WanderingAmylessly 2.0

Tim and I are organizing a non-date this weekend. It's the last weekend of 2011 and we're desperate to see the holiday-released flick Girl With a Dragon Tattoo . However... it's the last weekend of 2011 -- no one's around to hang with Henry and, to make matters even more dismal in the new year, our favorite sitter is spending the next semester in Denmark as a foreign-exchange student. So Tim and I have decided to go see a movie. The same movie. Separately. One of us will do something with H while the other sees the film, then we'll switch. That way, we can still talk about it afterward. Not very romantic, but quite practical, don't you think? We'll save money on sitters. We'll go during the day, so we'll get matinee prices. I'll sneak in Christmas goodies to avoid paying exorbitant concession prices. It's Date Night, ThriftySchoon style. I'm just excited that this will be the first theater movie I've been to in ages that wasn't ei...

On this day, 31 years ago, a vile creature named Mark David Chapman gunned down one of the most brilliant musicians of all time. The following is a cover of Imagine by Tori Amos. Don't bother watching; the video's awful. But the music is beautiful, the words as significant today as they were when he wrote them. Have a listen. Click here.