Christmas Skype?

We'll all be in Pelham on Christmas Eve from about 1pm on (but stepping out to hear Kate sing at 5 o'clock mass). If any of you guys are going to be together and we can work out a time, I'll bring my laptop up. Let me know in the comments...

Guess what we did today...

Click here to find out...

(Hint: Locks of Love will be getting a donation of a beautiful blonde ponytail shortly, to make a hairpiece for a girl who's lost her hair to cancer or alopecia).

Tree Trimming and Ice Cream Cake, Parts 1, 2 and 3

So I took some video footage of our fun day on Saturday -- chopping down and decorating the Christmas tree, followed by Haagen Dazs ice cream cake to celebrate Mimi's birthday. Problem is, I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to uploading/editing these little video clips. I'd love to splice them together into one short video, but I don't know how. So instead, you get to watch three separate eensy weensy clips.

Check out the detail of the grain of my leather gloves in this one:



I love the action in this one:

And here's where the ice cream comes in. Happy Birthday, Mimi!

... sadly, the third video refuses to upload, despite numerous attempts. Too bad, really -- that's the one with the fully decorated tree, and Vivian dancing on the table while Mimi blows out the candles on the beautiful and delicious Haagen Dazs ice cream cake. Oh well. Sometimes technology is really annoying. To bo continued, I guess...

P.S. If anyone has any advice for me on what to do with these little clips (AVCHD? Wha?), I'd love to hear it.

Peaches and Meem

And Vivian too.

WE MAY HAVE FOUND ANOTHER COUSIN

Perhaps Barack and Michelle will join us next summer at the cousins party. We could have an all Irish theme just to make them feel comfortable. Jaye, you'll be in charge of getting parking passes for the Secret Service detail

The glory days of old Bollywood...

... before it became a target for terrorist attacks. I know this is bad timing to post something funny about India, but this video has been one of my & Andrea's faves for some time and it's time we share it with you! Watch as little or as much of it as you want... have a little jiggle... hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

Happee Yankee Thankee

One of the last things that Vonnegut wrote before he died.

Joe Heller

True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer
now dead,
and I were at a party given by a billionaire
on Shelter Island.

I said, "Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel 'Catch-22'
has earned in its entire history?"
And Joe said, "I've got something he can never have."
And I said, "What on earth could that be, Joe?"
And Joe said, "The knowledge that I've got enough."
Not bad! Rest in peace!"

--Kurt Vonnegut

The New Yorker, May 16^th, 2005

Success!!

That was actually way easier than I thought it would be. The trouble with us Big Cousins is that we don't use the internet like you younguns do. I don't really have any videos to share. Where do you find the time? Luckily when you search "Canada" there's always something laughable. Not nearly as funny as the stock market, monkey scent or mummies on the road, but I did it!! Your turn, the Meem. Ha!!
I vote for Noah and the sheep on the road.

The Contest

I'm sore from laughing and awesomely impressed. I would take too long to contribute, so Ill just say, Bravi TUTTI, and my specialest videos have to be Jaye's guy talking about the airplane on Conan - fabulous - and Kieran's appalling video about the subtle noise we were supposed to listen carefully for. This is really fun. I'll even try to learn how to post my own if Francy will !! Love,

Not homework video: Sunday morning on the rancho Olgiata

Not to purposely break with the amazing thread of random cheesy videos we've got going on here, but I hadn't chimed in in a while, so I thought I'd submit this little snippet of life on a Sunday morning (today) chez Principessa Vivian and Tony Leone, just to wish you all a wonderful week and to send oodles of love to the extended famiglia that is watching.