My Future Wedding: The Scene of the Crime

I’m not a girly-girl. I didn’t lay in bed at night dreaming about my wedding day growing up. I don’t have a notebook filled with fabric samples and pictures of place settings. I actually don’t even really like the idea of weddings, unless I found someone who I wanted to be with forever and ever – a marriage, not a wedding.

So imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon the courtyard at the Boston Public Library and said to myself, “this is where I’m gonna get married.” Who would have thought? I was just there to pick up my copy of Angel Face: The True Story of Student Killer Amanda Knox by Barbie Latza Nadeau (I’ve been on the waiting list for-EVER).

The BPL courtyard is so Gatsby-esque I don’t know what to do with myself. And all I can see is evening, white lights, and friends and family lining the upper balconies. Plus, the larger more modern buildings loom over the courtyard like their watching over the old-school architecture. It’s humbling and beautiful and I LOVE it. Now if I could only envision a husband…maybe I’ll just marry myself and register at Manolo like Carrie Bradshaw. Done and done.

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Basil Becomes a Brand!

I need to have this T-shirt. NEED.

Well if you didn’t see this coming, you’re an idiot.

The essence of the American Dream – where a person can do anything he/she wants, even beyond their ability and intellect – is Basil Marceaux, and in his quest to become the next governor of Tennessee (which is so close I can taste it!) he has officially become a YouTube phenomenon and a Carroll Family dinner-table classic conversation.

Of course, people out there want to make money off of this meteoric rise to notoriety, and not to be outdone, Zazzle.com has begun selling I’m Basil Marceaux Dot Com T-shirts. First person to buy me one gets my undying love and devotion (or a hug, depending on my mood).

For a mere $31.45 (random) you too can tell America that we need to “stop slavery at traffic stops” and that a real flag has “three stripes.” Do. It. Up. Go Basil, Go Basil, Go-Go-Go Basil!

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Finally!! A-Rod Hits 600th HR

Photo courtesy of the NY Daily News.

You know, I really didn’t think this day would come, because I’m pretty sure that Alex Rodriguez is the biggest headcase to ever play a sport (scratch that, Ryan Sidney definitely takes that honor). But defying my expectations, A-Rod finally hit his 600th career home run (which actually was a two-run homer) at Yankee Stadium this afternoon. The Yanks are playing the Blue Jays, and the homer came off of pitcher Shaun Marcum in the first inning. Derek Jeter was on base.

Yay! for NY baseball! Go Yanks!

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