Lady Gaga is Fat

.....and other lies.

Love her.

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Olympic Dance History: GOLD for CANADA !!!

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir

History witnessed. Tears flowing. Canadian Pride. Love. Love. Love.

Can-Can Chili

Hot & Sexy on a cold Canadian evening. Perfect apres ski or before pond hockey. Chili can warm your body down to the bone. Can-Can Chili however, will heat things up! I'm in a 'cooking' phase....could be fleeting - could endure (?). Meanwhile.....Why do I call this recipe of mine 'Can-Can'? Well, you can dance around the kitchen because this is so easy to make! Everything (well almost everything) comes from a can, can, can !!! Can you dig it?

Here's the 'You Can-Can Make This Chili Blindfolded Recipe':

Get a large crock pot or pot.

Can opener - just open and dump all the contents of each can into the pot.

2 large cans of plum tomatoes

1 can mushroom pieces

2 cans of red kidney beans

1 can mixed beans

1 can lentils

1 can baked beans

1 can cut green beans

(phew...that's a lot of cans!)

1 lb. ground beef (brown, drain, rinse)

1 onion diced

4 garlic cloves chopped

1 small carrot thinly sliced.

2 tbsp. chili powder

1/4 tsp. each of pepper, celery salt, cayenne, chipolte spice

Stew slowly for 4 hours.

Top with a dollup of rich sour cream (how do you spell dollup?)

Dip fresh baguette smothered in unsalted butter into the chili.

IMPORTANT NOTATION: This recipe is even easier if you ask your family members to a) get out the crock pot b) get the cans out of cupboard c) open the cans d) dump the cans e) fry the meat f)slice up the veggies g) add the spices.

All you'll have to do it flip the switch from OFF to ON.

Can you (b)eat that!!! ???

I think this post may have some LEGS to it. Don't you?

Can-Can Dancers at Moulin Rouge: Photo Credit

I Am Canadian

"Hockey is ballet performed on knives by passionate beasts." - Patti Friday (you can quote me on that)

Nine

“NINE” is a vibrant and provocative musical that follows the life of world famous film director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) as he reaches a creative and personal crisis of epic proportion, while balancing the numerous women in his life including his wife (Marion Cotillard), his mistress (Penélope Cruz), his film star muse (Nicole Kidman), his confidant and costume designer (Judi Dench), an American fashion journalist (Kate Hudson), the whore from his youth (Fergie) and his mother (Sophia Loren). The film is directed by Rob Marshall (CHICAGO). The original 1982 Broadway production of “NINE,” with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, won five Tony Awards including Best Musical.

Wrong Winners: Idol + Dancing

Ahhh....my little rant about these shows. Simon has always maintained that 'America always gets it right'. Finally, I must disagree. Gilles should have won Dancing with The Stars and Adam should have won American Idol. These two shows offer such incredible entertainment value, but now I'm miffed....muffed and chuffed.

Vagina: The Dance

You will love this performance. The end is lifeforce.

This Photo (A Year Ago): Playwright Eve Ensler, who wrote, "The Vagina Monologues", holds up plugs of marsh grass she helped plant at an urban wildlife refuge, Tuesday, April 8, 2008, in New Orleans. Ensler joined dozens of volunteers Tuesday to plant marsh grass in areas damaged by saltwater intrusion during Hurricane Katrina. She said it's one way she wanted to give back to the Gulf Coast while in New Orleans this week preparing for the 10th anniversary celebration of V-Day, the global movement she started a decade ago to end violence against women and girls.

Dance Body Position Tip

Heard it tonight on Dancing with The Stars: Imagine yourself a martini. Position your arms around the rim of a martini glass, tilt your head as if it's the olive! Makes perfect sense to me. Sip.

This is a pretty cool goal.

Don't you think?

A Dancing Nora Ephron with a Camera. - Liberty Post
(on a side branch...are you tweeting?)

Boot Camp (Dance)

Saint Patti's Day

This is my day. My specific day specifically because 1 year ago today I quit smoking and more importantly, today I begin Phase II of my important Extreme Self-Care Plan. Now this phase is all about getting physical and I have selected one important and specific discipline to succeed: Dance. Dance in all it's wonderful forms and conditioning. (hopefully I won't slip and fall) In the coming weeks and months I will share more with you! Life doesn't hold tryouts. (So I'm taking care of me....and taking Center Stage.....oh....I'm not really a Saint ya know) Remember when I told you I wanted to dance like this? Be inspired too. Watch this:

Bird's Nest Incredible

Remember I asked you about this photo? Well here's the answer. Of course our resident bloggy smarty pants, At Home With the Farmer's Wife and Life in Red Shoes guessed it correctly. Way to go girls! Sorry, no gold medal. Now, feast your eyes on this pictorial from Beijing. How can you not be completely in awe? How will Canada beat this in 2010? (They need to hire me.)

Hula Loving in the Country (Canada's Hamptons)

Saturday evening brought the swirl of bats kissing above the lai, mixed with copious amounts of liquor beside a fire the size of a five storey inferno. You see, in the country; a good old fashioned silver anniversary party, everyone is welcome. You may be an outlawed biker, born again baker, just-walking toddler, dancing girl or rough and ready boy. You may be rich. You may be poor. You may have wrinkles earned with years of laughter or dewy skin anew. You are all the same and wonderful and hugged and fed and jigged and horseshoed and decorated. Upon the fresh cut lawn, the sound of grunting pigs, fireflies, green tomatoes, hissing frogs, laps of the Mad River and squawking roosters -you feel happy. Celebrating on the shores of the Mad River is nothing short of goosebump marvelous; a babbling, shallow stream overhung with cedars, its banks lined with ostrich ferns. Several rare ferns, including Hart's-tongue fern, smooth cliffbrake fern, northern holly and green spleenwort, grow further up the slopes. A tributary of the larger Nottawasaga, the Mad River is a cold stream which provides ideal habitat for brook trout that you can see glowing in the sparkling clean water. We are, were at peace. Joyful. Exhilarated and alive. Thank You. Thank You. Thank you for inviting our family to your historic celebration. 25 years. I signed the guest book with two words: My God.

Destined for Greatness

The one on the left. See how she points that toe. With exceptional skill, technique and confidence. Look at the line of her arms in their perfect positions. Her smile indicates a joyful performance. And the crown. What can I say? She was destined for greatness. (photo is me: circa 1966?)

Belly Dancing and Begging Forgiveness

I don't know about you, but I've got a laptop full of photo files. Here are just a few of the images from my 'Belly' folder that I am particularly drawn to. I apologize profusely to the artists. If any of these are your work, please let me know so I may credit. Beyond the begging here - aren't these magnificent! The movement, the sensuality, the costumes, the physicality, the passion.

Gypsy Belly Week

Only one word describes her. Sexy.