Thousands of people flap their arms and legs in unison, creating angel imprints, during a world record attempt for the most snow angels, in Bismarck, N.D., Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007. Organizers said they believe almost nine thousand people took part in the event. The previous world record was 3,784. (AP Photo/Will Kincaid)
I have been getting accupuncture treatments for weeks now. I am recovering from sciatica which was getting me down, and out of my life. It is incredible if you just take the time to deal with your body when it needs some help.
My accupuncture doctor said during one treatment "oh this leg, she is complaining, she is so tired, she is saying: "you use me so much."
Every treatment I have had so far, has brought me back to feeling like myself and not frankenstein.
I have to admit that I was afraid I would freak out about needles.
If my doctor places a needle in a place that is sore and tender, I sometimes wince, but she just touches the area nearby and I am ok- it's local and temporary. The really good treatments hit points where I can feel the energy sink down-that is so powerful.
Every time I go, my doctor examines me, and knows exactly where to put the needles- it's uncanny.
I am in bliss after lying there with the needles for 30 minutes.
I am so happy that I trusted myself to try this, and that I found a really great doctor.
Ok, this investigation with the Hell's Angels is getting way out of hand. Last week a car with a loud speaker announcing if anyone in the neighborhood has seen anything to come forth to the NYPD.
Listen, I am a neighbor of the big red machine and these guys are great neighbors!
I don't belive for one minute that they had anything to do with the beating of Roberta Shalady.
I still feel as I did when I moved in to the neighborhood in 1994 when the NY Times asked me to quote on the 1994 Clubhouse verdict
I do not feel intimidated by the Hell's Angels- they have been guardians of this street since I have lived here AND I AM A WOMAN!
There is alot of traffic on 3rd street, pedestrian and vehicle- the hell's angels literally keep the peace in an orderly way, like neighbors, I do I think that anyone who tries to start anything with them is just stupid- and believe me I have seen people start shit with them and get at the very least a verbal assault.
I do not know anything about the events surrounding Roberta Shalady's attack, but I do find it hard to believe that she was thrown out on the street in front of the clubhouse by hell's angels inside the clubhouse. It's not easy to obtain entrance inside the clubhouse. To me, that's the part of the story against the Hell's Angels makes the least bit of sense.
I hope this gets solved soon, so the neighborhood can rest.
I have had this debate about the blood type diet with my best friend Kim since Dr. Peter D'Adamo wrote the book Eat Right for your Type, the blood type diet book.
I have been a practicing vegan for 2 years until recently.
Since this past holiday season I added tuna to my diet, as Kim had visited before Thanksgiving and we had again engaged in this debate. Kim is a type A blood type, and it was her vegan example that inspired me to be vegan.
I told Kim that I felt like I was eating too much soy and was bloating from it, Kim again suggested the blood type diet, and that I should think about eating meat- beef - and see how it made me feel.
Just the last week, the opportunity presented itself. I was at a gala at the Waldorf Astoria for the Citizens Committe of NY with my girlfriend and a filet Mignon was placed in front of me. I had said to my girlfriend that I wanted to eat it. It wasn't this earth shattering event at first, but the next day I noticed that my belly had gotten smaller, it was funny.
So now I am no longer vegan and I think there is something to this blood type diet- if it is practiced correctly.
I still feel like I am betraying some vegan cause- even though that was not why I went vegan in the first place- i did it for health-not to save the planet. How weird that it turns out to be healthy for me to eat red meat!
What I find myself eating when I have beef, there is no grain, but salad- thai salad and beef, specifically cilantro and beef is what I eat. I do not want to eat chicken- chicken is neutral and for that matter I 'd rather have the tofu andjust not over do it.
But I find it strange that red meat is healthy for me after following a vegan diet. I did not think I would be on this side of the debate-ever! There is also the fact that my family's medical history weighs heavy on my mind and makes me not want to eat red meat often.
Eventually, I am going to seek the services of a blood type diet practitioner and try to strike a balance that is right for me, I am serious about my health, it seems 2007 has brought health issues into the foreground, and I am addressing them.
This goes in the "things worth watching" category... Animal Planet's yearly answer to the Super Bowl, it's the Puppy Bowl. (ads are easily muted)
there's a Kitten Half Time Show.
and there's the water bowl cam.
time well spent, Animal Planet friends.
... stuff blow up. boobs. confused animals.
unlike the many movies and tv shows where you never see anything except people talking to each other, the Beastie Boys video anthology includes the following entertaining images, in order of appearance:
giant robot
kung fu
dancing matching dolls
mad scientist
lobster claw
subways
electrified pitchfork
people pretending to fall
fist fight
space travel
disco
kitten on a turntable
cheering section made of fruit
sulfery, misty hot springs
earth from space
bombs exploding
fighter jets lined up on a field like a suburban subdivsion
gun getting smashed with a mallet
rubble
burning oil fields
dog tongue
casino
guys in tuxedos
sushi
mariachi band
cowbell being played by a wall with arms
scuba diving
sex
dance contest
cast of characters
a whip
surfers in slow motion
skateboarding
the moon
a cat through a fish eye lens
chasing that cat with said lens
doing so while repeating "it's gonna get ya!"
snowboarding
a complext heist
a man with a nightcap being beheaded
swordfight with a ninja
bunny slippers
powdered wig man
human slingshot
helicopter chasing black sports car (yes!)
machine gun fire
car tumbling off cliff
executive air cabin
jumping from a plane
fighting in mid air
a bird attacking a man
plane blowing up
parachute landing
underground lair that resembles a 1950s hat box
fiesta ware
lava
tornado
nuclear explosion.
