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Thought I'd share this place where you can buy sarcastic T-Shirts related to the BP/Gulf of Mexico disaster.
I still get sick seeing the oil spew from the uncapped well under the sea. So much went wrong with the drilling process. It wasted lives, natural resource and will leave
a mark on the coastal communities forever.

Buffalo Garden Bloggers--makes me want to visit!

I went to college in Buffalo. Now it's become the garden capitol of....well, at least Western NY.

Check out the Garden Bloggers Buffa10 blog and see if you'd like to fly to the Queen City of lake Erie for this event.

When I went to Buffalo State College I loved taking long walks around the grand Victorian era homes that showcased Buffalo's grand past of some 100 years ago. Some of the bigger homes along the parkways of the west side of the city make a person imagine what families were like back then: many, many off spring, needing lots of space to hang out in the summer time, along tree-lined parkways.

What you'll discover when you read some of the blog posts of sister blogs associated with Garden Bloggers of Buffalo is that there is a movement to do away with boring grass, and fill yard space with anything and everything else that blooms and adds color and, if you will, whimsy, to the space. It's a great hobby to have, and like weeds, it seems to be spreading from neighbor-to-neighbor in Buffalo.

I may just have to visit my old college town for this event, while it's in its infancy, this year. But, I think I'm a year too late. Organizers seem have barely let out word about this event and already they've received dozens of registrations from all over the U.S and from overseas. Gosh. This sounds like so much fun.
Hmmm......

Got the Jay-Z Song in my head.

"Empire State of Mind." Not to be confused with Billy Joel's more bluesy "New York State of Mind."

I am a New Yorker.

Ok. I've lived in Maryland for almost as long as I've lived in New York. But, it's in my skin. It's my identity.

I grew up downstate, went to college in Western NY, got my first job in rural NY, kept getting jobs in the Southern Tier, lived and worked in the Catskills and there you have it.

When I, on rare occasions, drive through NY to visit old friends I feel like I've got an internal compass at work. I don't feel panicky when I make a wrong turn and get lost. I'm OK in NY.

And, that's not even Manhattan.

I love Manhattan. It's a place where I could walk forever. The grid design of the roads is easy to manage. But, I so much enjoy the history of the island when it was still wilderness. It had forest, streams and sandy river beds. It's the one place where man manipulated the landscape for his own comfort. That's above ground Manhattan..where walking around is energizing. The pace is quick. The strides are long.

Anyway...the verse, and Alicia Keyes singing, "In New York" keeps rumbling through my mind.

Be cool.

Posting for posting's sake.

I have been quite busy with career stuff, and home life stuff. Will write more later!

October 2009: Nell Scovell on David Letterman Hollywood: vanityfair.com

October 2009: Nell Scovell on David Letterman Hollywood: vanityfair.com

7 Months since my last post---I'm watching the Yankees.

It's been a long time since I wrote anything on this blog. I've been tweeting and have been keeping those who care updated about my musings that way.

I'm watching Major League Baseball playoffs---who will be the champions of the American League? Well--I don't usually route for the AL. I'm a born MET fan--but, the native New Yorker in me flared up late last week as I turned on the TV and got caught up in the heavily modulated audio of a Los Angeles crowd cheering and then growing eerily silence as the Yanks rallied. And, there's something about that NY logo that just tugged at me. I just couldn't root against it.

I always said that I was a NY chauvinist. Somewhere I have a Polaroid of the NY State license plates that I had on my '87 Hyundai, taken the night before I mailed them back to the DOV in Albany. My husband, at that time, couldn't understand it I think he might get it now. He has the same set of Maryland plates on his car that he's had on all of his cars, since 1985. There's a hologram built into the plates of the date. And, I had to re-paint the letters and numbers black and white out some rusty points last year. It's ok--the lady at the DMV in Silver Spring said it was OK.

So, what's my point? I'm not sure. I suppose I'm writing musings on this lighter fare as writing about H1N1 virus/the Swine Flu is just so, well, so been done before.
It's a worse story than the CDC is leading health departments and others around our country to believe. Women are dying from this illness...pregnant women. The numbers in some states are headline grabbing. But, there's no visuals to support the story. We're not seeing the last breaths of real women like we do of make-believe, fictional characters on TV.

Meantime, I wonder if I'll fall asleep before or after tonight's game at Yankee Stadium ends. I wonder if I'll take a break from the baseball diamond for ABC's Desperate Housewives?

Ciao bellas!

Sadie thoughts...

It's been awhile since I wrote about Sadie. Since then I've made improvements to our yard, deck and have taken a closer look at her medical records. Guess what? My Sadie was born in 1999. She's 10.
Doesn't look a day over 5.
We're very happy with each other.
If I could I'd take photos of me walking the ol' gal with my three boy-dogs, all at once. We're quite the motley crew walking around the neighborhood.
I think Sadie feels at home after a walk.
Don't you?

DC is the new Hollywood?

Earlier this week I'm listening to the commercial news radio station in Washington and lo' and behold, traffic was a mess.

No, it wasn't exploding manhole covers in Georgetown, water mane breaks, utility work, accidents, icy road conditions, that jammed traffic. It was road closers as film crews set up cranes, trailers, and heavy machinery.

Have you been watching the TV series "24"? So many images of DC and the White House.

Well, we do have a darn nice capital. And, now's the time to come and see the place, before the rest of the tourists come for spring break and before the Cherry Blossoms pop open, and destroy sinus from Richmond north through Baltimore.

Come while the museums are less crowded than in the summer months, and before the temperatures and humidity make being outside unbearable.

Or, just watch the best of the place in the movies and TV.

But, frankly, we do need your tourist dollars. And, compared to some places, DC is still a bargain of a vacation place to take the kids. So, come to DC.

See you soon!