Aj Michalka is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and musician which real name is Amanda Joy Michalka. she's born on April 10, 1991, so how old AJ for 2011 ? she's 20 years old now. AJ has a twin sister, Aly Michalka. here her pictures.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
How old Aj Michalka
Aj Michalka is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and musician which real name is Amanda Joy Michalka. she's born on April 10, 1991, so how old AJ for 2011 ? she's 20 years old now. AJ has a twin sister, Aly Michalka. here her pictures.
Glass Beach
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Glass Beach is a beach in MacKerricher State Park near Fort Bragg, California that is abundant in sea glass created from years of dumping garbage into an area of coastline near the northern part of the town.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished"
I didn't totally understand until our Dinner In The Boys Fort & a board member mentioned the policy, the organization- Our House is 100% operated & staffed by volunteers. This mean that the entire $800 raised that evening will go to services for people with HIV that make Our House their refuge. All our expenses, hard work, creativity did not go to paying a CEO's $200,000 yearly salary. I am pleased about that information.
The setting in the Boys' Fort
Even with our choosing the date & the hour, & with the info published in the catalogue, The Husband & I had it in our heads that the event started at 6pm. We were mistaken. When the first guests arrived a few minutes after 5pm, the Husband was naked & dripping wet from a shower & I was sneaking a slug from the vodka as I worked on the ingredients for the opening cocktail.
Our hero checking out final details...
The entire evening felt a bit harried & off rhythm, but I believe the guests didn't take note or pick up on the vibe. I was honest with them & the guests offered to drive around for an hour. I insisted not.
It was a pitch perfect evening, high 70s with a breeze, interesting mix of personalities, The Husband's dazzling dinner, my urbane & witty wine choices & a through line of strangers who are friends for an evening, lives colliding to help others.
The scrolls tied with twine are the menus & I made a custom mixed CD for each guest, also placed on the table, because & I am generous & talented & giving. Sometimes I give until hurts.
Giving a gift is so superior in the reward than receiving a gift. I will count the evening as a special 4 hours in my considerable lifetime.
This is the pass-through that serves as the bridge from the house to the Boys' Fort.
The event in full swing...
First course, watermelon & shinned cherry tomato in olive oil
& basil vinaigrette
Chilled Cucumber Soup & Ratatouille
I suspect that there is not photograph of the main course, a lemon & asparagus risotto, because of the vodka nipping on the photographers part. Sorry!
This is dessert, coconut ice with black & blue berries.
A guest had emailed The Husband, 24 hours before the event, indicating that she did not partake of flour or sugar. We always prepare a meal for the lowest common denominator, so The Husband scrapped the black pepper biscuits with cashew cream at the last moment & then guest refused the dessert anyway. I was grateful to her, her request cut out a difficult final last course that involved baking.
The Husband informs me that I passed out before the final guests said their good-nights. Note to readers: consider my disposition before inviting me to an event, no matter how well intentioned.
Kate Winslet
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All of this info can be found via the link above! :)
Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on Oct. 5, 1975, in Reading, Berkshire, England. She is an English-born actress and occasional singer. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 2008 movie The Reader. She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Hollywood Foreign Press Association. She can do drama, comedy, period, contemporary. She recieved somewhat large recognition for her role as one of the Dashwood sisters in Sense and Sensibility.
She's also one of my biggest favorite actresses!!
Raised in Berkshire, she studied drama since she was young. Her 2 biggest movie successes have been Flushed Away in 2006, where she did the voice of a rat named Rita, and The Holiday in 2006, where her character switches places with Cameron Diaz's character.
She got her start on TV, on the BBC show Dark Season. Her first movie role was in the Peter Jackson movie Heavenly Creatures, where she won the role over 175 girls to play Juliet Hulme, who helps in the murder of hte mother of her best friend, Pauline Parker(Melanie Lynskey). Winslet noted: "With Heavenly Creatures, all I knew I had to do was completely become that person. In a way it was quite nice doing [the film] and not knowing a bloody thing." Never knew she talked like that, lol!
The following year, she auditioned for the role of Lucy Steele in the movie based on Jane Austen's book Sense and Sensibility. This movie also starred Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman. She instead got the role of Marianne Dashwood. In order to prepare for the role, she had to read Austen-era Gothic novels and poetry, and learn to play the piano to make herself graceful. Director Ang Lee was worried about her getting a little too into the role, so he suggested that she learn tai chi.
In 1997, she starred in the James Cameron movie Titanic, about the ill-fated cruise ship. In the movie, she was to play shy, sensitive 17 year Rose DeWitt-Bukater, a socialite who survives the sinking of the RMS Titanic. In 2004, she starred alongside Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland, based on the life of J.M. Barrie, the man behind the story of Peter Pan. Her role was as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, whose sons inspired Barrie to write Peter Pan.
In 2006, she starred alongside Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Jack Black in The Holiday. In this movie, she plays Iris Simpkins, a society column editor for London-based newspaper The Daily Telegraph, who switches households with Amanda Woods(Cameron Diaz), a workaholic whose company makes movie trailers in L.A. And that same year, she starred in the movie Flushed Away, where she provides the voice of Rita, a sewer scavenging rat who helps Roddy St. James(Hugh Jackman) escape Ratropolis and get back to 'Uptop' as they call it, or Kensington.
On Nov. 22, 1998, she met Jim Threapleton, who she met on the set of the movie Hideous Kinky. They both have a daughter, Mia Honey Threapleton. They divorced on Dec. 13, 2001. After that, she began seeing director Sam Mendes. And shortly after, they married, and had a son, named Joe Alfie Winslet.
She now runs a charity called The Golden Hat, which eliminates barriers for people with autism.
All of this info can be found via the link above! :)
Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on Oct. 5, 1975, in Reading, Berkshire, England. She is an English-born actress and occasional singer. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 2008 movie The Reader. She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Hollywood Foreign Press Association. She can do drama, comedy, period, contemporary. She recieved somewhat large recognition for her role as one of the Dashwood sisters in Sense and Sensibility.
She got her start on TV, on the BBC show Dark Season. Her first movie role was in the Peter Jackson movie Heavenly Creatures, where she won the role over 175 girls to play Juliet Hulme, who helps in the murder of hte mother of her best friend, Pauline Parker(Melanie Lynskey). Winslet noted: "With Heavenly Creatures, all I knew I had to do was completely become that person. In a way it was quite nice doing [the film] and not knowing a bloody thing." Never knew she talked like that, lol!
The following year, she auditioned for the role of Lucy Steele in the movie based on Jane Austen's book Sense and Sensibility. This movie also starred Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman. She instead got the role of Marianne Dashwood. In order to prepare for the role, she had to read Austen-era Gothic novels and poetry, and learn to play the piano to make herself graceful. Director Ang Lee was worried about her getting a little too into the role, so he suggested that she learn tai chi.
In 1997, she starred in the James Cameron movie Titanic, about the ill-fated cruise ship. In the movie, she was to play shy, sensitive 17 year Rose DeWitt-Bukater, a socialite who survives the sinking of the RMS Titanic. In 2004, she starred alongside Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland, based on the life of J.M. Barrie, the man behind the story of Peter Pan. Her role was as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, whose sons inspired Barrie to write Peter Pan.
On Nov. 22, 1998, she met Jim Threapleton, who she met on the set of the movie Hideous Kinky. They both have a daughter, Mia Honey Threapleton. They divorced on Dec. 13, 2001. After that, she began seeing director Sam Mendes. And shortly after, they married, and had a son, named Joe Alfie Winslet.
She now runs a charity called The Golden Hat, which eliminates barriers for people with autism.
Born On This Day- August 10th... Writer, Mark Doty
Mark Doty is my favorite poet, in a league with Walt Whitman & Frank O’Hara. Elegant, unflinching, sometimes melancholy, his imagery haunts me. I appreciate the duality of the rural & the urbane in his work, indeed, he describes the plant life of a vacant city lot. Like the poet, as a gay man I have always sought out a life in an urban center while being enchanted by a cabin at the beach. I have attempted to take my city lot & make a place for nature. A tiny attempt at both worlds.
Doty: "I've always been a poet who wrote about urban life because I love the layers & surprises & the jangly complexities of cities. I feel at home in cities, being a gay man. It's a place of permission & possibility. In 1990, I moved to Provincetown. I also love this landscape of salt marshes, beaches & dunes, but I had to write about it in a different way. In the marsh, there is no narrative. All that happens is that a bird flies by, the tide comes in & goes out."
His poetry also addresses the artifice & the natural: "I play around with the distinction between art & nature, the real & the false. My experience often feels pretty seamless. . . I've always been drawn to artifice & the beauties of surface and shadings and tone. A lot of the process of development is figuring out how to be all of yourself in a poem. How do you let your love of wigs & make-up, your sense of humor, your anger find its way into the poem?"
My husband & I have lived with, loved & buried 3 dogs. Just this past week we lost a canine friend of an important player in our lives, a dog loved as if she was our own. Doty’s poetry collections have altered my point of view & his language has transported me. But, it is a work of prose that has moved me the most. I read his lovely Dog Years: A Memoir in 2 sittings, ironically taking a break only to walk my terriers. A meditation on life & loss & the method that grief squeezes into your life & never lets go, Doty tells of the life he shared with his 2 dogs as he experiences the decline & death of a partner from HIV, & how the canines move & affect a new relationship with a new love & future spouse.
How many ways have all my dogs had a profound affect on how I have dealt with the heights & valleys of my life & my 30 year marriage? The Husband & I have had a dog, usually 2, for nearly all our time together. At one point, I think we stayed a couple because of the dogs.
In Dog Years, Doty, in an improbable decision, adopts a dog as a companion for his dying partner. Beau is a large golden retriever, possibly abused & in need of love & companionship. Beau is made part of the family, paired with Arden, another retriever, & Doty’s partner- Wally. Beau responds well to his new life, & bounces back to life. The 2 dogs become Doty's best friends, comfort, & the reason to keep going on the worst of days. The canines’ moxie, loyalty, & love give him hope when all else fails.
Dog Years is a moving & intimate memoir with profound meditations on the life we share with animals & the lessons they teach us about life, love, & loss. Doty gives me a view of the vulnerability of dogs, how they rely on us, & the positive outlook they bring, & the gift of unconditional love. Dog Years is unsentimental, but intensely, mournfully, movingly affecting. We all will have to deal with loss. This book will help just a little bit.
The very handsome Mark Doty’s work has been honored by the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award &, the T.S. Eliot Prize. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers at the New York Public Library. He is a professor at the University of Houston. Doty lives in NYC, Fire Island, & Provincetown with his equally handsome & talented husband- writer Paul Lisicky.
We are the same age, along with a love of men, & dogs, Mark Doty & I are both bloggers. I don't impy that we are in the same league & now I must sign off. Larry, Lulu & Junior are waiting for their morning walk.
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