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You’ll Have to Do Without Me

This is the last scene of my favorite adaption of a favorite play. Some lines have been cut and rearranged for continuity. The ending has been changed. But the spirit of the scene has been left intact (mostly). I love Eliza’s transformation—how she stops asking for sympathy, stands up for herself, [...]

Posted 01 July 2008 † Amber Ying § links § media ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Sex, the City, and How We Grew Out of It

The two best moments of Sex and the City: The Movie were in the first hour. Not long after the opening credits, Candice Bergen playing Carrie’s editor at Vogue cheekily remarks how “forty is the last age a woman can be photographed in a wedding gown without the unintended Diane Arbus subtext” (which is [...]

Posted 18 June 2008 † Amber Ying § media ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , ,

Back Online

Yesterday, just as I got home from work, the sky started to fall.
There was no holding back. It poured. Rain—to be utterly cliché—fell in sheets. Thunder rumbled. Lightning flashed. I had to run around the house to close all the windows.
All that lasted for fifteen minutes. Then it was [...]

Posted 09 June 2008 † Amber Ying § beauty § links § media § nature § personal ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Friday Leftovers

Fergie releases theme song to the movie Sex and the City. (Lyrics) Not only does it sound like the awful club music you find on Lansdowne Street, but the song sports lyrics like “Don’t cry. Buy a bag and then get over it”. I know that Sex and the City is [...]

Posted 02 May 2008 † Amber Ying § health § links § media § news § politics § science ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

It’s a Great Movie

Me: Guess what I got?
Byrnes: I don’t know. An apple?
Me: Nope! I got the ring.
Byrnes: The ring?
Me: Seven daaaaaaaaaaaaays.

Posted 09 April 2008 † Amber Ying § conversations § funnies § health § personal § relationships ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,