Happy Thanksgiving.... a little late

I have been an absolutley horrible blogger. I have been extremely busy. Here is why.....


http://http//www.hottalkla.com/htla/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=61&Itemid=320 It's our Holiday Gift Guide. You will absolutely love it.
I have also been busy putting together our gift guide and new magazine... here is that link

http://http//www.dign2it.com/mag/

AND HERE IS MY BABY..... I started a project that I am now introducing to the public but not completely beginning until February.

http://projectkinect.com/

And now here is a little holiday song...

The Importance of Speech and Language

I finally got a chance to watch the new Tyler Perry film "For Colored Girls" which is adapted from the Tony award winning play written by Ntozake Shange. Going into this movie, I was little terrified that the language would be lost and the richness of the speech would not be the main event. Man was I wrong? The cast of extremely talented actress took control and didn't the the language get dropped one bit. One of my favorite scenes, performed by Macy Gray, even came through with the beauty and eloquence that it deserved and was owed. This definitely needs to be seen by anyone who is in love with speech.

This movie gave me inspiration today, as well as this. This is a link to my friend Danielle's website. She is a talented new photographer who I take pleasure in knowing her before she s enveloped by National Geographic. Take a moment to look at her pictures and let her inspire you.
http://http://daniellevick.com

A Mench

Today I was called a mench. At first, I thought, "Listen here lady, I'm bending backwards to help you and you're calling me names" Then, she told me the definition of what a mench is. This is the Urban Dictionary definition: A German word which, in Yiddish, means "a good person". A mench is a particularly good person with the qualities one would hope for in a dear friend or trusted colleague; a gentleman.

Here is the website if you're interested. http://http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mench This was an extremely highlight to my day, especially coming from a complete stranger. I know this makes it about me my ego, but sometime we all need this for ourselves. Good night everyone.


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Monday Monday Monday

I don't have too much to say on what has been one of the most exhausting Mondays of my life, but here is a couple songs to give you a bridge through your day. I hope you all go to bed with smiles on your faces.

Seattle, on a Saturday Morning

I'm sitting here, at Tully's coffee, on a Saturday morning. The fall colors are all out, and the clouds are covering the city like a blanket. It's reminding me of fall back home. Those low pressured Saturday morning's where anything was possible and the idea of perfection in the slightest of detail was there. This morning is definitely that same idea.

When living in the city of Los Angles, one tends to forget that everything doesn't have to be so high pressured. We think that everything takes work and to just relax, even though we do, is more of a reward than it really is. Time is money and you had better be earning it. In addition to this, we think that every where else is just like high pressured Los Angeles. Well it isn't.

As I'm sitting in this coffee shop in Seattle on this dank, murky and fantastic morning, I'm reminded that other cities have their own personalities, their own quirks and maybe, we need the time to try on each city as if we were shopping for a new pair of pants. Just because it says it is a thirty two waist, does not mean that it will actually fit you. I look at the other cities that I have spent time in, now reminded that life isn't as fast as suggested, and I realize that I never became so full of anxiety in those other cities as I do in L.A.

Well, right now though, this is about Seattle, so I'm going to get a refill on my coffee, enjoy the rain, and gaze into the eyes of this city for a bit.

Ms. Holly Ace

Today is one of my closest friends, Ms. Holly Ace's birthday. We met ions ago but didn't officially become friends until the summer of 2001. Since then, she has become my touring one woman show. I have a unique quirky side to me that everyone see's and gets to be enertained by, but with Holly, it comes magnified. If you listen to my show, The Dina and Gregg Show, you get to hear Dina and I get going and its becomes entertaining and yu feel that you are apart of the team, the show. When Holly and I get going, you feel like you paid for a show and you're gonna be pissed off if there's no encore because this shit is funny.

Besides being extremely hilarious and witty, Holly is ridiculously smart and she'll never really own up to it. She is the mother of two gorgeous children and has another on the way. Beauty is embodied in her and that combined with her charm is possibly the most powerful thing in life. When anyone has those two things going for them, they can sometimes be unstopable.

Like all of us, Holly knows failure and defeat, bu she is strong and stubourn and aways provails and I can't wait to see what she does in the next 365 days until her next birthday.

Here are a bunch of things that remind me of Holly and will puts smiles on all of your faces. Good night.

Voting Day

Today across this country is voting day. That is the most powerful day of our year and makes us who we are as a country. There is though, an unfortunate problem. We are all rushing to voting polls to vote and we don't know half of what or whom we are voting for. Americans have gotten the motivation to go into that little booth and vote, and maybe read a little background to the different candidates, but what about the propositions, the amendments, the small changes? Where is that money coming from? Who is donating the money to those causes and why are they donating that money? We as a people aren't motivated to dig that far and, if we are, who has the time to drudge through all of the rubbish to find the bottom line. I know I don't. So, then, after we do what we can to prepare, and become overwhelmed with the barrage of ad campaigning(which is everywhere now i.e. facebook, hulu, youtube)we put trust in one candidate, in one cause and toss it into the wind with a hope of a promise.

It's getting more difficult day to day to take these people and their causes with the belief, trust, and open mindedness that they deserve. I am searching for the good in man these days and am not finding it in our government system as abundantly as we are told it is. I sometimes feel like I'm eight years old again looking in the Highlights magazine at their picture search and cannot find the baseball bat. Where's the baseball bat?

I just want to end this blog with one of my favorite ad campaigns of this wonderful voting season. This comes from the state of Nevada, from the fantastic Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle. After this video aired, she told a reporter that it wasn't focused on any particular demographic and that she herself could easily be mistaken for Asian. I love our modern political wit. Happy Voting everyone. At least we have each other.