30 Chick Flicks in 30 Days

How far would you go to understand the opposite sex?

That question has helped to fuel the idea behind this site, “30 Chick Flicks in 30 Days: One Guy’s Exploration of Romance Through Movies Loved by Women”.

First, you should know that I’m that “guy” exploring these films. Second, my name is Nick. I’m a husband, and have been for seven years. Third, no one put me up to this. And fourth, I’m not some professional film critic. I live in a small town in southern Oklahoma. I work in communications.

This little experiment will begin Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, and conclude on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010—the day before Valentine’s Day. That’s 30-straight days; 30-straight chick flicks.

30chickflicks.com

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Backstage during Fashion Week

It’s the season of Fashion Week, from Bryant Park in New York last week to London this week, and Milan, Los Angeles and Tokyo next month. As designers and their models gather to present their newest collections to the world, photographers are on hand to take thousands of pictures, most during the actual show – with a few photos from the backstage of each show sent across the wires as well. I’ve gathered a handful of those backstage glimpses from recent fashion shows, most taken in New York, and share them with you below.

Boston.com’s The Big Picture

There are several pictures that caught my attention.  The one above seemed a little funny, but there’s one in this set of a model with a large pimple on her forehead.

But if male models are more your thing, feel free to fling them around here.

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Click here to find out more! Colorado family, Arizona foundation go to court over who gets dead woman’s head

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado family and an Arizona nonprofit are fighting in court over who gets the head of a woman who died this month, along with a $50,000 annuity she left behind.

At issue is whether 71-year-old Mary Robbins’ head and brain will be preserved by cryonics — extremely cold temperatures — in the expectation that future technology may be able to bring her back to life and restore her health.

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Bag of Randomness

  • Bob Costas is 58 years old which kinda surprised me.
  • Cute, and I mean really, really cute sleeping baby photos
  • NYU Business professor schools a prospective MBA student
  • The CIA has a page on the shoe phone
  • Rolling Stone magazine, at least for a while, lost the RollingStone.com URL.
  • Just how deep is the marina trench?
  • What BagOfNothing.com sounds like on Code Organ
  • Olympic venues past, present, and future as seen from space
  • Here’s an article that I’ve been sitting on quite a while, one that several of you have emailed to me.  It’s a piece from the NY Times titled “How Christians Were the Founders?”  Personally, I don’t think it’s a good title for the article, but the article itself is really about the conservative Texas State Board of Education, what they decide to be included in school books, and how their decisions affect a nation for a decade.  Because the state of Texas distributes 48 million textbooks annually and is quite specific in what they want, text book companies tailor their books to meet the state’s needs and those books are sold across the nation.  I think a lot of the article is focused upon this Ralph Reed quote, “I would rather have a thousand school-board members than one president and no school-board members.”  It’s a fascinating read, but I’ll warn you, it’s one heck of a long read.
  • I’ve been on a Jello kick as of late.
  • One thing I’m horrible at remembering to replace . . . my toothbrush.
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