Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

My friend Dottie recently moved to San Francisco and is living off of her savings until she finds a job. Unfortunately, due to identity theft, her finances have been wiped out.

She’s one of the best photographers on Flickr (IMHO), and in order to raise money while she attempts to deal with getting a job and maybe her money back, too, she’s selling some of her wonderful prints.

You can also request prints of her other Flickr pictures NOT in that gallery. She won’t sell any of the pictures in the 365 set or pictures of friends, but anything else, she’s willing to consider. She’s really good, and I’m not just saying that because she’s in a bit of a fix. Anyone on Flickr knows about her and her talent.

Help a girl out!

Here’s a performance they did last weekend at the Cranford music festival in New Jersey.

Come see them headline the Cradle on Saturday. If you haven’t heard them before, please read the review I wrote after seeing them the first time and check out their MySpace page to hear some tracks.

If you aren’t convinced, please enjoy the following ACTUAL IM CONVERSATION I had with my friend Sooz in Boston last night (I sent her Talk Straight last week):

My next blog post was going to be about the brilliance of Andrew Bird, but I haven’t gotten around to that. This is too priceless to resist:

“Some plots are moved forward by external events and crises. Others are moved forward by the characters themselves. If I go through that door, the plot continues. The story of me through the door. If I stay here, the plot can’t move forward, the story ends! … Don’t do anything that may move the plot forward. Instead, let’s see if the plot finds you.” (Professor Hilbert of Stranger than Fiction)

This is a good philosophy when it comes to relationships, and a bad one when it comes to job-hunting. To that end, I am going to begin meeting with my friend Molly every Monday morning at a local coffeeshop so that we can help each other come up with a job-hunting plan for the week. She’s unemployed, too.

Now that she’s actually 65, I guess I’ll let her use those AARP benefits without giving her hell! Hope you have a great day, mom!