The Lovely Mrs. Davis Tells You What to Think

After all the domain issues I was having with my site, and the resulting feed issues, I decided last weekend to move this whole operation over to Wordpress.  Welcome to my  new digs!  I’ve still got a little spiffing up to do, but most of my archives converted just fine, and I even have some new posts here already.  Make yourselves at home!  And now that you’re here, be sure to update your links and grab a feed.

That (AI as an election model) was the topic of our dinner discussion last night.  But it devolved into new and sometimes violent ways to eliminate American Idol contestants who get the lowest vote count.

Just before heading to bed, we turned on the TV and saw some of the early coverage of the tornado that hit downtown Atlanta last night.  The CNN Center and Olympic Park (two of my favorite tourist spots) are near the center of the damage.  It was eerie watching the scenes of buildings and streets that we know fairly well, and learning that such massive damage had occurred just 20 or so miles from our home without us even realizing it.

I was planning on being at a training/meeting in a building that overlooks Olympic Park on Tuesday and Wednesday, but right now I’m not entirely certain it will be happening.  I’ve gotten email and pictures from a few friends and co-workers who live near downtown, letting us know they’re okay and showing some of the damage (or lack thereof) in various areas.  So far, the messages have all been good news.  “Look!  Our home office is intact!  Yea!” and “The roof was blown off the store across the street from my apartment, but we’re perfectly fine.”  There have been pictures of trees down, cars crushed under them, debris caught on power lines and fences, and traffic lights dangling precariously over the empty streets.

It’s hard to see a city that I love so much in such a mess.

I’m hesitant to even comment on this video, because there are probably layers of meaning there that I don’t even comprehend, but I will say this much.  I liked it.  And I think a lot of you will like it.

The movie’s creator describes it as “An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.”

Knowing that many of you are parents and/or teachers, I’m curious if you would consider showing it to your children and/or students, and at what age.  I showed it to Walter, and he recognized two of the earlier battles that were depicted.  He found it funny up until the twin towers (high stacks of hamburgers) were hit.  At that point, he was disturbed, sad, and angry all at once.

Here is David Cook (whom my husband refers to as “GooGoo Dolls”) singing “Eleanor Rigby” on American Idol.  Ouch.

Letting the AI top 12 into the Lennon-McCartney songbook was like letting my kids eat lunch off the good china.  On live television.  With a band.

But the night wasn’t a total disaster.  Behold Brooke White:

(A post which is written almost entirely in parentheses.)

Yes, I know that forwarding to my custom domain stopped working a week go. And some of my feeds are not working. (And yes, I’ve tried fixing all this. But it’s not working.) Please excuse the mess.

(For those of you not familiar with blogging or the perils of Blogger as a platform, this means that any links to pages on lovelydavis.blogspot.com are not automatically forwarding to thelovelymrsdavis.com as they had been for the last several weeks, and many of my most treasured links are broken. BROKEN! And I need them to work!)

(And if, by some miracle, you normally read this blog through a feed/reader and you managed to make it here this week, please update your feed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/thelovelymrsdavis/tLFE). And tell your friends.)

Now that this insanely busy week is over (a week in which Walter turned 8, smoke came out of my vacuum cleaner, my lovely MIL visited from Iowa and spotted Sanjay Gupta at the CNN Center [without me! gah!], Hillary made a comeback, I learned that “Hmmmm” paired with a raised left eyebrow is the best response to an inappropriate remark, Danny Noriega got voted off American Idol, work was crazeeeee busy, and yet I found time to go to the mall this evening to buy TWO NEW PAIR OF AWESOME CROP PANTS and a pretzel dog — just before our county’s tornado sirens went off), I hope to fix the problem ASAP. Because awesome crop pants rank slightly higher in priority than my blog these days.

In the meantime, please enjoy my new favorite site, Stuff White People Like.