Gemini-If someone's getting on your nerves, try an old trick and take some deep breaths before responding. Better yet, carve out some alone time before you encounter them again. It'll make all the difference to your attitude. Astrology.com Ya know, that's what it is. I've been breathing and pacing myself. I'm so ready to leave on Sunday. ...and I'm not. but I am. Roadtrip joys abound, Adventuring with the Boy, Where does this road lead?
I went to Coke.com in the middle of the night and zipped off a less-than-150-word complaint against the removal of Coke from the movie. I got a response!! The bottom line: they declined product placement in a religious film, they accept placement of an icon of our times. Would they say it's the wine of the 21st century?? I'm just excited to see hoopla surrounding a film that will be seen by just a few more Americans because of it! Coke now knows my name. Does that put me on some cool chick list somewhere?
Coca-Cola Support to hahamommy@gmail.com date 12 Apr 2007 13:54:43 -0400 subject RE: Feedback from coke.com: 501 Other
Thank you for contacting The Coca-Cola Company. We appreciate your interest in the appearance of a Coca-Cola product in the Italian movie "7 km from Jerusalem".
The Coca-Cola Company (Coca-Cola Italia) wants to clarify that during initial contacts, a specialized agency hired by the film crew offered us the advertising opportunity of product placement in the movie. Out of respect for the religious subject matter, we chose to decline this commercial proposal.
As soon as the producer and the director of the film contacted us in person on April 5, 2007, we met them the same day. It was then explained to us for the first time, that their aim was not to get product placement. On the contrary, they clarified that the director had a strong artistic desire to make a reference to the Coca-Cola brand in the movie as one of the universally appealing symbols of this age. Having understood the purely artistic desire and considering that the playful reference to the brand is not intended to be offensive to anyone, we immediately agreed in that meeting to the use of the Coca-Cola trademark.
We wish the director and producer every success with their film.
If you have additional questions or comments, please feel free to contact us again.
Gisele Industry and Consumer Affairs The Coca-Cola Company
Jesus ♥ Coca-Cola, at least according to the new film, 7 km from Jerusalem where a soul-searching Italian man happens upon the Messiah and offers him a ride and a refreshing beverage (and the requisite smile, I'm sure!). When Josh cracks the can, the man replies, "What a testimonial!"
Already sounding like the kind of movie I can't wait to run out and see/read (it's in Italian) Except I just may not get to ::sob:: "The multinational's Italian unit sent a legal letter forcing the elimination of the scene in which Jesus drinks the well-known beverage," the producers said on the film's Web site. Italian media reported that the company felt that the use of its brand was unacceptable and could get the company a bad image. Bad image? Bad image? Really, what could be worse than denying God's Only Begotten Son (or sumsuch) the most supreme, most sacred, most divinely gifted refreshment on the gahdforsaken planet? I don't wanna know, I really don't. Don't make him settle for Dr. Pepper, or worse Pepsi!
If anyone in this Universe deserves a coke and a smile, it's Jesus!!
I'm so sorry I forgot to blog about it ON his resurrection celebration day, indeed I did not forget to actually celebrate his coolness. Let us not forget, he first appeared to Mary of Magdala upon his, uh, return from the Dead. We all saw Ghost, we know why - she was hot and he wanted to be sure his friends didn't do anything to her. 'specially not Biff, who was probably busy comforting the other Mary anyway. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scotty, the coolest boyfriend in the world, created a scavenger hunt for the kids to win a prize of a date with us at a future date; Alex got Lazer Tag, Elizabeth got swimming and Hayden got roller skating! They were very excited. We filled more eggs than they found, the chocolate sits in bowls and nooks and crannies all over the place. I loaded up on the plethora of wonderful dark chocolate available at this time of year! So much for the lust diet ♥ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My friend Schuyler is in Australia. Easter is about Spring, but there it's Autumn... I guess I just assumed they used the same wheel but at it's opposite point (swap Samhain and Easter I suppose). I guess this is testament to the secularization of those holidays, how funny they infiltrated south of the equator as well... ah, it's the ex-pats isn't it?? The Northern folks living Southern, bringing traditions that make no sense. I hope the eggs were at least Autumn colored.
Sad, sad, day, when you realize your favorite Easter memory from childhood is an M&M Commercial. I can live with the lies surrounding the origins of this Holy Day, heck, I don't even mind folks forgetting it's Easter's Bunny and that it's really about Spring and not The Big Guy, though his story is pretty cool too, doncha think maybe he deserved his own day?? Anyhoo, as I'm not much in the celebration of Spring, here on the Tundra, I thought I'd put this out there for us old folk to enjoy!
and well, while we're at it, here's some new Easter entertainment...
Sheesh, it's a wonder the guy didn't implode our Sun as Winter Solstice competes with his Birthday... in fact, why doesn't he send Michael down to take care of St. Nick? I'm taking my smelly Self downtown with my shopping cart, so my muttering will be in context...
Gemini: Plans for a special event will be finalized, and you're guaranteed an obstacle-free (and potentially romantic) time. An exciting moment of intrigue will take things up a level and heighten the sense of possibility.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ goin to work now, really, I mean it this time...
Gemini: You are ready to go out and play with friends or family, leaving your responsibilities behind, for you may think you can catch up on your work later. Unfortunately, your rational mind has a warped perspective of reality as your key planet Mercury squares optimistic Jupiter. You cannot make up for lost time with good intentions and hard work. Stay on task and relax when you are finished.
Holy Shit! April is here! I am so glad I work well, well, best? under some pressure. It's my little fuck-you to the establishment; the universe at this point. It's about list making. Another form of procrastination, maybe, I like to think of it as focused procrastination. :::bg::: then this will happen:
and I'll get to work!
I've got stacks and pages and scribbles of my talk at Life is Good, later this month... I'm ready to take a deep breath and actually create ONE document of notes, bullet points and outlined sections becoming what I share. I even have the little Mary Engelbreit notebook for the job. Found the perfect pen yesterday.
The car is CLOSE to being done. It's currently driveable, though Uncle Troy says there's a "rats nest" in the blower, which he'll remove and he wants to replace the waterpump before I go too far. He'll be registered, licensed and insured tomorrow!!! The first short trip will be to Summit, SD (3 hours north of here, just past Watertown), to rescue our belongings and tires from Hermione, say our farewells and see that Howard is broken in well :)
I have a son in a fragile space. He's open and loving and joyful and happy; more often than before. He's also much more open about his grief and his loneliness. I know that while I focus on getting us up and out of town at a non-panicked, calm and jubilant date this month, with time to do the extra stuff we want to do (like the imperative visit to Saylor!!) and still get home in time for the circus, I need to be kind and calm and joyful.
We're going nuts the next couple of months because we love it; because it's what we do and how we live. A couple of weeks of sunshine and great friends, (Life outside of the basement :) not to mention my all time favorite car-time with my boy, I think we'll be revved up enough to get our shit together and move it to our new, perfect home.
Here is my intention for our home. When we return (late April) our easily affordable, roomy, sunny apartment, utilities paid, will be waiting for us in the downtown area of Sioux Falls. Scotty has opened doors for me to bake for his friend Natasha's restaurant and sandwich shop. I will bake her some samples this week (she currently buys at :::wretch::: Sam's Club and would just love to have homemade things). I can use her restaurant's kitchen during the night, a'la Sunnyside Up --Thanks Mary and Jon for the inspiration!! I'll have the extra monies I need, with a flexible work situation. And I give back to downtown, support the businesses a fellow young widowed mother, and do what I love in the, well, all the time ♥ ♥
Today Scotty said he will ask Natasha if we can use her basement to have Amy play in May!! They host a lot of musicians through Sioux Falls Jazz and Blues -- maybe Amy should come back and do Jazzfest in July :)
So there. It all lines up somehow, in the typical diana fashion. At this point I have zero expectations of my trip. I have several route options available in my head ::g:: It's not gonna look like what we thought 6 months ago or even 6 weeks ago! It's gonna be so much fun!! Life Rocks!
