Entries tagged with royalty

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Good News!

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting!

Having watched their wedding and that of his parents and knowing his family tree as well as I do, I feel ridiculously proprietory about this!

Hopefully it's a girl--now that they've overturned male primogeniture, it'll be nice to have a girl as Heiress Apparent, rather than Heiress Presumptive.

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How effing cool is this? NYC is going to introduce a bike share program--you pay an annual fee, pick up a bike at a rack and then you can ride it for up to 45 minutes. I LOVE THIS. I just think this is the coolest idea! For one thing, I would love to bike more but bikes takes up mad room--even with an apartment the size of mine, I want more space. It's also a pain to carry a bike up and down stairs. This is so convenient! And green-friendly, and community-firnedly, and it'll encourage fit habits! When I lived with Ryan and Cami I used to run errands on my bike--maybe I can get back to that.

The weather is getting chillier, guys, and you know what that means--apple-picking time! Gothamist had a cool feature on several orchards that seem to be pretty close by, and maybe less expensive--Apple Ridge Orchard is only $9 admission, and Outhouse Orchards has peaches and pears as well. And Dubois was voted Best Pick Your Own. Maybe we could branch out from our beloved Applewood winery? Or stick to the boozey good times? Let me know your thoughts, guys! Ooh, can't wait to make some apple bread.

I got cast in a reading! Duncan sent out an email to a bunch of us to submit ourselves to Oberon's reading of The Empress of Sex and the director cast me as...uh, the Empress, I think! Other people I know, like Walter and Amada from PCTF, are also in it. The rehearsal is next Sunday, and the reading is the next day. So now I gotta update my website.

To which, BTW, I have been adding more and more content (note the video clip from The Promise and the audio of me singing "Come Away, Death"), as I get used to iMovie on my lil' Macbook Air. Everyone is right--iMovie is infinitely better than Windows Movie Maker. Truly, I cannot believe Dell or anyone would allow Microsoft to crap all over their hardware with WMM--it is easy to learn but has way too many bugs and is frustrating as hell. No program would be better than WMM.

As I announced on Facebook, I'm taking on a new project. I was so angry at the rape cop verdict, I decided I had to do something with that anger. I did some research and found out about a fantastic organization that really fills a need--a group called RightRides, that offers FREE rides home on the weekends to women and those who identify as LGBTQ (since the aim of the group is to tackle gender-based street/subway violence). I'm going to be volunteering with them as a driver! They operate from 12-3am on Fridays and Saturdays--if you need a ride, call (888) 215-SAFE (7233). They serve 45 neighborhoods in NYC, and they add more according to demand--so even if they don't serve your neighborhood, call 'em anyway so they'll add it!

(888) 215-SAFE (7233)

How much fun will that be? Riding around the city late at night, chatting with passengers--I'll be like a preppy, blonde Travis Bickle!

Happy Birthday, Prince Harry! He was born right around the time of my cousin Jessica.

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Clio entry

New Cliopolitan entry (all about the Royal wedding and attendant issues). Read, comment, click, forward!

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The Lost Prince

I watched this DVD last week. It's quite well done. It's a two-part BBC miniseries about the short life of Prince John, the youngest son of George V and Queen Mary--the Prince had a number of health problems and died at 13. I actually knew of him before because he was another one of those "hidden" people in a large family that interest me--people whose stories weren't told because they died young, or had some illness, or there was some mystery attached to them for whatever reason. People like Rosemary Kennedy, or my aunt Maude. I've seen pictures of John with his older siblings, David (aka Edward, Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII and then the Duke of Windsor) and Bertie (aka Prince Albert, later George VI, the current Queen's father), Princess Mary, the younger brothers Henry, Duke of Gloucester and George, Duke of Kent. I remember seeing this sweet little baby, sickly looking, in his mother's arms--he always intrigued me, that sweet doomed face.

( The Lost Prince )

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Thoughts on Monaco

Monaco is one square mile. That's, like, smaller than a college campus. That's tiny. How come they get to be their own country? I don't understand why some other country didn't snap them up in the Middle Ages--are they completely impregnable (insert your favorite Princess Stephanie joke here) the way Gibraltar is?

And it's just a marvel of genetics how staggeringly good-looking their royal family is. All that lustrous dark hair and long legs and dark eyes and full lips. It's insane.

I wonder if Prince Rainier stands up there in his palace late at night looking down at the lights and giggling to himself, "My very own principality, hee hee hee" and clapping his hands?