Exhibits and Events

If you are looking for something fun to do this weekend with your kids and are in the Pittsburgh area, Howard Hanna is hosting a miniature golf outing and donating the proceeds to their favorite charity, the Children's Miracle Network.  It's being held at Cool Springs mini golf course and tickets are $10 a person.  It's a great way to spend the day, weather permitting, before it gets too cold and wet to leave the house.  There is a rain date in case the weather turns on us but I haven't looked into when that is.

I'm sure if you were interested in going you could call any of the Howard Hanna offices in the area and they could fill you in with further details.  I know I should have done more research but I just wanted to put it out there while I thought about it since it's only four days away.

Exhibits and Events

So this is the time of year when life gets a little more exciting.  There are events and exhibits to see all over town and the holidays are approaching.  Everyone seems to get out an enjoy life a little more in the fall...well, no, I seem to get out and enjoy life a little more in the fall.  My friend and I went to Phipps Conservatory last year for a night club event they hosted.  Every year, they turn the gardens into a night club equipped with a DJ and food from restaurants all over Pittsburgh.  It's a great night out where you get to walk around and mingle and take in the exhibit.  It's not a bar and you're not stuck at a table in a restaurant if you have energy you need to burn.

This October 22, a Thursday, it will be Club Casa.  The admission is $40 and they give you three drink tickets for the event.  Ishtar, a local band, will be playing their "belly-rock" for people to groove to as they take in the vibe of Phipps on a cool autumn evening.  Nice...  The art on display this year will be the sculptures of Hans Godo Frabel.  Garden glass art is the perfect backdrop for an urban night out in the gardens of Pittsburgh.

Sorry if that all came out as a little cheesy but I LOVE this event and I love Phipps Conservatory.  Actually, I love anything that gets me out of the suburbs.  The web address is down below if you want to check it out.  I obviously highly recommend it.

http://phipps.conservatory.org/exhibits-and-events/featured-event.aspx?eventid=254

And the Winner is...

There isn't much argument that Quentin Tarantino is an excellent writer/director.  However, most people agree that he is pretty much the worst actor alive.  I also agree, but recently while watching Little Nicky, I came to realize that Tarantino's cameo is Oscar worthy.  Okay, that statement was a bit extreme.  If you were to judge Dancing with the Stars by lack of experience going in and then the greatest improvement coming out, then Quentin Tarantino is to acting what Kelly Monaco was to "Dancing."

Self Help

My mom told me that I seem to be grouchy lately.  She's right.  I have been in a bad mood for the past 33 years and it's been punctuated with a few moments of fleeting happiness.  I am sick of tolerating people and I also have realized that maybe I just don't really care for others.  I basically enjoy my family, and the friends who I like the most are the ones that I know the least.  There's less room for disappointment and irritation that way.  The more I get to know most people the more I wish I didn't.

I like my son.  He's funny and sweet and generally well-behaved.  After I had him and he got old enough I also realized that I stopped liking other people's kids.  I have trained mine to be the kind of human being I like and can tolerate for extended periods of time.  There is yelling involved but not as much as when I am around other people's kids and all of the yelling I do inside my head.  Their kids haven't been trained by me, therefore, I usually don't like them.

I have spent several years trying to be nice and be in good moods for the benefit of other people.  When you do that they treat you worse.  I will still pretend to be nice, but just know that internally I am making fun of everyone, equally, and probably also working on a strong dislike for most of the public I have to associate with.  I think what I really want to do is stop discriminating against my friends and family and just start getting angry at them all whenever I feel like it now.  That way, when I decide to go ape shit on some unsuspecting stranger they can rest assured knowing I treated them like they were a part of my own beloved family.  That's special.

Gimme My Money

The latest trend in Hollywood gossip seems to be the subject of tipping.  Apparently, this Jane Adams person ran on a bill and then when her manager called in to pay the check they excluded a tip.  Oh, wait, no, no, she left a $3 tip.  It may as well have been nothing.  Although, in her defense, if I was a 40 year old actress and no one knew who I was, well, it might be a good idea to piss some people off.  It's less embarrassing than a sex tape.

Miley Cyrus is also making headlines for stiffing on a $70 takeout bill.  I mean, I would love to bash Miley, but I don't think takeout is the way to go.  She'll put some slutty pics up on the internet and we can all laugh at her again when that happens.  I'm sure her dad will be counseling her to do something inappropriate soon enough.

Anyway, I'm really not looking to spend time writing about more bad decisions made by the women of Hollywood as much as I just want to pay tribute to one great tipper.  He is famous, tipped incredibly, and treated his waitress, me, well.  Here's to you, Mr. Denis Leary.  He hung out at the nightclub I cocktailed at when I was 20 years old and gave me $150 on a $300 bill.  My uniform consisted of jeans, a t-shirt, and Dr. Marten boots.

Denis Leary will always remain one of my faves and it's pretty much for not being an asshole and giving a great tip.  That's all it takes, people.

Andy Dick

I had so much fun finding the Oz Witch clip that I decided to look for more funny stuff.  Andy Dick was one of my faves when I was younger and I looked and looked for this video a few years ago without finding it.  Today I did.  Andy needs to get a job soon because I am going through Dick withdrawal.

Have a Laugh

My roommate in Los Angeles worked on a parody that combined The Wizard of Oz and The Blair Witch Project.  He played the scarecrow and his name is Ron Repple, Jr.  He is one of the nicest people that I was lucky to be friends with in my short time out there and this video use to make me laugh until I cried.

Here's to you, Ronnie Repple!

Harvey Weinstein is a Big, Fat Asshole

Harvey Weinstein wrote a letter asking Hollywood to unite and sign a petition to keep Roman Polanski from being brought back to the States to face charges for raping a 13 year old girl in 1977.  Harvey Weinstein thinks that since Polanski endured living in a concentration camp and losing his mother to Auschwitz, then, losing his pregnant wife to crazy Charlie Manson and the gang that he should not be accountable for sodomizing a 13 year old girl that looked older than 13.

Yes, he did survive some terrible things but it doesn't make him special and it is a huge slap in the face to people who survived such horrible treatment and came out loving, caring people.  The people of Hollywood should be pissed, too, because they have been getting away with murder for a while now and some judge out there may think it's a good idea to make an example of someone soon.

Oh, and last I checked, feeding someone Quaaludes and booze, then raping them is still rape, Harvey.  Whether you are 13 or 75.  What the both of them really deserve is a bottle full of Rufies and a couple of big fat Hollywood dicks in their mouths to shut them up.

TGIFall

I spent the summer mildly depressed because I am so completely broke.  That's a lie; I was depressed about not having a closet full of awesome clothes.  I gained weight and summer clothes were more revealing than what I was hoping to wear.  That's a lie again.  Since I gained weight, my clothes were more revealing than I wanted them to be.

I couldn't help but notice that if you have nothing to wear in the summer you really have nothing to wear.  I think I made the mistake of giving away all of my summer clothes last winter.  I'm pretty sure I thought summer wasn't going to happen this year; it might be a passing fad, like the cell phone.

Anyway, my point is, fall is the best season for human kind to walk confidently in something that really makes a statement as to who they really are.  I don't have much in my closet but I have a few staples that will make me appear to have some cute outfits.  Skinny jeans.  You have to keep your ass under control for these but if you can do it they are a big bonus.  I have two pairs of boots that look nice and with skinny jeans I can show them off and people get to see I have some kind of taste.  Whether it's good or bad is up to the viewer.

Black turtle necks.  Conservative and terrific.  Black is slimming, which is great, especially in November through February.  When you wear black tops with cute jeans and all you need is to accessorize.  That is much cheaper than going out and buying an entire wardrobe so you just grab some cheap costume jewelry and a pair of flats.  They look great with some flared jeans, too.  And not to be forgotten are my two faves: scarves and handbags.  These two items are clutch in leading people to assume you have style and more than some concert tees and ripped jeans.  Two items more, in my case.

My goal is to embrace the few things that I do have to wear and enjoy my life.  I am the kind of person that can definitely get caught up in wanting more stuff and it's just depressing.  I realized recently that when the weekends come around and I'm home with my family that the clothes and things I wish for on the weekdays just don't matter to me.

I'm really not that vapid that I want to sit here and post about clothes.  I really just want to make a difference in the world.  So, if one person reads this and realizes they they, too, can trick themselves into thinking they do indeed have something to wear, then, I have accomplished my mission.