Erie's National Weekend

Erie had one heck of a weekend while I was traveling!

Clara Ward's Extreme Home Maker 2-hour special aired on Sunday.

And Saturday, SNL chose Erie's Chamber of Commerce to feature in its PGA skit.

Any publicity is good publicity! Thanks, SNL, for poking some good humored fun at our town. I can't believe I missed it.

Holiday Liiiiiiiiights!

As I was driving to work the other day, I saw this:

I slammed on my breaks, grabbed my cell phone, and ran out of my car and across this guy's lawn to help him.

Turns out it was just his decorations. (I got my new shoes all muddy!)

Apparently, the owner has had a lot of people come screaming up to his house trying to help.

The owner told me he was taking down his clever decorations after only two days. His reasoning:

First, the cops advised him that it would cause traffic accidents as even they almost wrecked when driving by.

Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder, almost killed herself putting it against his house, and didn't realize that it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of the many people who attempted to do that. He had more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up his yard.



P.S. I didn't really see this with my own eyes. But I thought it would make the story better if it was in the first person. Sorry to trick you.

Friday's Festivus for the Rest of Us: The Set

I FINALLY ORDERED THE SEINFELD COMPLETE SERIES BOX SET. To say I'm excited would be an understatement.

No show captured the eccentricities of New York like the Larry David-created sitcom Seinfeld. Helping to define America's view of New Yorkers, the series gained endless fans over its nine season run. Though it wasn't the first show to assert the rudeness of Gotham's citizens, its characters are selfish to a fault--not that there's anything wrong with that. Self-obsessed comedian Jerry Seinfeld is joined in the cast by his neurotic ex-girlfriend, Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus); his chronically lazy pal, George (Jason Alexander); and Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards), who takes the sitcom cliche of the weird neighbor to impressive new heights. Despite their faults (or perhaps because of them), they're some of the most hilariously watchable characters in television history. The entire series is presented here.

Special Features

• Features 32 DVDs with all 180 episodes
• More than 104 hours of amazing extras
• The Official Coffee Table Book: a 226-page bound anthology filled with photos, quotes, and trivia from every episode
• Bonus disc featuring the reunion of the cast plus Larry David on the ninth anniversary of the series finale
• Packaged in a handy collector's case that will look great on your shelf
• Documentaries for all nine seasons
• Inside looks
• Not That There's Anything Wrong With That (bloopers)
• In the vault (deleted scenes)
• Yada Yada Yada (commentaries)
• "Sein-Imation"
• Notes about nothing

White House State Dinner

Michelle Obama's dazzling sleeveless gold dress and shawl at the White House State Dinner was designed by Indian-American designer Naeem Khan.

Below she is pictured with President Obama as they welcome Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Mrs. Gursharan Kaur for the first official state dinner.

Michelle was also wearing a bunch of churis - traditional sparkly Indian bangle bracelets

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Aside from the trainwreck that was the party crashers, Dessire Rogers, White House Social Secretary, also wore something hideous by Commes des Garcons. She wore an apron, a.k.a. Japanese couture.

And maybe she should have been wearing an apron, but instead of greeting guests, Rogers functioned as one: walking the press line and posing for photos.

Tree Print

One of my many purchases on Black Friday, but the only thing that wasn't clothing, was this graphic print of a tree.

Each canvas panel measures 16x30 inches and the entire piece of art measures 48x30 inches.



What do you think of it?