Julia Barrett's World

Interesting movie but nothing special. Maybe it’s because I’m not a George Clooney swooney. I will admit that I enjoyed him in this role, probably more so than in any other movie of his that I’ve seen. I’ve often heard him compared to Cary Grant, an actor I do swoon over, or would have swooned over had I been alive in those days, but this is the first time I’ve seen any likeness. Perhaps it was the understated, subtle way Mr. Clooney handled the part. Maybe it was the expression on his face at the one climactic moment that reminded me a bit of Cary Grant in the movie, An Affair to Remember. In any case, Up in the Air isn’t a movie that will stay with me. Anna Kendrick, on the other hand, will. She stole the show.

Anybody else watching basketball today? I’m already statistically eliminated from my pool, but at least I won’t come in dead last!

Contests: I have book copies to give away! I’d love to hear your hooks for a romance novel! You can win a signed hard copy of The Cougar Book - full of some fun and very sexy stories!

Have a great weekend. julia

P.S. Happy ipad day for those of you who plan to get yours! Talk about the widespread dissemination and coolness of ereading!!! Bodes well!

Tweet This Post

Anna Paquin opens up!

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid2133643001?bctid=75433647001

Search it out - the link is available for uploading - wish I was better at uploading videos!

Brave celebrities using their celebrity to do good. That’s what I like to see.

Not much new - working, sleeping, hiking - smelled a mountain lion yesterday but couldn’t see anything - it smells like the lion cage at the zoo - just like a giant dura in Captured!

I am without reading material so I think I’ll take a suggestion from Rebecca at Dirty Sexy Books and pre-order a copy of Guy Gavriel Kay’s newest release, Under Heaven. His prose is glorious!

I’m also glad to hear that George R.R. Martin may finally release the next book in his mammoth, brilliant and once missed the mark series - A Song of Fire and Ice. I had despaired of ever learning what happened to my favorite few surviving characters.

Personal tragedy - I have this parrot, and she has a buddy, a little parakeet we rescued from a wilderness park - snatched her right out of the claws of a hawk. We call her Alstie. Anyway, Alstie and my parrot are best friends and true companions. They love each other. We keep our house pretty cool so I have this heat lamp - off the cage and it’s low voltage and I check it all the time to make sure it’s not too hot. Anyway, somehow Alstie got her wing caught in the heat lamp on Monday when I was at work and burned off her tail, part of her wing and a relatively large area on her back. Since I cannot catch her, she’s totally untamed, I can’t medicated her or clean the area - as a nurse who once worked on a burn unit, I know how bad burns can be - bad stuff is likely to happen after the initial injury. I’ve been feeling so awful because I can tell she’s in pain and I’ve been waiting for her to get septic and die and that thought makes me really sad. But! She’s rallied! I figured if she could survive the first week, she had a chance. She’s eating, moving and talking a bit. Where there’s life there’s hope! Wish her luck!

Tweet This Post