Amazon.com has a feature called a wish list. I use it to store things I want to buy until I scrounge up enough money to get them. But you can use it to find something cheap to get me for Christmas that you can be sure I'll be thrilled to get! :-) Go to my actual blog page if you're reading this in email or a reader and it's on the right hand side at the top. Or click here. Why do I do this? In the past some people have spent gobs of money on stuff I really didn't want, or gave me gift cards or cash (we all know that's not much fun), sometimes for more $$ than I feel comfortable spending on books and stuff, this way everyone comes out ahead, I get a book I really want to read and whoever is giving me a Christmas gift doesn't have to shell out a bunch of cash. Win win. :-)
I didn't make our local Tea Party , but it pulled hundreds of people as well... Tea, anyone? from Father Hollywood by Father Hollywood Like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, the Hollywoods enjoyed a tea party this past Wednesday. "Tea party" (wink wink). Nothing subversive about sipping a little Darjeeling, eh wot? Nothing to see here, Miss Napolitano. Anyway, our local festivities were held at Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie. There were literally thousands of people crammed into the neutral ground (though on that day, the ground was anything but...), as cars and trucks poured by the busy boulevard laing on their horns in support. Here are pictures. And like every such gathering in our environs, there was even a brass band and an improptu "second line" parade. It was a "party" after all. But it was a party with a serious reason. The crowds were so overwhelming that it was hard to hear the speakers, and unfortunately, we did have a fe...
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