Jordan on Oprah

This little girl, Jordan advising moms on how to talk to their daughters about sex totally made my day. What I know for sure: she's born to be a broadcast journalist. (sorry for the obnoxious ad at the front) She looks like a miniature Ginnifer Goodwin! So cute.

new peeps dioramas

The peeps have landed!
Here's this year's winners, and for review, here's 2007 and 2008. I feel like this year's needs a disclaimer that no peeps were harmed in the making of these scenes but (sniff!) it may not be true.

Lily

Last night I had the very cool opportunity to see Lily Allen at a little club in Denver, they made some limited edition posters for the show which were a nice bonus for 10 bucks!
Review note: Lily's opening band 'Natalie Portman's Shaved Head' was sooooooooooooooooo baaaaaaaaaaaaad. They were wannabe Dandy Warhols/Franz Ferdinands and really should just leave 80's music to the bands who invented it in the 80's. Same goes for the skinny tapered acid-washed jeans (on not skinny men!)

poetic tendencies

I love that April is Poetry Month and poets.org will send you a poem every day this month. This is my third year getting them and I'm always pleasantly surprised on April 1, I wish they would do it every day of the year. I have poetic tendencies and enjoy reading them, maybe I could even edit a book of them, but never was a natural at writing poems myself.

Here's today's.

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by Gregory Orr

An excerpt from How Beautiful the Beloved

This is what was bequeathed us:
This earth the beloved left
And, leaving,
Left to us.

No other world
But this one:
Willows and the river
And the factory
With its black smokestacks.

No other shore, only this bank
On which the living gather.

No meaning but what we find here.
No purpose but what we make.

That, and the beloved's clear instructions:
Turn me into song; sing me awake.