gee: in grand rapids, MN. home of the Judy Garland Museum.
aaaaaaa(09:34:59): What color where magic shoe Judy wore in the Wizard of Oz?
bbbbbbb(09:35:12): ruby
cccccc(09:35:14): ruby red
bbbbbbb(09:35:48): shoes are on display at CNN Center in Atlanta
aaaaaaa(09:35:51): U won a cigar.. bbbbbbbb
dddddd(09:35:59): wasn’t there some strange thing like originally they were suppose to be silver
cccccc(09:36:00): damn don’t smoke cigars!
gee(09:36:05): and where are those shoes today?
dddddd(09:36:08): and BTW watch Tin Man on Sci Fi this weekend….sunday
dddddd(09:36:25): it’s Wizard of Oz re-invented for our times
cccccc(09:36:29): awesome! thx for the reminder!!
gee(09:36:32): no one knows….they were stolen from the Judy Garland Museum…
dddddd(09:36:41): np, I’ve got it on TiVo
aaaaaaa(09:36:59): Are the shoes in Judy Garland’s Museum?
gee(09:37:10): not anymore…
gee(09:37:15): they were stolen
cccccc(09:37:41): were they found?
aaaaaaa(09:38:08): eeeeeeeee does not know anything about the shoes
gee(09:38:22): not that i know of.
bbbbbbb(09:38:41): Ted Turner bought them and have them on display with some Oscars at the CNN Center in HOTlanta
bbbbbbb(09:39:28): Turner bought all rights to Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind many years ago
aaaaaaa(09:39:45): How much are those shoes worth?
gee(09:40:02): they were insured for about a million i think
bbbbbbb(09:40:27): The last estimate I saw was 2 mil
aaaaaaa(09:40:48): eeeeeeee wants to know what are the shoe made of?
eeeeeeee(09:41:12): Hey,don’t blame eeeeee,I am not a fan of magic movies or anything magic.
gee(09:41:43): just regular shos.
gee(09:42:32): everything you need to know:
Shoe Size:_5 1/2 A
Shoe Construction: Red faille, covered covered with hand sequined georgette and lined in white kid leather. Inside both shoes in the instep is embossed into the leather "Innes Shoe Co., Los Angeles, Hollywood, Pasadena". The shoes are distinctively darker - a rich burgundy color, than the other known pairs of ruby slippers. Inscribed inside both shoes is simply "Judy Garland."
Manufacturers Production #: _(Right) 5C 11869 D536 (Left) 5BC 15250
Bows: The bows are perfect and are missing no stones. The actual number of rhinestones & bugle beads are unknown. The bow itself is cut out of strap leather, 1/8" thick and dyed red.
Soles: The soles are painted red. There are rubber caps on each heel that are not painted. There is orange felt on the bottoms of the soles (from the toes to just past the ball of the foot). The felt was used to muffle Judy Garlands’ footsteps on the stage floor.
bbbbbbb(09:42:40): with ruby red sequins glued on in a scale pattern
gee(09:44:05): shoes were not recovered.
cccccc(09:44:07): The felt was used to muffle Judy Garlands’ footsteps on the stage floor. …. there’s a market there! hmmmm
dddddd(09:46:19): yep…we used felt / sticky tape on all of our shoes on stage
dddddd(09:46:29): specially when dancing….you need it just to not fall on your ass
dddddd(09:46:44): that or rub sandpaper on the rubber of the shoes….scuffes it up a bit

normally, i try to update the blog at least every tuesday, thursday, and saturday, but yesterday i came home from work and totally crashed.  then about 7:30 kate was heading home, and we tried to call miranda’s so she could pick it up on her way home.  something must have been up with their phone, because i never got through…(could they have been THAT busy?  Viva La Vaquita!)

anyway, so then we ended up getting papa john’s.  while not the world’s greatest pizza, there’s something about the extreme gooey-salty combo going on in the spinach alfredo that hit the freaking spot like nobody’s business. 

on a sadder note, my friend tracy’s dog niblet it missing.  he’s a brown pitbull.  not agressive, but very friendly…last seen in the lakewood/tuscaloosa area wednesday.  if you happen to see him, send me an email or give a call.

Tomorrow night’s round two will be an audio round on hip hop. Check yourself ‘fore you wreck yourself.

also…rather than auction off my fine piece of pewter drinking apparatus, i’ll be doing a raffle instead. Tickets will be a dollar each…only sold that night (december 19th), and you must be present to win. The money will go to one of my fave charities.

the durham holiday parade is this saturday afternoon/evening….it starts near the bulls stadium, and proceeds to central park.

here’s the full route:

New Parade Route

This year’s new parade route begins at the corner of Jackie Robinson and Blackwell Streets, and will travel up Blackwell Street across Pettigrew Street, cross the railroad tracks, continue north past the CCB Plaza, right onto E. Chapel Hill Street, then left on N. Mangum Street, left onto Morgan Street, right onto Foster Street and will end at the corner of Foster and Geer Streets.

There’s also music at both CCB Plaza and Central Park before and during the parade:

CCB Plaza - 201 Corcoran Street
1:45 p.m.  -  2:45 p.m.            Blue Tailed Skinks
2:45 p.m.  -  3 p.m.                 Durham School of the Arts Drum Corps
3 p.m.  -  4 p.m.                      The Latin Project
 
Durham Central Park - 502 Foster Street
2:30 p.m.  -  4 p.m.                 Different Drum
4 p.m.  -  4:15 p.m.                  Durham School of the Arts Drum Corps Show Line
4:15 p.m.                                 Braima Moiwai and Daniel Appah

Is the next generation of prank calling. Especially excellent for dashing dreams of late night las vegas lovrs calling when you least expect it.

but this actually needs extra special attention. 

how the hell can you be abducted by satan worshippers 30 years ago and brainwashed and that impacts your ability to be mayor?  and where did he get truth serum? 

Centerton Mayor Ken Williams said he has been living under an assumed name for nearly 30 years. He had been mayor since 2001.
Williams told authorities he was born Don LaRose and that in the
mid-1970s, he was a preacher in Indiana. He said he was abducted and
brainwashed into forgetting all about his life as Don LaRose. It was a
double-life he had never acknowledged, Williams said, because he didn’t
even realize it existed until he had recently taken a truth-serum
injection…

and people bitch about Bill Bell?

but tireless research was able to determine how the heck England didn’t qualify for the Euro 2008…

now, this isn’t one of the crazy durham foodie blogs, but (as anyone who knows me can attest) i do like me some good food.  last night was LT’s birthday so a few of us went out to jibarra in raleigh to celebrate.  the standing theory was that by choosing to go to jibarra, an upscale mexican restaurant and tequila lounge, lydia could drink tequila for her birthday…because, i mean…she would have to.

as a vegetarian, my options were rather limited, having only a stuffed poblano pepper and a few appetizers to choose from.  i chose to go with a baby spinach salad, which was nice, and a good sized portion, but wasn’t anything amazing.  the quesadillas i ordered were done in a corn masa, rather than flour tortillas, which made them a little more like gorditas.  they were served with a tomatillo and avocado salsa, which had a really nice fresh taste to it.  the quesadillas were a tad bit greasy for my taste, meaning i had to do a lot of napkin wiping. 

kate had the ravioles with scallops, of which she said the ravioles were nice, but the scallops were way too fishy for her tastes.

other peoples dishes were very nicely presented and most seemed to enjoy them well enough. 

unfortunately, our service ranged from smarmy to downright rude.  here’s a little tip for anyone who is wanting to open a niche gourmet restaurant:  hire servers who care enough about the food to learn the correct pronunciation of the dishes, and who don’t insult your patrons.

in the introduction to the restaurant, our server told us that the food was “real mexican”, and that a lot of the dishes featured a lot of chili and heat.  “if you don’t feel it right away, you’ll be feeling it by dessert, if you know what i’m saying…”

he out and out insulted another member of our table and made comments with some pretty bawdy innuendo at several of the ladies. 

in addition to this, i found the prices to be somewhat expensive for the experience.  kates scallops were 19 dollars, whereas a similar presentation and portion could be had at one of durham’s mexican eateries (kate and i both were quick to jump to tonali as being both better in taste and more reasonable in price.)  granted, my feelings on the value of the meal could have been very much influenced by the service.

so overall, kate and i both agreed that we had no reason to go back, and we’d be just as happy eating takeaway from miranda’s.

We met on the first day…he had a red cavalier, I had a blue cavalier…and i’m pretty sure we could have an open relationship…well, if it wasn’t for me being pregnant…i mean he’d love it, but I definitely couldn’t do anything after I start showing…