming popularity of stories about women we love to hate. Continue Reading »
rehna June 16th, 2008
With the price of a gallon of unleaded gasoline hovering around $4.00, the driving and consumption habits of Americans have come under scrutiny lately. I’d first like to point out that in most of Europe and Japan, gasoline is even more expensive. The highest price is in Holland, where a gallon of gas costs the equivalent of $6.73. The actual gasoline only costs $2.61; the rest, $4.12, is tax. The tax on gasoline in Holland is 158%. While gas prices in the US are higher than they’ve ever been, we still have only about a 15% tax on gas – the lowest of any industrialized country. Continue Reading »
rehna June 14th, 2008
Last year I wrote an article in which I paid tribute to a woman named Darlene. In that piece I mentioned my dog, Tony; he was a Shetland Sheepdog, and was as loyal and intelligent as a dog can be. He died at age fourteen of old age, and I still miss him. I was thinking about him this morning, as I do every day, and I started to think about his sister, Margie. Continue Reading »
rehna June 12th, 2008
To protect the identities of these families, NPR has used only first names and has changed one of the children’s names.
It wasn’t until Halloween when her 2 1/2-year-old son decided to dress as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz that Carol began to worry.
Bradley had always had a preference for girls’ things. From his earliest days he had chosen girls’ dolls, identified with female characters and gravitated toward female children. But Carol had never thought to care. As far as she was concerned, it wasn’t a loaded gun; it wasn’t a lit cigarette. She says it had really never crossed her mind to say, “I’d really rather you played with a truck.”
Then, on Halloween, the calculus began to tip. Continue Reading »
Peach June 9th, 2008
So the fruit of my ovaries called, “whats up?” I replied “I’m going to go hurt my feelings”. “Oh going to buy a bathing suit?” Only another female would understand.
Just poke my eyeballs out now. I made it last year without buying a bathing suit even though I went to the pool several times a week. The tot that hangs with me stayed in the baby pool. Not so this year. I can’t even remember the last time I thought about putting on a bathing suit much less wearing one. Continue Reading »