Jeannie Mai’s video with Art Predator at 2010 Women’s Conference
Jeannie Mai of the Style Network’s video version of the Women’s Conference segment that I participated in….complete with video of me in Day 2 of 10 as a brunette. My version is still to come…!
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SantaCon, Wine Walk & Other Ventucky Winter Weekend Festivities!
Art Predator will be busy this weekend! Tonight is the SantaCon FFArtRide (SantaCon 2 is Sunday Dec. 19) and Saturday is the Winter Wine Walk! Plus there’s Indian music and food scheduled at the WAV, and Stewart-Brown is having a sample sale! See you on the prowl!
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SantaCon FFArtRide Tomorrow Night!
SantaCon ArtRide tomorrow night! Pimp your ride with Christmas Lights & meet up with us for some holiday madness! If you can’t make it for the FFArtRide, SantaCon 2 rides Sunday Dec. 19! Search for SantaCon on this blog to learn how to make your own Santa suit, for XMas carols, and other SantaCon rules including the 4 F’s!! (PS Watch for photos up from the ride!)
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Help WEV: Wine & Dine at Jade Restaurant Santa Barbara
Lots of great activities coming up this weekend! SantaCon, Wine Walk, WEV Winemaker Dinner and more!
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Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s AP’s famous chocolate rum pecan pie recipe!
Lots to be grateful for this year…thank you for being one of my readers!
Have a wonderful thanksgiving!
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Wines for a Happy Thanksgiving
I tell you, I am grateful for WINE this Thanksgiving! I just bought a bunch and I can’t wait to taste and write about them for you!
Pondering what wine to pair with your Thanksgiving day? Check out this blog post full of recommendations!
And have a great Thanksgiving! It’s crazy out there–I just came from Trader Joe’s–so be careful!
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You’re Invited On An Adventure to … Bianchi Winery in Paso Robles!
Want to go on a wine tasting adventure to Bianchi Winery in the Paso Robles with me to meet, chat, tour and taste with Bianchi winemaker Tom Hall? I’m looking for some fun people who are passionate about wine to join me! Travel included (if you meet me in Ventura!)
Sound like you? Interested? Check out this competition on Wine Predator! More information to come!
PS Bonus points if you’re a subscriber to one of my blogs!
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Paul Squires: Some things are not ghosts
some things are not ghosts,
by Paul Squires aka GingaTao
June 25, 2008 at 6:42 pm
so openminded had he become
that he had drifted off
and did not notice the curtains float open
nor sense her approach
Those are the first four lines…I remember the moment I first read all of this poem by Paul Squires. It took my breath away. At the time, Paul was making t-shirts of his poems and ideas at Cafe Press and he made one up for me but I never got around to ordering it.
Usually, I would check his blog first thing in the morning to read what he’d written after work in Brisbane. That was his usual pattern, work, come home, write, post about 7pm Brisbane time–which would usually be past my bedtime in the US!
Today, November 19, would have been Paul Squires 47th birthday. Interestingly, there are three men in my adult life who have had a huge impact on my life as an artist and all three were born on this day.
Paul Squires passed away July 28, 2010 but his poetry lives on at his blog GingaTao or in The Orchid Room, an interactive online salon he started and which continues today. You can order his book, The Puzzle Box. You can even wear one of his poems.
Today, I’m going to try to get around to a few things I’ve been meaning to do but put off. I’m going to open a special bottle of AUS Zinfandel for Global #Zinfandel Day. I’m going to order that shirt. I’m going to write. I’m going to work on getting my book out there, my poetry collection that’s dedicated in part to Paul. I miss you, McPaulus, and I still can’t believe you are really gone.
Have a lovely day full of fantabulous surprises where ever you may be.
Movie Time: Desire & 127 Hours
Man vs. Nature. Man vs. Himself. Pretty elemental ingredients in literature, yet in the hands of director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire) these conflicts become the stuff of real life as portrayed in 127 Hours, the real life story of Aron Ralston based on his book Between a Rock and a Hard Place.
This is the classic Greek hero just waiting for a fall, and fall he does, literally and figuratively into a steep crevice, his arm pinned against the wall of the canyon by a huge boulder too big to move.
It is Saturday, April 25 when his adventure begins. It will last the 127 hours of the movie’s title. During this time, Boyle, Franco and the expert cinematographers Enrique Chediak and Anthony Dod Mantle will take the movie going audience on a journey deep into the this desolate desert and deeper into this man’s mind, as well as into his his hopes, dreams and thoughts of his past life and a future life if he survives this horrific ordeal.
Patti Smith Wins National Book Award for “Just Kids” Memoir
Here at Art Predator, we’re happy to hear that Patti Smith won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. Last summer, guest Blogger Ron Wells reviewed and raved about Patti Smith’s Just Kids and which you can read below. Here’s a link to an Interview with Patti Smith.
Learn more about other nominees and winners of the National Book Award here.
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