tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-158718082024-03-07T15:04:50.857-08:00TOODLINGThe Scottish Toodler doing what she does best: TOODLING!
A blog all about me and what I am reading, thinking about, and listening to!Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-20529901189335574502010-02-22T13:18:00.000-08:002010-02-22T13:27:33.807-08:00A NEW FACE AND A NEW PLACEI am moving to a new blog: http://www.laladyrae.blogspot.com/Please follow me there!Toodle On!!!Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-41582859044147241882009-06-13T11:39:00.001-07:002012-12-18T21:43:46.388-08:00THE ANESTHESIOLOGIST SHOOK MY HAND
...and said I was the most honest person he had ever met.
"Do you smoke?"
"Not cigarettes, not anymore." I quit tobacco in January. Again. This is something I have to explain. One thing I don't like about hospitals and doctors is that there are too many things to explain. Things that make other people squirm.
Things that sometimes still make me squirm.
I recount how I startedScottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-61407756029969538032009-03-17T18:51:00.000-07:002009-03-17T18:55:56.788-07:00THERE IS NO RECESSIONAll day long on CBNC and CNN you hear these words "recession" "This economy" blah blah blah. Sorry. I get that there are some tough times ahead for a large portion of our population but I am not sure what exactly is receding-- other than arctic ice, arable land, clean water, and a temperate climate.I tell you what- there is no recession of housing. Homes stand empty, for rent signs stay up for Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-90003557804716112692008-11-09T18:56:00.000-08:002008-11-09T19:23:20.102-08:00PRESIDENT OBAMA! OVERDUE HISTORY!!!I cannot stop saying it!!!!!President Barack Obama! The first African-American President! The "yes we can" man!!At some point before the elections someone said to me "there is a buzz about the ticket 'Obama-Biden' because it is alliterative with Osama bin Laden." Undoubtedly this buzz was created by Republicans. But it does share a similar sound.I think that a "sounds like" is just another Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-749153421503394622008-09-28T20:13:00.000-07:002011-08-19T17:54:55.577-07:00OCTOBER WNot the moron in the White House, but the glossy monthly magazine from Women's Wear Daily.
In the last three weeks I have been to the hospital three times (plus a fourth to fill out some forms and pick up prescriptions). I have had a blood transfusion and minor surgery. Over the next three months I will be preparing for surgery again.
I have been recovering very slowly. If I wasn't so grateful Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-71110116455040022142008-09-06T23:42:00.000-07:002010-09-17T09:40:21.582-07:00BREAKFAST WITH TRAVIS BICKLEI walked down Hollywood boulevard the other day, from Vine all the way past Highland.I moved to Los Angeles when I was 19. But before that, when I was 13 I ran away from home and came out to Orange County. I often describe this portion of my life as "Breakfast with Travis Bickle."One of the reasons I disliked the movie Pretty Woman so much was that it was almost verbatim the daydream I had when IScottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-3527938495657202082008-08-29T21:51:00.000-07:002010-09-25T10:37:31.111-07:00SUPERHEROINESuperman flies. He's macho. He plows through air. Spiderman swings; Batman swoops.
My friend Enigma has a great balcony for imagining supernatural Superheroine fantasies. The San Gabriel mountains beckoning in the horizon; the sunrise to your right, and the California coastline sunset to your left.
When it is dark, though, you look out over the endless sea of rooftops and the romance is the Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-405976169304780372008-07-27T13:17:00.000-07:002010-09-01T20:23:42.049-07:00BACK IN LA 6 - INTERLUDEThis week was San Diego Comic Con. My next post will be on that adventure, but I have a few corrections/omissions from my previous posts.Beauty did my hair and make up for the photo session that my profile photo comes from. I meant to mention that in my last post. Since the pictures feature me bare breasted (from the waist up; the cleavage I use as my profile photo was cropped by the Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-69768962048709534612008-07-17T11:42:00.000-07:002010-09-01T20:23:58.481-07:00BACK IN LA 5 - BEAUTYBeauty and I are hanging out at Starbucks during her break. When I go to the restroom everyone stares at me. At first I think I must be looking extra fabulous, but when I look in the mirror I remember that the skin around my eyebrows is super red and unnaturally shiny. My eyebrows themselves are perfectly shaped, but much darker than usual. At this moment I am truly an L.A. lady. Maybe not Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-91141237580879851412008-07-08T11:44:00.000-07:002008-08-01T18:11:07.175-07:00BACK IN LA 4- BITCH & GRIPE & PISS & MOANI make everyone that I write about choose their pseudonym. My teamster friend has chosen "Rolo", pronounced "rah-low", not "roll-low." Don't ask me why. I have been friends with Rolo for about 12 years now. We used to be neighbours. Rolo is a teamster in the film industry. Teamsters are the first to arrive on set and the last to leave. Other set workers usually have call times that are Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-67723659684308514272008-06-29T13:21:00.000-07:002008-08-01T18:24:59.757-07:00BACK IN LA 3- THE HAIR GODI am at The Hair God's house, hanging out while he waits for his client. I have known The Hair God for about nine years, since we worked on an ABC MOW (movie of the week) together back in 1999. He is one of those people that from the moment we met, I knew we would be friends for life.At the time he was seriously addicted to drugs, but within a year he would check into Betty Ford and become Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-16718648581186729422008-06-25T11:52:00.000-07:002008-06-27T01:00:15.905-07:00BACK IN LA PART 2- LOW & SLOWMy friend Enigma and I went to the beach on Monday. We went in the morning, before the crowd arrived. It was a hot day in most of Los Angeles. The wind was really strong at the beach, which made it a very sandy experience, but nice and cool. We went to Leo Carillo, but we couldn't go in the caves because the tide was too strong. We had planned to do a ritual to release some old karma and Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-2440152767358312512008-06-22T10:59:00.000-07:002008-06-22T13:16:59.969-07:00BACK IN L.A.- THE D AND THE TRIPLE DI wonder if I can ever get all of the different parts of me to fit into one location. I miss my hometown, but I like myself better in Los Angeles. I like my life better here. I just needed to slow down I guess. My friend "The Lizard" took the photo below. We had an informal memorial for someone we knew that died 20 years ago (6/08/88). This included watching videos of said departed friend, Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-92040927349854839612008-06-06T16:36:00.000-07:002008-06-06T17:03:19.447-07:00SEX AND THE CITY MOVIEI went to see the eagerly awaited SEX & THE CITY movie last weekend. In my other life I am Candice Bushnell (the author of the real Sex and the City columns that the show was based on). Actually, I think I am half Candice Bushnell and half witch. Or something like that. Anyhow, I love her.Before I tear this movie apart, let me say that I did enjoy watching it, if only to see the Girls again. Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-32807111293620404982008-05-23T17:15:00.000-07:002010-09-01T20:26:05.266-07:00I HAVE NO PROBLEMSThat's right. I have no problems anymore. For 42 years I have had problems. They never stopped coming. It didn't matter if I had that job (that not having was the problem before I got it) or the right guy (ditto last paranthesis) or more money or a better place to live.Problems were like bunnies. One, and I was okay, but inevitably it would go into heat and another would show up. Then they would Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-74512377590840604042008-04-25T17:35:00.000-07:002008-04-25T18:30:53.914-07:00WESLEY SNIPES- FILING TAXES WHILE BLACKI guess I should have called this "NOT FILING TAXES WHILE BLACK." But you get my drift.Back in the early 1990's Wesley Snipes was pulled over by the Los Angeles Police Department for "driving while black." I don't recall the whole story (I actually read the entire ACLU report on the incident) and I tried Google-ing it, but there are too many stories about his recent trial and sentencing, and the Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-49354111591100545982008-04-08T16:20:00.000-07:002008-04-08T14:48:50.784-07:00XENA AND THE MYTH OF THE "GOOD" PERSONMy favourite television show of all time is Xena. (Yes, I do know that I am geek. ;o) In the show, Xena, a penitent former warlord, tries to clean up her old karma by using her skills as warrior to defend her former victims against her former colleagues. Xena wants to make amends and be a "good" person.Xena was the only mortal who could fight with and negotiate with the Gods. Even after she gave Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-80597623853340498832008-03-18T14:30:00.000-07:002008-03-18T14:40:23.349-07:00SPITZER'S DOWNFALL: NO COINCIDENCEI don't have permission to re-publish this. It is so important I am taking the risk of blogger wrath. If you think Eliot Spitzer's downfall is just something that "happened", think again. It happened because of the Bush regime and their committment to making sure that the rich get richer, and no pesky, do-gooder politicians mess up the scam. And people, please. It is the 21st Century. Sex Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-47916739480435734002007-03-26T20:33:00.000-07:002011-08-19T17:49:51.280-07:00GEORGE W. BUSH'S PERSONALITY DISORDERBelow is psychiatrist Dr. Paul Minot's evaulation of Dubya that was emailed to me. It really explains alot.
It does not, however, explain WHY KARL ROVE HAS NOT BEEN SUBPOENAED YET!!!
Anyhow, read on....
A Psychiatrist's Analysis of George W. Bush George Bush's "irrational"consideration of a "surge" in the wake of the Iraq Study Group report -- which apparently defies all credible Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-13489917964200869102007-03-14T21:01:00.000-07:002008-01-18T11:34:27.301-08:00IS THERE A TEST TO DETERMINE IF BABIES WILL BE NEO-CONS?"Neo-con" means "neo-conservative." People like Karl Rove, George Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleeza Rice count on the support of neo-cons. Rush Limbaugh is their "leader" if that term can even be applied to him.So, today, one of these morons (Southern Baptist "Reverend" Mohler) came out saying if it were determined that there was a biological basis for homosexuality then the fetus should be "Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-1156916789279652762006-08-29T21:41:00.000-07:002010-09-17T10:31:52.915-07:00BECAUSE I AM A QUEENThe pictures in this post have nothing to do with what I am writing about. I am just using my favourite pix from the first year to divide up all my random thoughts. MY FAVOURITE PICTURE FROM MY FIRST YEAR OF BLOGGING.I've been listening to India Arie. "Sometimes I shave my legs and sometimes I don't/Sometimes I comb my hair and sometimes I won't...I'm not the average girl from your video/And I Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-1156100303335340782006-08-20T11:43:00.000-07:002010-09-17T10:36:35.843-07:00DPF PSAI was talking to my Mom this morning about my grandfather, who died about six months after I'd moved out here. His birthday is the 23rd and my 21st anniversary of living in Los Angeles is September 1st."You should see these letters he wrote Nonny," my Mom told me. "He was once a vibrant, healthy, sane man." (My grandfather is where my mother inherited her manic depression.)"He was obsessed with Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-1150490482649729302006-06-16T13:16:00.000-07:002010-09-17T10:41:16.073-07:00DO YOU BELONG?Photo linkHappy Bloomsday to all Joyceans, Dubliners, and Dubliners at heart!A nice link about Bloomsday:http://www.irishabroad.com/Culture/Literature/writers/bloomsday/A nice little article about Joyce's grandson, Stephen Joyce:http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060619fa_factI don't have time to track down the exact quote (and I admit to reading Joyce the way I read Woolf, skimming Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-1148973757458568352006-05-30T00:11:00.000-07:002010-09-17T10:43:13.145-07:00CRAPPETITEI invented a new word: crappetite. I have an appetite for crap. I should send it to that contest whatever newspaper has every year. Does anyhow know which paper it is?Anyhow, my crappetite has been in full swing this weekend. I have been eating pizza, fried foods, etc. My stomach is paying for it.I had a mini-meltdown this weekend. It was like I felt imprisoned in my life. I wanted to pack up a Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871808.post-1147455394029662542006-05-12T10:16:00.000-07:002010-09-17T10:44:34.412-07:00SCREAMING LORD SUTCH: MAY HE LIVE AGAIN!!! Screaming Lord Sutch performing.Brits are always surprised that I know who Screaming Lord Sutch was. More surprised than if I spout a few (Scots) Gaelic phrases at them. More surprised than if I profess to knowing that he died on Bloomsday, an obscure Irish celebration of James Joyce' ULYSSES held every year in Dublin. (I hope to attend one year.)To my ABSOLUTE HORROR I recieved an email from Scottish Toodlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17846209988015583381noreply@blogger.com6