Cat Bounce

In case you missed it: Cat Bounce. (via Swissmiss)

Back to campaigning. Only 11 days left. Please check to see if you are eligible for early or absentee-in-person voting. 

xo/gg

(photograph by Leslie Kirchoff)

Helping Kids Stay Creative

For an excellent list of sites to help kids stay creative, click over to My Life Scoop. There are a few GG faves & then some new-to-us.

Things are very busy here but we'll pick up the posting pace next week as we decamp to house-sit for Paris-bound friends.

ciao/GG/xo

(photograph by Jason Lee via My Modern Met)

The Cinementals

GG's human servant is looking for reasons to be cheerful. Again. So here's something....

The Cinementals is a good site for some classic film inspiration - whether you are in the States or not; whether you have cable or not. News, reviews, & podcasts written in smart, snappy style. The Twitter page sums it up: what's new in old movies.

ciao-meow/the management

PS: Free film noir

(Casablanca still via doctormacro)

A Free Internet

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

If you do not understand why certain sites are not available to you today, please watch the video. If you think you do understand what SOPA/PIPPA is & think, "but people should be paid for their content, it's a good idea," please watch the video. Every seemingly good idea is not implemented properly, causing wreckage. Please make your voice heard by following the links to the online protest. If you aren't in the States, believe us, this affects you - a lot. (Thank you to Swissmiss for the video link)

ciao-meow/GGCM

(image via Comically Vintage)

Monday Night at the Movies

You can go to the movies any night of the week, even with just a laptop, by checking out Open Culture's listing of 450 Free Movies Online. Most of them are accessible in all countries. There are Westerns, silents, drama, documentary, film noir, & more. A favorite here, especially in these difficult times, are comedies. Check out His Girl Friday with Cary Grant & Rosalind Russell. It's funny & has several points to make that will seem quite 2012.

ciao-meow/GGCM

(photograph via Dr. Macro)

A Story a Day Awaits

Head's up, readers: a free website with a new children's story each day.

By giving you a new story every day of every month, knowonder! is the perfect answer to help your child read twenty or thirty minutes every day and enjoy doing it!

Back to our holiday prep & re-prep: Giulia has just opened two packages. Not hers, either. Oof.

merry ciao-meow

(illustration via the Children's Room via Pinterest)

Holiday Lips

Giulia's editor is mid-computer crisis panic. It's not pretty but here are some pretty lipsticks. Yet another red-lipstick-is-it guide from The Guardian. Several favorites are on their list. Also, Joanna has excellent links, like this latest lipstick. Wish we could wear it. Beso has a Three Makeup Pick-me-ups that look good, too.

We'll try to be back tomorrow...

ciao-anguished-meow/GGCM

(poster by James Montgomery Flagg, 1930)

Have a Wonderful Weekend

If you're in the heat wave that is engulfing so much of the States, we hear you. Try & stay cool. Those in areas where it's 60s & 70s, stop complaining! (You are, we just read a bunch of comments about it. No sympathy for you, sorry.) GG's editor is concentrating on cool photographs & no-cook salads. (Also, of course, ice cream!) No links today. We're just limping along due to our continuing internet-less crisis.

ciao-meow/GGCM

(photograph via Inspired House of Wright)

Writing in Coffee Shops

Friday a.m. update - Giulia's editor remains in exile (for writing purposes) at a coffee shop. The little redheaded one remains at home. It's hot. As the kids say, this blows. All of it. Don't even get us started on the debt ceiling talks.

An article on writing in coffee shops. So far the charm eludes us. Fume.

ciao-meow/the Management

(photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson)

She Doesn't Get It

We're still trying to sort out this internetz connection crisis. Talk amongst yourselves. Visit the links on the right sidebar; also visit GG's editor on her blog where she is also complaining or on Twitter. She'll be sitting in a coffee shop in Washington, DC later today. You'll recognize her because she'll be shaking her head & saying out loud, "I don't get it! I absolutely don't get it!" Giulia is so glad that she can stay home.

ciao-meow/GGCM

(image via comically vintage)

Be Like a Duck

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.--Michael Caine

Hmmm. Blogger has the hiccups today. We hope to be back soon.

ciao-fume-meow/the Management

(photograph via Sunsurfer)