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Rhonda

your promises, they look like lies.....your honesty, like a back that hides a knife

About Me

Tutto redo e molto mancha

My Interests

Colorful sunrises, Indian food, facing in an Easterly direction, and building my now 5 year-old business, Sapphire & Sage

I'd like to meet:

Others who have an intense hatred of computer-animated animals

Music:

OLDIES BUT GOODIES (in chronological order as far back as I can remember):
Men at Work, The Fixx, Devo, Journey, Duran Duran/Arcadia, Howard Jones, Thomas Dolby, Thompson Twins, A Flock of Seagulls, Prince, LL Cool J, Morris Day & the Time, Jesse Johnson's Review, The Ramones, Public Enemy, Pet Shop Boys, The Smiths/Morrissey, Depeche Mode, New Order, Electronic, Revenge, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Lords of Acid, Consolidated, KMFDM, Meat Beat Manifesto, Cocteau Twins, Cause & Effect, Xymox, Borgeshia, A Split-Second, CCCP, Portishead, and old school (pre-glow stick) techno...just to name a few.
STUFF CURRENTLY GRACING MY ROCKIN' MINIVAN WITH THEIR MUSICAL PRESENCE:
Radiohead's "OK Computer" and "The Bends", The Smiths' "The Queen is Dead" and "Strangeways Here We Come"

Movies:

MOVIES THAT STILL MAKE ME GIGGLE, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I'VE SEEN THEM
"Monty Python & the Holy Grail"
"Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"
"Ghostbusters", I and II
"Sixteen Candles"
"Overboard"
"The Golden Child"
"Bring It On"
"Napoleon Dynamite"
"Eurotrip"
MOVIES I WATCH EVERY TIME THEY'RE ON TV, IF FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN TO DRIVE MY HUSBAND CRAZY
"Roll Bounce"
"A Knight's Tale"
"Total Recall"
"Stargate"
"12 Monkeys"
"Bend It Like Beckham"
"Independence Day"
"Twister"
"Shawshank Redemption"
"28 Days Later"
"Drumline"
"Stand by Me"
"Ever After"
"The Running Man"
"You've Got Mail"
"A League of Their Own"
MOVIES THAT MUST BE VIEWED WITH EVERY LIGHT IN THE HOUSE ON AND SOMEONE NEARBY TO GRAB ONTO, EVEN IF IT IS ONLY A CAT
"Poltergeist", I and II
"The Ring"
"The Eye" (Japanese, with subtitles)
Stephen King's "It" (crazy scary for a made-for-TV movie)
"Prince of Darkness", (hands-down the scariest movie *ever* made)

Television:

Ghost Hunters, Dirty Jobs, Eureka, Most Haunted, Ugly Betty, Lost, Medium, Mummy Detectives, No Reservations, Bizarre Foods, Dresden Files, South Park, Supernatural, Dog Whisperer, Digging for the Truth, Hot Rocks, Bones, The 4400, Blade, and pretty much anything on the National Geographic, Science, and History Channels.
And may the gods help me, but I just LOVE Suze Orman.
But I'm still super-ticked that "Keen Eddie" (check i=out the repeats now running on Sleuth)and "G vs. E" didn't get picked up for second seasons. Those shows were just *way* ahead of their time.

Books:

Anything to do with historical society and art....more a "job hazzard" kind of thing than for fun, really.

Heroes:

My kids. They're all total goobers, but they each proudly wear their goobiness like a big, golden badge of honor.....covered with sparkly rainbow glitter.....and wiggly eyes.

My Blog

the invasion has begun

Last night, our house was the location of our son's first high school-age "party".  It was pretty terrifying:  boys taller than my 6' husband....boys whose voices are today the sam...
Posted by Rhonda on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:11:00 PST

were going to prison tomorrow

Mansfield Reformatory, to be exact! Tomorrow night will be our second overnight ghost hunting trip to the historic retired prison.  This is most definitely NOT the crappy haunted house-styl...
Posted by Rhonda on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:45:00 PST

for those of you who missed it before

Here's a final note from MJ on the Showtime production she spearheaded.  So, for you folks who didn't get to see it before because you don't get the Style Network, there's a link to the special.&...
Posted by Rhonda on Thu, 03 May 2007 06:08:00 PST

satellites are weird

My garage is the orange square in the middle of the spycam image below: http://xml.maps.vip.mud.yahoo.com/prnt.php?v3=0&&mvt =s&q1=44281&trf=0&clon=-81.723046&clat=41.03 076...
Posted by Rhonda on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:11:00 PST

Style show review...thanks, New York Times!

Well, the show has been broadcast (first run of it, anyway!), and I think it was pretty darn good!  MJ at Showtime did a great job of focusing on the old styles vs. the new and how today's runway...
Posted by Rhonda on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:08:00 PST

the latest news from Showtime studios

Received this email today from the Producer at Showtime Networks whom I've been working with the last month or so: "Hi, Rhonda --Well, I know the Rights & Clearances people are swamped,b...
Posted by Rhonda on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:35:00 PST

if you feel like crap, it is working

Detox week...what a drag.  Thanks to all of the junk we've eaten for the past 10 years, I'm going through major sugar withdrawal and have had a headache since Monday afternoon.  But that's p...
Posted by Rhonda on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:09:00 PST

as seen on TV

What a week!    The bad news is that I'm running about 2 weeks behind on filling jewelry orders.   The good news is that you'll all be able to say that your friend's handiwor...
Posted by Rhonda on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:38:00 PST

world tour media whore

After a couple of years of finding small collages for various faires that have shown my work (viewable with a magnifying glass in most cases), I finally today had the extreme pleasure and honor of fli...
Posted by Rhonda on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:37:00 PST

'tis the season to deal with psychos

Normally, I love my job. My clients are awesome and they're a ton of fun to work with. HOWEVER once in a while, a Class-A Ass Hat finds his/her way to me, and the customer is most definitely NOT alway...
Posted by Rhonda on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:59:00 PST