Salty Sayings for Celebrities

Last night, I know I should have been watching the amazing live footage of the rescue of the miners in Chile for its social significance and stuff, but I wasn’t. I was trolling the internet to get the scoop on all the celeb news that has been popping up. If celebrities actually ate cookies, I’m sure they’d be all over our goods.

Christina Aguilera could have ended her marriage to that guy that I get confused with Tori Spelling’s first husband with this message:


(And how utterly unfamous you are, Jordan Bratman.)

Courteney Cox also ended her unexplainable marriage to David Arquette this week. I like to imagine she would pack all his kooky crap in a box and leave it on the front porch with an order of these on top - tied with a coordinating ribbon, because she seems like a classy lady.



And somehow Rachel Zoe, who lives on a diet of coffee and air, is pregnant If we were friends, she would have gotten a double order of these cookies:



Laura Dern and Ben Harper also called it quits but I always forget they were even married, so I’d probably forget to send them a break-up cookie, too.

Oh, baby. Come to mama!

I love finding new recipes online and as I was looking for some tonight I came across this picture, it stopped my search and caused me to begin drooling. Say 'Hello' to Cookies 'N Cream Oreo Fudge Brownies.

The recipe calls for cookies and cream ice cream, chocolate chips, hot fudge and box brownie mix all stirred up together and spread over lots of Oreos before going in the oven. GACK! I'm not sure if I should continue to elaborate on how the idea of these brownies make me want to hold myself and weep, or if I should just let you get on with your own reaction.

kevinandamanda.com are the proud makers of these sweet treats. They have LOTS of other delicious looking recipes on their site as well. Take a look, snoop around, run to the grocery and start cookin'!

Document Your Life - A Photo A Day

I StumbleUpon'd an interesting story and fabulous idea this morning while researching things to blog about. Jamie Livingston took a photo every day for eighteen years, until the day he died, using a Polaroid SX-70 camera. He called the project “Photo of the Day” and presumably planned to collect them at some point — had he lived. He died on October 25, 1997 — his 41st birthday.

Photos include friends, food, traveling, playing music, TV screen shots of significant moments in history, hospitalization, wedding, visual jokes, night life, the circus and more. On October 25 the series ends. Jamie Livingston was a film maker and editor who worked on public information films, adverts and promo videos for MTV. Taking a single photo every day began by accident when he was 22 and studying film with Hugh Crawford at Bart College, in upstate New York.

“He’d been doing it for about a month before he realised he’d been taking a photo about one picture a day, and then he made the commitment to keep doing that,” says Crawford, who was responsible for putting his friend’s pictures on line after his death. “That’s what he was like. There are some people who have flashes of brilliance and do things in a huge rush or creative burst but he was more of a steady, keep-at-it kind of guy and he did amazing stuff. Part of the appeal of the site is that Jamie was not this amazing-looking guy. He led an incredible life, but there’s an every man quality to the photographs.”

Looking at the website and photos is AMAZING! Without knowing Jamie at all I feel like I know so much about him. I laugh, smile, cringe and shed tears while seeing this beautiful life one photo at a time. What a journey this man had and he captured moments that were significant and real. I appreciate his creativity and consistent effort to tell his story.

This would be an incredible legacy for any person to make for themselves or their family. With just a camera phone you can take a photo each day and put it on a blog, save it to a file or print and store. Take a photo and resist the urge to reshoot, alter or analyze it. The photos are from your view of the world and that is an important thing for you to see and those who care for you. It would also be a fantastic way for you to see what your kids think about or your aging parents. This is too easy not to do :o) Take the photo a day challenge and keep it going!

* Thanks to mental_floss and Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn for sharing this story and allowing me to use some of your copy to reiterate this on our site.