Skymall Birthday Wishlist


I love to shop, but not in the traditional “Let’s go to the mall and have a girly shopping spree heyday” kind of shopping. As soon as I was old enough to help my mom clip coupons, I gained mad discount bargain shopping skills. I am true to my brand loyalties, despite buying most of […]

Meeting Keane, and other brushes with stardom in 2009


If you’ve read my blog for any amount of time, you know that I love going to concerts, symphonies, operas, plays, and musicals. My favorite concert of 2009 was Keane at the Hollywood Palladium (with Mat Kearney as the opener). My “bosom friend” Esther treated me to my ticket for my birthday, and we met […]

Cutetulturechic’s Twexicon


My social networking habits seem to go back and forth between Twitter, blogging, MySpace, Facebook, and a couple Ning sites like Pilot Wives Club. Currently, Twitter is my online vice of choice. If you are unfamiliar with the ins-and-outs of Twitter, here’s a handy guide to understanding the 140-character microconversation phenomenon. Many words are melded […]

1992 Music Groups I Liked


Musical Groups/Singers I Like (in no particular order) 1992 Boyz II Men, Color Me Badd, Arrested Development, Extreme, Eric Clapton, Whitney Houston, Shai, Michael W. Smith, Jon Secada, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Amy Grant, M C Hammer, They Might Be Giants, Michael Bolton, Roxette, Richard Marx, Bryan Adams, House of Pain, Mariah Carey, Gloria Estefan, […]

Spartan Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band


During my Junior year at Murray High School, I was a part of the school’s television production crew, SpartanVision (aka SVTV). Each morning we had to be in Mr. Pond’s room at 6:30 am to prepare for the broadcast at the end of 1st period. We had rotating responsibilities each week: camera, editing, script writing, […]