ahhhhhh, swwweeeet second place. love it! isn't my trophy puuuurteeee?
best end of season hurrah: niners 27, redskins 24. game ending field goal sealed the deal and singletary is back as our official coach next season. too bad singletary didn't start his stint a few games earlier. sigh! those arizona cardinals, so don't deserve to represent the NFC west. they aren't going into the playoffs with the momentum that the niners had at the end of this season. here's to next season. this faithful can't wait.
second rate sin city: the spirit. it's no sin city but you'll enjoy the visual spectacle you come to expect from a frank miller flick. gabriel macht isn't bad eye candy either. this noiresque graphic novel complete with a femme fatale named sand saref (aka eva mendes) falls short on plot and overall character complexities. still glad i saw it. i can get enough of the black and white scheme peppered with color. 
have been highly anticipating this adaption after hearing that it be an onscreen reunion for kate and leo. i did my homework and read the richard yates novel. it was raw and utterly depressing, but there was something remarkably truthful in it as well. so this meaty material translated brilliantly onscreen by sam mendes (aka mr. winslet). you know a film is good when you come out numb and in need of something to jolt you back into reality. the film was a roller coaster of hope and tragedy elegantly acted by both leads. i felt tugged, emotionally battered and mentally in a fetal position. i'm still in recovery. i can say seeing it on screen, outside the pages of the novel, hit me harder. the film made it achingly more real. i need a hug or a stiff drink.
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must swede: melpo mene. mel introed me to him and she ended up flaking. boy did she miss out. erik was a cutie. first song up and he broke a string early playing "i adore you". he ended up borrowing a guitar from drew of takka takka..jpg)
artist that just gets better: bon iver. okay, i was pretty blown away and i had already had the opportunity to see him pre-blow-up. i wasn't sure if he could up that first time, but he did. wow, oh wow! even though i was seated in the heights of the loge, mike and i were lucky enough to be on the side justin was playing on. justin and gang ran through "for emma" and the new ep "blood bank". this was the
best thing next to a spoonful of sugar: seat upgrade at the new amsterdam theatre for mary poppins. the bff is in town so we hit broadway for mary poppins. i got us balconey seats for what i thought was the evening show. got to will call and no tickets for me. they said i had purchased tickets for the afternoon matinee. i could have sworn i booked the evening show. the kind box office gentleman arranged for us to get in. to my surprise, it was an ahhhhmazing upgrade to the orchestra level. SCORE! turned out i did order the 1pm show. oops! i guess with the magic of disney balconey tickets become orchestra. hurrah! 
niners 24, jets 14. whhaaa what! some people didn't believe the niners could beat the jets, but the faithful don't stop believing. get well mr. gore. we will need you in miami.
operator. when i walk in you chime in with "this is how we do it in brooooooklyn". when we hit park place, you always say "transfer to the path to neeeeeeeeeeeew jeeeeeeersey". today you said something extra special and told me "may the holiday spirit be with you". how yoda of you. i can never run fast enough form the back of the train to see and thank him at my transfer point, so until that day comes i wrote the mta:
here's jac's, which was a lil girl with christmas dreams of lizzy macguire and ballet. check out the giant peering in. 
jac was the winner even though we didn't think there was a prize. look how much jac enjoyed it. 
