I SO love it! You wear it well, Amy!

Very well. And well you should charge for the privilege. Sigh. Where has common courtesy gone? Though I guess your point is just that they've gotten that unused to someone properly dressed for the occassion.

People didn't mean to step on it. But, people rarely dress in this town. It's very boring.

In famous for being rich and famous fashion news, I saw Paris Hilton this weekend with a little guy with tattoos all over him (apparently her boyfriend) getting coffee in the Hollywood Hills. The girl has feet like two canoes. She must wear a men's size 10.

And how sad is it that I know her BF is Benji Madden of the band Good Charlotte, whose twin brother Joel is the baby-daddy of Nicole Richie's (Paris' former BFF) little girl Harlow?

I had the problem of people stepping on my wife's train. I had to quickly rig up a wrist band for walking around clumsy people. It had some dental floss or fishing line and she would lift to walk or drop the wrist to for the train to drag. Love the dress.

"fashion statement too often involves wearing $118 sweatpants with "Juicy" on the back" Your shitting me, that awful pink derrier saran wrap cost $118. I'm in the wrong business, screw engineering I switching to ugly text covered sweat pants. Do you think they would sell better with or without holes? For slogans (to avoid copy right infringement) I'm thinking of "PORTAL", "USED" and "Hot and Fluffy", maybe "Sunnkist" (misspelling intentional).

That's a terrific photo. What does your dress look like by the end of the day, even when people aren't stepping on it?

Okay, I'll step up to the plate and admit to being male here:
Amy,
Nice view (even if you are a tad thin for my taste).
In the words of my generation- yer a looker kiddo!
And I suppose it's a nice dress, but I suspect angel would have a really hard time in it ('tails' and wheelchairs don't play well together).
Gunner Retired

Very nice. We should swap tails sometime.

Wow is that your front porch? Do you do landscaping design on the side? I could send you pictures of my front yard and you or whomever does yours could send me tips. Anyway what is that plant immediately to your right in the picture?

OMG Amy. That is ..well...wow. Thanks I’ll add that one to my Goddess collection. Sigh

$118 for a pair of pants? For that much it better clean, kill spiders, and do my taxes.

Nice looking dress by the way.

Hate to be a threadjacker but I'm going nuts

Brains caught in a loop and I cant focus on anything else at the moment

What is the orchestral peice playing in 2001 A Space Odyssey when the black monolith appears in the ape encapment?

That is my front porch, and I'm sorry to say no idea what those plants are, but they grow like crazy!

You look like a fiery-haired princess. I love your front porch, too.

*bobs head from side to side*

Would you like some fries with that shake?

I like the lion. I love cats big and small and have somewhat a collection of both (small collection; it isn't insane in my house, I swear). Now that I have a front porch (and a back) I want to find some kind of nice stone lion thing but mostly I see these cheap plaster imitations which I can live with if they didn't look fake from a mile away. (In other words, a good fake is probably what I can afford; I can afford a bad fake, of course, but am too repulsed.)

The plants are beautiful too and I now also have flower beds. In too late this year to really do right by them (they've been horribly neglected for years) though my grandson and I growing (or attempting to) a pumpkin, some kind of cute little flower he started in a cup at school for mother's day (and his mother quickly pawned off on me when I got said flower beds) and a small packet of flower seeds we picked up. Next year, I swear I'm going to do right by it and I'm damned if I'm not going to have lilly of the valley (love those), that stone lion and a bench under that huge shade tree across the walk from it.

Luj, I think you want "Fanfare for the Common Man" by Copeland. But I'm not 100% sure, so don't depend on that...

Very nice picture! Very pretty.

Are those plants these?

http://tinyurl.com/5c9noj

If so , they are 'shurochiku' (in Japanese anyway) and I don't know the English name, they are of the bamboo family,so they'll grow like weeds.

Posted too early, just found the English...'rhapis palm'. MIL told me they were of the bamboo family, that's incorrect, they are palms. Sorry for the multiple posts.

Awesome dress! I cannot believe people stepped on your train. WTF? I guess they were simultaneously attracted and blinded by your hotness.

Congrats on the awards, too. It is hugely satisfying to have one's work recognized. Bravo!

lujlp,

The piece from "2001: A Space Odyssey," is the opening brass fanfare of Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra," written in 1896.

It is sometimes also referred to as "Fanfare from 2001: A Space Odyssey." For obvious reasons.

Oddly enough Flynne, I also had it filed away in my brain that it was referred to as "fanfare for the common man." However, we just had a community orchestra come through my theater and play it. And they gave me a CD of the performance as a gift. :) And the CD had liner notes.

Thanks very much, Homeless, I appreciate finally knowing where it really came from! o_O

A few years back I told you that was a butt worthy of eating pancakes off on a Sunday morning....

Thanks homeless, When my brain gets stuck on one thing I'll either go obsessivly nuts or into a stupor if I cant et my mind onto something else

I hate that tune.

Not really, it's just wicked-shit overrated. Even the Deodato version... It was 1972, it had been in that movie, and people were compelled to pretend it was interesting. The Deodato version has one compelling blessing: The first popular recording featuring Stanley Clarke.

"Fanfare" was the introductory piece for the Stones 1975 tour... So over-the-top pompous that it was good clean fun

A few years back I told you that was a butt worthy of eating pancakes off on a Sunday morning....

That sounds like it would hurt with the cutting and stabbing of the pancakes and all...

Maybe "morning starch" is a common figure of speech in Coeur D'Alene. Hell, maybe "Coeur D'Alene" means something salacious... when properly translated.

Also, prog-rockers Yes used to open with the Firebird Suite finale. It was silly, but we were all on drugs, so we ate that shit up.

Seriously, if you went to a wedding nowadays and they played Pachabel's canon, wouldn't you resolve to take out the bride's weeping mother with your cake fork at the reception? What jury would convict?