Archive for the 'la famiglia' Category

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: VloMo08, la famiglia

Little booboo, my Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca BananaFanaFoFesca The Third, is the funniest kid ever.

She’s a Sporty Little Spice and has Miniature Golf all figured out; including duplicating the required hole-in-one crowd reaction.

(okay, in her case it was a hole-in-eleven, but give her a break, she’s 16 months old!)

And thanks for all the encouraging comments, folks, I’m llooking forward to Thursday (my next day off) so I can actually WATCH some dang VloMo ‘08 videos!!!

September 21, 2008 | Filed under: 30 seconds and under, la famiglia

For whatever reason, ALWAYS funny!

July 8, 2008 | Filed under: get meta with me!, la famiglia, misadventures

I’ve been sitting on this footage long enough.

When we were on vacation in Istanbul last Winter the majority of our evenings were spent in our cute little hotel room shooting the breeze and enjoying a light (second) dinner of cheese, wine and halvah. Me, my Mom and her BFF Sally together on a grand international adventure (a good deal of which was spent in our cute hotel room enjoying wine, cheese etc).

I’ve shot and posted family fun before, but sometime between then and now my Mom decided she didn’t want to be featured on the blog any more. She never really explained why no matter how many times I asked. I guess it’s just too strange to her– too personal.

For me, it’s different. The more personal the better. We didn’t take family movies when I was young, so to me capturing these moments is like a special gift. I get to keep them forever, living them again and again as I choose. Granted, I don’t re-watch 85% of the videos that I post.

But this one? This one falls into that remaining 15%. I’ve watched it ten times in the last hour already. It’s special to me, and it’s mine.

Sorry, Mom. I had to do it. I couldn’t help it. I think it’s just too dear to keep to myself.

March 17, 2008 | Filed under: get meta with me!, la famiglia

Apparently, it’s genetic. My family has a cellular desire to broadcast themselves. My sister’s cable access TV show gets streamed on the internet, and I finally got to tune in. It’s a gas.Maybe we should do a show together?  

November 9, 2007 | Filed under: NaVloPloMo 2007, la famiglia

The best thing about going through old footage is unearthing a gem you didn’t know you had. This is a treat from my family’s last visit to Planet Nana down in Miami. My 86 year old Nana is just too much. She’s sweet and sassy and ornery and funny and can at times be bitingly cruel, but damn, that old broad can dance!

She also really hates being filmed. She’ll pose for photos, but she made it clear early on that she didn’t want to be videotaped. It worked out well that half the time I had my camera out she thought it was a cellphone. Actually, she made it clear in 1983 that she hated being recorded. I guess I was a born vlogger: I was one of those annoying kids who carried a cassette recorder everyplace and tried to take interviews of friends and family or record important life events like my first unsupervised New Year’s Eve party. It was impossible to get Nana to talk on tape about her life.
I should dig that New Year’s Eve tape out.