Once there was a girl...
I'm a lady who loves Earl Grey tea, skeletons, and stilettos. Also slightly obsessed with tentacles. Wrap your mind around that.
Enjoy the brevity and tweet me @thegirlblogger ~ A
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Alabaster Coffee + Bullfrog Brewery (Taken with instagram)
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Taken with instagram
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secret strawberry spot… in temecula… rivals Harry’s berries half the price… (Taken with instagram)
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Recent work by Marco Mazzoni.
Yesterday I engaged in conversation online about the apparent sudden appearance of the LA Times paywall.
I received two very different responses from the outlet..
One was the standard ‘see-ya later’ @ reply from @LATimesSocialMedia and the more sensible response via DM from @LATimesCityDesk.
Read more after the tweets…
The banter between @cgreathouse afterwards opens up a few questions… Is it worth alienating social media users to force a paywall this late in the game? We’ve seen many publications go this route, but it seemed (at least to me) to appear for the LA Times rather suddenly.
Do you think they’ll make more money forcing an online subscription than ad revenue? Should they adopt the open policy that links out via email, Facebook, Twitter are open, but subsequent click throughs require a paid account? At the moment they offer 15 free page views, I assume they track that through cookies, so I guess between my work and home computers/devices I could bump up my available pages to more… but what a ton of work!
As Corrie points out, you can still follow your favorite LA Times feeds and use their headlines to search out coverage from other news outlets… talk about a slap in the face, but still a viable solution many people will use.
What are your thoughts on the ever growing issue of keeping actual news and news outlets afloat in an era that demands it for free? You can access so much information on the web for free, but the more we get pushed to visiting blogs that are opinion without a hint of journalism what is the cost?
Ok. I love this kid so much. Anyone want to take a road trip on Sunday to play at Caine’s arcade??
This is unbelievably wonderful.
I can’t express how much I love this.
(via pbump.net)
I love kids.
This kid rules.
Oh. My. Word.
This ended up in my inbox from my bff @essiedee because she knew I’d swoon and pass out when I saw this video of Matthew Bomer singing a song I love. Did take me a bit to figure out the the men are brothers, I’m so lost on where Glee has gone in the last few seasons… but man, I might have to catch up to see more of Matt singing!
Ah… the crush just continues…
This is every morning when I sleep at my parent’s house.
When I begin to stir in the morning, Babydoll tries to perch on my stomach, back or even my hip if I’m on my side. If she gives up she typically works towards my chest and nuzzles my shoulder. That’s the sign she wants me to open the covers and she’ll curl up under the sheets, in the crook of my armpit, with her adorable chin on my arm.
So damn cute.
laughed out loud at this. so fucking adorable.
Little dog trying to sleep on big dog
(via emetiki)
Oh yes. All those times I thought I’d return to #YEG…..
It’s pictures like this that keep me in LA ;)
(via April’s Snow Storm | Flickr - Photo Sharing!)
Crazy!
Via @creaturecomfort
Ok Go never disappoints with interesting music videos… this one is colorlicious! Thanks to Ez for the head’s up!
My soul just came alive when I saw this….
(via insanitiki)
White - Frank Ocean (@Andross Cover)
Andross’ voice never gets old. So beautiful!
Bought and rocking out. Love The Guild and love Jed Whedon more. I could hear his guitar licks before I knew he cowrote the song with Felicia.
That is the great question floating around the twitterverse today… what would you do if you won big with the lotto?
First off I’d hire a lawyer and an accountant. Having that amount of money will honestly be a headache and a heartache. As long as people know you have money they begin to treat you like you’re a charity, hence the accountant and lawyer…
I’d pay off my debt.
Invest in my retirement.
Pay off my parent’s home and make sure they’ll be able to retire comfortably.
Set up scholarship funds for my the special kids in my life.
Then there’s those superficial things like upgrade my wardrobe and vehicle, but that won’t be the first thing I’d spend on…
I honestly can say I’d still work and I’d probably give a huge chunk of the money to charities for issues I hold near and dear to my heart.
Good luck if you bought a ticket!
Tonight someone out there in California will win $640 million, and I’m hoping it’s me! Sure, it’s the first time I’ve ever bought a ticket, and I only bought five quick picks but that’s not going to stop me from spending the money in my head. So here goes, after I split the money with my immediate family and my boyfriend, pay off all my bills, donate to my favorite charities, hire someone to invest my money, and buy a chauffeur and in-house nurse for my folks and a new house…I’d buy/do the following:
1) Travel the world (yawn, I know but it’s always something I’ve wanted to do)
2) Live in a different country every year and learn the native language.
3) Live off my winnings and blog and freelance write.
….That’s it. That’s all I can come up with. How would you spend your mega millions?
My Vegas is Palm Springs.
Hot weather, fabulous pools, quiet bars, great restaurants and a never ending parade of people watching just an hour’s drive away from me…
Plus it’s without the hassle of nutso young people, cigarette smoke, and the ding ding ding of slot machines [unless you want to cruise by one of the Indian casinos].
Perfection in a weekend retreat.
(Let me guess you love Vegas? That’s cool bro. For realsies? I don’t.)
The truth is I never really did. I don’t gamble, I don’t like hangovers, and I’d much rather throw money at champagne and a T-Bone than strippers of the same name.
Telling people you don’t like Vegas is like telling someone you don’t have a Facebook profile. Their left eye and right side of their cheek have an unvoluntary twitch and they unconsciously take a step back and look at you sideways. Did I hear that right? He doesn’t like Vegas? I mean what’s wrong with this guy? Does he have something to hide? No, that can’t be it. Maybe he used to party too hard back in the day. Yea that’s probably it. He looks normal enough.
It’s not like I punched your baby, I just don’t like Las Vegas…. [read more]
I can’t help but giggle. The idea of rap coming out of Edmonton is just so cute.
But I got to admit, it’s a catchy beat and the kid does a decent job… you can’t discount music if there’s hard work behind it, even if it comes from an unlikely place.
Jeff Eckert’s video for local rapper KidKnapp:”Better Than I Ever Been”
Some awesome shots of Edmonton, dumpster cameos, and a shout out to Millwoods!
Oh yes! It features some of my favorites :)
NPR Name Song (Billy Joel Parody) (by timeboner)
I exclaimed the very same sentiment last night when we returned home from dinner and discovered a kitty threw up on the couch. There are miles of hardwood and tile in this house and only one couch. Oi.
That would piss me off.
Having a sales person cruise by and ask if I needed any help or recommendations is fine, but to assume I don’t know what I’m buying would make me want to give the guy a swift kick… and I’d tell him “Don’t you know who my friends are?!”
via slackmistress:
I bought this & the chicory stout (both delish) at Whole Foods today. The checkout guy asked if I was getting it for my husband. WTF? (Taken with instagram)
