tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35618715651375729272011-04-21T18:08:11.078-04:00A window on my world with stuff about Sesame Street, Elton John, autism, YouTube, and whatever news tickles my fancy at the time.Tiny Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607068531335097307noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561871565137572927.post-40897159701057120842009-03-23T22:28:00.007-04:002009-03-24T11:58:40.561-04:00

If you know me at all, you'll know I'm an old tie-dyed in the wool hippie dippy pacifist, but this makes my blood boil. Part of me says, "It's Fox News, who really gives a crap?", but the rest of me is still reeling from our latest casualties in this war Canada is supposedly not even involved in. Tell that to the families of the 116 people killed in Afghanistan since 2002, the largest number of

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I'm not going to waste time apologizing for the delay, nobody's reading this anyway. I only had one regular reader that I know of and now he's gone. My father used to read the blog, which really tickled me. That's an early version of us above, a passport photo from the '60s (too young to travel alone, I had to use his passport), still one of my faves. Wasn't he a handsome fella?I hadn't seen him

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First we lost Sam's, now another Toronto icon has passed away. Edwin Mirvish, better known and loved by all as "Honest Ed", died this morning at the age of 92. Condolences go out to his family and friends. I'm sure this city will throw him a rip-snortin' wake. His most famous legacy (on this side of The Pond) will always be Honest Ed's. Everyone's shopped there, or browsed in wonder, or at least

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Just move along if you're a Grumpy Gus who doesn't go awwwww at the sight of kitties and doggies and baby polar bears, oh my! Today's post is strictly for fellow fans of the overwhelmingly adorable Cute Overload. Sometimes, you just need a little cute and corny in your life.I do visit the site a lot, but what got me there recently started with a news item about net superstar Knut, the Polar Bear

Tiny Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607068531335097307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561871565137572927.post-88968326394256808052007-06-07T07:51:00.000-04:002007-06-07T17:20:53.020-04:00

Hard to believe, but the day game show fans have dreaded for so long has arrived. Bob Barker taped his last episode of "The Price Is Right" yesterday and, man, are we going to miss him. The last thirty-five years have just flown by, eh? Let's take a look at just some of the fun we've shared with Bob.To get things started, here's a nice tribute from the Game Show Network when Bob was named the

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While I highly doubt Johnny boy will actually read this (heck, I'm not sure *anyone* is reading this thing!), there's a little something I feel I, as the mother of an autistic son for nearly 20 years, should address.According to Wikipedia, this plea from Hollywood Interrupted's Mark Ebner, and this story from Sunday's Herald Sun (an Australian newspaper), Travolta has been avoiding a possible

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Remember records, kids? Shiny black discs you spun under something called a needle to produce music in your very own home. Magical, they were. And people used to buy them by the truckloads. My weekly trip to the local record store, no matter which city we lived in at the time, was a highlight and I built up quite the collection, I must say (see my Celine, Elvis, and Elton, oh my! blog entry for

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Howdy-do! I have returned from the wilds of Ontario (Carrying Place, to be precise, near Trenton) with a spring in my step on this the 43rd anniversary of my birth. Yes, 43 years ago today, my mother spent 22 hours bringing me into this world, so I figured the least I could do was house-sit and pet-sit for her for a few days. Riel and I spent five days enjoying this view from the front deck:

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Hope you all had a good Mother's Day weekend and treated or remembered your mothers with kindness. I had an awesome weekend myself (been too busy working on a big update for the Sesame Street site to blog about it, sorry!), thanks for asking. It started off with a bang on Saturday as we experienced something you don't get to do too often; we were a part of history, baby.A while back, word started

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Is there a doctor in the House? Did ya see last night's fantastic "Family"? And could Hugh Laurie's eyes be any bluer or what?! Best show on the boob tube right now. The whole cast just nails it week after week. And I love watching the whole House/Wilson relationship unfold layer after layer. Robert Sean Leonard is the perfect partner for Hugh. They're apparently good friends off the set and it

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Let's just get this out of the way, I'm not a Celine Dion fan. Don't hate her, she's got the pipes, just not my style of singer. She's from the screamer gals crowd like Whitney Houston (before she hit the crack pipe) and Mariah Carey that have a tendency to just kill a song, if you ask me. That being said, the Celine/Elvis virtual duet on last night's "American Idol" was pretty darn cool, I must

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Living with my autistic son, Riel, has been an education. To put it rather mildly. He'll be 20 in September and for the first 15 years of his life, I was pretty much on my own. If it weren't for my sainted mother, I'd be a basketcase by now.It all started innocently enough (after a normal pregnancy). He didn't flinch at my touch or avoid my eyes or any of the so-called warning signs. The only

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Let's get this thing started with an intro. I'm Tiny Dancer (aka Rhonda), a soon-to-be 43 yr old (May 29th, mark those calendars!) with a 19 yr old autistic son, Riel, and a soon-to-be 45 yr old (May 29th, cosmic, eh?) fiance, George. We live in Toronto, Ontario, in an area known as Upper Beach. Which means we can't afford to live in the actual Beach, but we're within walking distance of Lake

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