Bruce Littlefield's Life 101

Garage Sales – Octomom’s Yard Sale

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Bruce Littlefield

Octomom and baby talk to press about the yard sale.

Octomom is selling her bra. Need I say more? Obviously. Nadya Suleman held an auction-style garage sale from her Orange Country home on Saturday to raise money to avoid home foreclosure. Items for sale included a bikini she apparently wore on a tabloid cover and kids’ Halloween costumes. What she needs to do is buy my garage sale book for great bartering tips to get the best price for her probably well-used nursing bra. Says the Washington Post: “While the children themselves weren’t for sale, photographs with the octuplets were available for $100.” That’s even one I’ve never heard of!

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Pop Culture Pop-Up – Reject Reality Shows

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Bruce Littlefield

It's reality!

NY Mag teamed up with TV execs to dish out this dirty little secret: There are reality show pitches that are so ridiculously absurd and awful, even Snooki says no. Many of them involve monkeys. For example, TV execs decided the American public would not be interested in an “Amazing Race” style show where contestants have to literally carry monkeys on their backs. It’s creatively called “Monkey On My Back.” I might have tried that! There’s also another reject called “Fertility Island.” Wait, how is that different from “The Bachelor”?

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Dinner Party Talk – For your weekend

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Bruce Littlefield

The infestation and hysteria spread: The NYC Nike Store closed because bedbugs, and Illinois declared war with a Bed Bug Summit.
Everyone’s a-Twitter. The president’s press secretary Robert Gibbs tweeted that he was “paging the tech guys” because his “Twitter went haywire.” Seems his Tweets were directing users to Japanese porn sites.
Paris Hilton admitted the coke was hers! and was immediately denied entry into Japan. Apparently, Tweetable porn sites are ok, but American plea-bargains… not so much. She’ll have to sell her smell stateside.
Pimple-popping popularity. The most downloaded application in the iTunes store is the free Pimple Popper game. Think it nostalgic, good practice, or disgusting.
Fall TV Premieres. The Hoff is already voted off Dancing with the Stars; nobody watched the cute guy on Lone Star; and the countdown has begun for the Britney Spears Glee episode. Oh, and Amy Poehler hosts the Saturday Night Live premiere this week with musical sensation Katy Perry, fresh off her role as Elmo’s cleavage-baring love interest on Sesame Street. It’s a must watch!
Music mayhem. Aretha Franklin’s singer son, Eddie, was savagely beaten in Detroit while pumping gas. And a last minute contract made sure Randy Jackson would be the sole original judge on American Idol, sitting next to Jennifer “I’m-looking-for-the-next-Michael-Jackson” Lopez and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler. But will we watch?
Wow, the Yankees won! Then, lost. Amazes me that baseball is a sport where it’s okay to only hit the ball two or three times out of 10. If a surgeon had a 30% completion rate, he’d be so outta there.
Now, eat your dinner!

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American Pets – Surf Dog Competition

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Bruce Littlefield

Almost 100 talented Cali dogs were at Huntington Beach last weekend for the Second Annual Surf City Surf Dog competition. Many pooches were content to watch from the beach, but there was a brood of talented, athletic dog surfers. 35 dogs were caught “hanging 20“, and what’s better than a bunch of cute dogs surfing for charity? I can’t decide if their four leg advantage outweighs the fact that these surfers are, indeed, dogs.

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Parties – Show Hope Event NYC

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Bruce Littlefield

Show Hope, will kick off their fall season with a fantastic party and silent auction in a fabulous rooftop setting. Founded by a talented bunch of young professionals, including my friend Ian Lane, ShowHope raises money for Hope Lodge NYC, which offers cancer patients and their families free, lodging when their best hope for treatment is away from home. Kudos to Ian and his pals–what’s better than themed cocktails, scintillating conversation and a night of doing good for others? I personally can’t wait to bid on the Costa Rica trip. YOU can bid, even if you can’t attend.

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American Icons – RIP Billie May Richards

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Bruce Littlefield

Billie May Richards, the voice of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, died recently in Toronto. She was 88. She’ll be remembered fondly, and as she told NPR in 2004: “”What better legacy can you leave than a show that everybody loves?” This is also a great opportunity to post a video of Herbie, the elf who wanted to be, you got it, a dentist. People are always telling me I remind them of him. I’ll take it as a compliment…Rudolph premiered in 1964 on CBS, and Herbie still looks great!

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What I’m Doing – Dog Days at Barnard College

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Bruce Littlefield

After attending the fantastically informative expert panel of Dog Days: A Scientific Look at Man’s Best Friend at Barnard last night, it’s safe to say I’ve got dogs on the brain (though, of course, when do I not?). Did you know that dogs come in the greatest range of shapes and sizes of any vertebrate that ever lived? Or that dogs have an extra nasal organ for sniffing out and processing certain scents? In fact, dogs “see” with their noses, as their eyesight ain’t so hot. Alexandra Horowitz, one of the panelists and a prof at Barnard, explains that’s why dogs like to roll in…ah…smelly stuff. To them, it’s not foul and disgusting–it’s just a richer smell! Does this also explain why dogs eat such strange stuff? It’s not a dirty sock! It’s a tasty scent-filled treat!

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Life 101 – First Day of Fall

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Bruce Littlefield

At exactly 11:09 tonight, the sun crosses the equator, marking the first official moment of fall, or autumnal equinox. In Fall, I always feel as busy as a squirrel. I love corn mazes, hayrides, and leaf peeping. My dog Wes loves the leaves, too, like this happy pooch. Other fall fun: the NYC Marathon (if you call that fun?!), apple picking (that link is my recommendations on Daily Beast!) and old fashioned pecan pie, a sweet Southern treat my grandma used to make me from pecans I picked in her yard. Tell me what YOU’RE looking forward to this fall!

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Gossip! – Cindy’s back in town!

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Bruce Littlefield

Yay! Cindy's well!

All summer long I said my prayers for Cindy Adams. The Post had ominously written on June 2 that “Cindy Adams is unwell.” It was worrisome. People whispered, is Cindy in a contract dispute? (I appeared in her last column on May 19 entitled “Nothing Fazes Wawa.” Was it something she said? I said?) Or was Cindy sick? (That sounds worse than unwell!) Cindy is New York! Her “Only in New York, kids. Only in New York” is a staple of New York life. But the headline today was Cindy is back! “Alive, well and taking notes!” God bless her doctors! Sounds like they brought her back from the abyss, saved by multiple surgeries and a “salad of meds surpassing whatever Lindsay Lohan might-ve once taken.” She said that her “5 foot 4 became their new passport to longer Wednesday-afternoon golf.” Welcome back, Cindy! We missed you. Keep taking notes, gorgeous!

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Gardening – Bulb planting

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Bruce Littlefield

Plant now. Payoff later.

One of the things that gets me through the long, cold winter is knowing I have bulbs in the ground, working up to their magical pop in the early days of spring. If you want to have a little miracle of life in your yard come March, now is the time to plant your bulbs! Go out this weekend and buy some bulbs. Daffodils, tulips, and crocuses are my favorite. Follow the easy planting directions on the package (make sure they are the appropriate depth and “heads up”) and you’ll have a real gift come spring.

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