Bons mots

Reinvention is the mother of necessity

Bons Mots — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:09:44 +0000

It’s time to move on and grow up. I am no longer a mature PR student – I am a mature PR practitioner. Yes, I write, plan and practice what I’ve learned in my Communications and PR course. Thus, I have created a brand new blog – Bons Mots. Yes, it’s the same name, but the [...]

The Leader of the Pack

Bons Mots — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:05:09 +0000

Ellie Greenwich, songwriter, singer and record producer of some of the most wonderful and indelible pop songs of all time, died today. The music world has lost another genius.

The more things change, the more they stay the g*ddamn same

Bons Mots — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:17:08 +0000

Meet Lizzie Miller. Lizzie is a 20-year-old model who appears in the current September issue of Glamour magazine. Lizzie has created a buzzstorm on the Interweb because she LOOKS LIKE EVERY WOMAN YOU KNOW. A size 12-14, she is described in the accompanying article as “curvy”, “plus-size” and “normal”. The mag’s website has been inundated with readers’ [...]

Love the One You’re With

Bons Mots — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:00:08 +0000

A friend recently sent me an article called “Why I’m Alone”. It is a response by Huffington Post columnist Lea Lane to the question she is often asked in the years following the death of her husband: Why is she still alone? Why doesn’t she date much? While I’ve never loved and lost like Ms. [...]

Heaven at The Gladstone

Bons Mots — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:12:30 +0000

Toasted marshmallow fudge brownie with pomegranate balsamic glaze.

Thunder and lightning, I tell you it’s frightening…

Bons Mots — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:10:06 +0000

Download now or watch on posterous Lightshow 3.wmv (2937 KB) Last night’s light show, captured from my balcony.

Ray Charles covers Johnny Cash (Boing Boing)

Bons Mots — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:48:27 +0000

via boingboing.net They used to have the most wonderful variety shows in the 70s. Enjoy this gem while I go out and buy “The Best of the Johnny Cash Show”.

I’ll die before the endgame, says Terry Pratchett in call for law to allow assisted suicides in UK | Mail Online

Bons Mots — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:37:42 +0000

via dailymail.co.uk I always believed in dying with dignity. And if I leave this mortal coil with as much dignity as Terry Pratchett plans to, then I will die a happy woman.

“I can’t believe I gave my panties to a geek.”

Bons Mots — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:31:43 +0000

John Hughes passed away yesterday and the news made me sad and a little melancholic. You see, I was in my teens in the 80s and watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles in the movie theatres when they were released (when admission was only $4!). Hughes’ characters became very personal to me; somehow, this 30-something [...]

Saturday night was all right

Bons Mots — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:33:30 +0000

The recent spate of celebrity deaths have taken some amazing and talented people away from us. Ed McMahon, sidekick and Publisher’s Clearing House spokesman, was part of my parent’s Tonight Show, which I shunned because my 14-year-old, punk-ass self, completely consumed with the sardonic humour of SCTV and Saturday Night Live, thought it was passé. (It was only when [...]