Granted, I cheered as loudly as anyone else when I saw Jon Stewart beating up on Crossfire — the show and its hosts. Still, I had so wanted to experience being in the studio audience at my alma mater this summer when I’m out for a visit. Bummer. 🙁 —– Original Message —– From: Crossfire …

In my first grad school foray — at Arkansas — I took a journalism class on the documentary film form. In it, we had to review a documentary film every week and critique it on several factors, including audio, camera work, writing, framing, etc. I learned tons and loved it; in fact, I nearly took …

Try this. (Thanks, Tommy, for the link!) PS: It’s a lot more fun in “manic” mode. 🙂

North Texas this weekend set some record high temperatures (UGHHH!!!) and little relief seems in my immediate future. Especially since our air conditioner apparently can’t keep up when the outside temp reaches 90 degrees or above. The last two days, by 7 p.m., it’s been upwards of 82 degrees indoors … and if you recall …

Alex recommended these two Internet gems, in testament to our growing-up years in the 80s: The Incredible Hulk’s blog — hilarious Finding The A-team: A Stuffo Experiment — fantastic!

I recently read a very positive review about this program called PDF Converter. It not only converts documents (including scanned ones) to PDFs, but it includes this plug-in that allows you to make a PDF form fill-out-able and sendable online … something Acrobat doesn’t let you do. Best thing is, it’s much cheaper. In 30 …

Check out this blog, which purports to be the blog of Darth Vader. It’s kinda cute.

The answer to last week’s random Liz trivia question was not guessed by anyone… which is to say, the lone guess wasn’t right. 🙁 To recap, the question was: My friend Tommy is the official bestower of nicknames for those who’ve floated through my life as dates. He comes up with some pretty astute monikers …

Saturday, Daniel and I went to the Plano Animal Shelter and brought home Zoe, a nine-week-old kitten who’s since been threatening the other animals at the house. Far from running scared, she’s made a habit of immediately hissing at anything moving towards her on four legs. She’s adorable, though, and adjusting well. See? PS: I’d …

Another decidedly uncontested Newsweek story: Making Magic As early as June a new witch may descend on Salem, Mass. The TV Land cable network is poised to erect a nine-foot, 1,500-pound statue honoring Samantha Stevens — the witch-cum-housewife in the sitcom “Bewitched.” Pending final approval by Salem next week, the bronze behemoth will depict Samantha …