The World According To Crystal

*Things That Make Me Smile

1. The t-shirt I bought during the VDay Charlotte preview party/marketplace in the Atrium @ Amelie’s French Bakery! (I’ll add web site for the shirt later.)

2. Hipster pups. Hat tip to Lesa Kastanas for sharing this on Facebook.

3. The Vagina Monologues! It was so much fun to rehearse. I can’t wait to get back onstage Saturday night and do ‘em one more time! What’s that? You haven’t bought tickets yet? Here’s the link! Trust me, it’ll be worth the drive to Winthrop.  Good luck to the VDay Charlotte crew on their sold-out shows!

4. OPI’s Purple-opolis nail color.

5. Sade finally released a new CD. Finally. Here’s the vid!

Not much time to blog this week. Lots of deadlines but here’s some cool stuff that crossed my radar:

1. Raging grannies My feminist fore-mothers let loose on CBS for allowing anti-abortion ad. (Hat tip to @MeckCharlotte for tweeting this one because I don’t read Perez Hilton.) FYI: Upon reflection, I changed “raging grannies” because it was disrespectful. I know these women made it possible for me to have the life I do today.)

2. Publishing will never die. A three-act play explains why. (Hat tip to former Charlottean Dan Hutson for posting on Facebook. Dan, I miss Newsstand International to this day!)

3. Thanks to Andria Krewson (@underoak) and Helen Schwab (@helenschwab) for reminding me about the “Incomplete Manifesto for Growth.”

4. Photographer James Willamor never ceases to amaze me. Here’s his “2009 in Photos” on his blog via CLTBlog… and I’m thrilled that he used some of his Crossroads Charlotte photos .

5. I love when smart people rant. Check out this one by Mark Morford on SFGate.com. Thanks to the newly shorn Jason Silverstein for sharing.