Here is my latest find for Bill from Zappos. They have free overnight shipping right now. I also love this pair.

Can You Guess Which Two

Target has some really cute casual dresses for summer. I picked up two of them last night. If it would just warm up I could wear one. Also, a little color would be nice as well.

Not Better Than Cookie Dough Egg Rolls - But Close

I made these brownies from Trader Joe's tonight. Holy crap, they are so delicious. The mix is made with dutch coco and the brownies taste more like dark chocolate than milk chocolate. They are amazing.

Definition Of Displaced Embarrassment

This might be the worst case I have ever had. And I don't even watch him sing, just looking at him makes me uncomfortable.

It's My Flor-in-a-Box

From shelterrific: Look what’s landed in Target’s home department: Flor! It’s called Flor-in-a-Box and you get six carpet tiles for $60. That’s enough for a pretty good sized area rug or a hallway runner. Nice price

Just The Boys

I was going through some of our archived photos today and came across this one of Bill and Alex from last summer.

For The Daring Young Lady

I found these tops at oh my that’s awesome. LOOK CLOSELY. When you want to be pretty but keep your tongue sharp, just go get this shirt, or this one, or this awesome one and let the delicate embroidery say it for you.

Sending Good Thoughts

UPDATE: Ben Smith Got It Wrong. Click to read. Edwards campaign going strong. Unfortunately, Elizabeth's cancer has returned.

El-Li-Et

Remember Elliott Yamin from the last season of American Idol? He was and is my favorite. Check out Elliott’s My Space Page. His album was released today. I think he sounds amazing and looks great with long hair.

Problem Solved

Thanks to Outblush for posting this. If you click on the site below you can watch a demonstration on how they work. You will be amazed at this simple little invention that helps you say goodbye to those embarrassing gaps on your favorite blouse or sweater with the No See 'ems ($13) by Bug Catcherz. These simple reinforced closures eliminates the gap with a reinforced double-sided stick that easily fits around and behind a button, giving you a smooth tailored fit.

ATTENTION - I JUST FOUND AN ENTIRE COLLECTION OF THESE TYPES OF PRODUCTS AT Bug Catcherz.

Today's Delight

I just found these cards at Delight. I have seen box sets before but none were this cute. It's a set of 40 cards designed for every occasion you most certainly need to send - or give - a card. Frantic trips to the card store not included.40 cards and 42 envelopes in a sturdy white box; 100% post consumer paper; $5 FLAT RATE SHIPPING

"I Want To Remember Who These People Are And What They Meant To Me, What They Mean To Me. They're Real."

So I am about five minutes into A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints and I had to stop the movie. I started to search for reviews because I had only briefly heard of it. I found this from MiraJeff at Ain’t It Cool:

Greetings AICN, MiraJeff here with A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, the impressive feature debut from writer-director Dito Montiel who gives his own memoir the big screen treatment. The film won Montiel the Best Director award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and as far as I’m concerned Sundance knows what it’s doing when anointing the next director to watch. Remember the previous year’s winner was Jeff Feurzeig who crafted the superb documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston, which joins AGTRYS as one of the top ten films released so far this year.

So the lights went down, the screen lit up, and the camera slowly focused on Dianne Wiest, making an emotional phone call to her adult son, pleading with him to come home and take his stubborn father, Monty (Chazz Palmintieri), to the hospital. I swear to God, right then and there, I turned to my roommate and said “I am going to love this movie.” It literally took 30 seconds to hit me, 30 seconds to leave its mark on me forever. Honestly, it was the same knowing feeling I felt when I walked out of Crash last April.

I TOTALLY AGREE - something about Dianne Wiest and something even more about Robert Downey Jr. in the first five minutes of this movie just hits you.

John Kerry and Bruce - Madison 2004

Angie, Alex and I are in this picture.

You Can Even Choose By Soda "Pop" Served

Check out Eating In Madison A to Z. There are so many ways to discover the best place to get some good eats in Madison. Among them:

1. A section to choose by letter grade with an honor roll.
2. You can even search by who serves Coke and who serves Pepsi. Very important distinction.
3. There is even a map of where they have been. Useful if you are in a hurry.
4. But my all time favorite part of this site is the link to reviews of local Chicago Style Hot Dogs.

I Pray They Don't Screw This Up

From the official Reign Over Me website:

In Columbia Pictures’ new drama Reign Over Me, former college roommates Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler) and Alan Johnson (Don Cheadle) meet up again by chance on a Manhattan street corner. Five years after loosing his family on 9/11, Charlie once a successful dentist has retreated from his life, and Alan is stunned to see the changes in his formerly gregarious friend. At the same time, Alan who should be enjoying his beautiful wife, children and career is overwhelmed by his responsibilities. Their rekindled relationship becomes a lifeline for the two men, who are both in need of a trusted friend at this pivotal moment in their lives. Reign Over Me was written and directed by Mike Binder (The Upside of Anger).

I highly recommend entering the site and watching the trailer or you can watch it right here. Plus, the soundtrack has potential as well.

Rainy Sunday

In preparation for tomorrow's weather forecast.

Why Haven't I Heard About This Until Now?

Kottke says this is the must-read item of the weekend: how a bunch of guys got themselves and two full van-loads of materials into the Super Bowl and distributed lights to fans to spell out a special message seen during the halftime show. This is in the hall of fame of pranks for sure. "Super Bowl XLI was a Level One national security event, usually reserved for Presidential inaugurations. We had to get two full vanloads of materials through federal marshals, Homeland Security agents, police, police dogs, bomb squads, ATF personnel, robots, and a five-ton state-of-the-art X-ray crane. It took four months and a dozen people to pull off the prank that ended up fooling the world. This is the Super Stunt." (via waxy)

Up Next - Office Space

The office area in our basement is in serious need of an update. I am on a mission to re-create this look from Pottery Barn without paying the mind blowing amount of money they want for their products. I will let you know what I come up with.

Family Movie Friday

Art Garfunkel did an amazing song for this classic 1978 movie.

"Sort Of Like Lacrosse Without The Rape"

Next day trip to Chicago - WhirlyBall. So far we have six, we need a total of fifteen. Let me know if you're in. A good time should be had by all.

Wait For It....

I found this Slideshow of photographer George Lange's favorite work from 2006 on dooce.com today. If you have sound on your computer, turn it up because the song is amazing too. You can see a lot more of this work at langephoto.com.

Because He's Top Heavy

Check out all the limited edition hoodies from Snorg Tees.

Stella has some new work under the shop section.

How pretty are these dishes from Crate & Barrel. They are part of the First Taste Of Spring collection.

I Hope It Doesn't Suck - But It Probably Will

October Road from the writer of Beautiful Girls.

Premiers at 10/9c on ABC tonight.

An HBO Documentary Films Presentation

Premiers Thursday, March 15 @ 9/8c

Thank you Design*Sponge for this post about the three new varieties of egglings. They are just in time for spring: spicy red pepper, lavender and wild strawberries. $9.50 each at elsewares.com

I found these awesome vases at Modern Poverty today.

I love them but at $120, I can't justify them.

For When You Bump & Get Blood

I found these bacon & egg bandage's at Sprout Home. Super funny.

I Get The Sleeveless Part - Nightgown, Not So Much

In an attempt to buy some new pajamas for myself I did an Amazon search for nightgown. I didn't like what that search returned so I looked on the left column and decided to narrow my search down to sleeveless nightgowns. While this is what I was really looking for. And I might even consider something like this. I was also excited to see this as one of the options. I mean it is sleeveless.

Ice Cold & Red Hot

I found this at Gizmodo. For just $19.99, you get a LED faucet light that streams blue water normally, but turns red as soon as it hits 89 degrees. Gimmicky, sure, but at that price how could you say no? – Jason Chen

Remember The Bloggies

The 2007 winners have been announced.

Did Somebody Say Dog Park

God I love warm weather - so do the dogs.

No Drinking Allowed

2:30 CDT

Great Background Noise

Morning Becomes Eclectic host Nic Harcourt

These are just a few of the great live shows:
Ray Lamontagne on Morning Becomes Eclectic

David Poe on Morning Becomes Eclectic

Amos Lee on Morning Becomes Eclectic

Beth Orton on Morning Becomes Eclectic

Patty Griffin on Morning Becomes Eclectic

She Loves Her Some Piano Bench

Gwen, Pink, Bono, Annie & BORAT

I hope the new project that American Idol launched last night turns out to be a huge success. I think it is an amazing idea. Tune in April 24th and 25th.

Cutting through the Blog Smog

I just discovered Delightful Blogs. It's tagline (also the title of this post) says it all. Plus, I think the bird is super cute. Check it out.

I Might Start Eating Leftovers

Don't you just love these storage containers from Loft Party. They will be perfect for leftovers now that I am inspired to cook. I am also in love with all the serving platters they offer.

Screwed, Blued & Tattooed

It's Fergalicious

The flavor, Stephen Colbert’s AmeriCone Dream™ is a decadent melting pot of vanilla ice cream with fudge-covered waffle cone pieces and a caramel swirl. It’s the sweet taste of liberty in your mouth.

Each month Dooce aka Heather Armstrong writes a newsletter to her daughter (pictured above). Heather is an amazingly honest writer and an outstanding mother. These newsletters almost always makes me cry. This month she ended her letter with this paragraph:

This month we also filled out an application for preschool, something we hope you’ll get to start later this year, and late one night your father and I filled out several pages full of questions. We had to discuss several things, including what we hope you will get out of the program and which class we think would be right for you, and then we came back to the one question we saved for last: How would you describe your child’s personality? Your dad wouldn’t let me write “HAVE I GOT A URL FOR YOU!” so we sat there and tried to come up with a way to sum it all up. And we didn’t even know where to begin. It was one of the hardest questions I’ve ever been asked because there were only three lines for the answer, and I felt like I was trying to describe a rainbow to someone who has been blind their entire life. And I didn’t know if they were trying to mess with all these parents, because I know I’m not the only one who sat there staring at that question thinking back over every moment I have lived with you, the screaming and the singing and the way you call a lake a “lape” and a river a “ribber,” knowing that whoever gets to spend their days with you will be transformed by the experience, and that the only right answer would be: You will not be disappointed.