http://kikka.posterous.com/these-are-actual-pictures-of-a-wal-mart-in-ch

http://www.caboodleranch.org/About_Us.html

By FRANK RICH

THE glittering young blonde in a low-cut gown is sipping champagne in a swank Manhattan restaurant back in the day when things were still swank. She is on a first date with an advertising man as dashing as his name, Don Draper. So you don’t really expect her to break the ice by talking about bad news. “The world is so dark right now,” she says. “One of the boys killed in Mississippi, Andrew Goodman — he’s from here. A girlfriend of mine knew him from summer camp.” Her date is too busy studying her décolletage, so she fills in the dead air. “Is that what it takes to change things?” she asks. He ventures no answer.

This is just one arresting moment — no others will be mentioned here — in the first episode of the new “Mad Men” season premiering tonight. Like much in this landmark television series, the scene haunts you in part because of what people don’t say and can’t say. “Mad Men” is about placid postwar America before it went smash. We know from the young woman’s reference to Goodman — one of the three civil rights activists murdered in Philadelphia, Miss., in June 1964 — that the crackup is on its way. But the characters can’t imagine the full brunt of what’s to come, and so a viewer in 2010 is left to contemplate how none of us, then or now, can see around the corner and know what history will bring.
This country was rightly elated when it elected its first African-American president more than 20 months ago. That high was destined to abate, but we reached a new low last week. What does it say about America now, and where it is heading, that a racial provocateur, wielding a deceptively edited video, could not only smear an innocent woman but make every national institution that touched the story look bad? The White House, the N.A.A.C.P. and the news media were all soiled by this episode. Meanwhile, the majority of Americans, who believe in fundamental fairness for all, grapple with the poisonous residue left behind by the many powerful people of all stripes who served as accessories to a high-tech lynching.

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has anyone seen Sex in The City 2 yet? Am going Monday with my best friend and want to know what you guys think, for no reason in particular. Will still go even if awful, if only for the clothes (and if only to escape the horrendous news about the oil thing)

http://www.coolestone.com/media/1222/Old_Rock_Star_Songs/

did anyone see this on the Daily Show? Gave me a stitch from laughing so hard http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/13/lewis-black-glenn-beck-ha_n_574659.html

about hair!!!!!http://manolobig.com/2008/05/22/the-big-question-how-long-is-too-long/#respond

I thought it was one of the most delightful, creative, charming films I’ve ever seen.

http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/

tea party signs — made me LOL

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/sets/72157623594187379/

a “video” of long gone San Fransisco — wondering if anyone has a respose to share (other than there seem to be very few women in that world!)http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k