Asleep – and Buying Most small town bred nineteen year olds don’t become instant international superstars, so perhaps it’s unsurprising that Chris Colfer is acting silly. The star of Glee is now buying – in his sleep. Admitting the soporific truth before Ellen DeGeneres, his purchases remain instructive: a giant framed portrait of Marie Antoinette, […]
Music to fall asleep (10/30/10)
The Pleasures of a Calm Mind The bard wrote “music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.” Apparently that also includes people. Britain’s Travelodge is one of the few hotel companies that publicizes the sleep quality(ies) of its clients. Due to this hotelier we know that when the financial meltdown hit Europe, their average sleeper […]
The Spanish Siesta Champion Wins, but the Siesta and Naps Lose (10/25/10)
And the Winner Is… The competitors came to the middle of Madrid’s Islazul shopping center ready to lie down and compete. There were 360 who came to demonstrate to the judges their flair for imaginative bedclothes, weird resting positions, capacity to fall instantly asleep and overall “quality” of snoring, but only one returned a winner. […]
Some don’t need much sleep (10/7/10)
Sleep Styles of the Rich and Famous Pity Wyclef Jean. The entertainer had hoped to become president of Haiti, but his candidacy was thrown out by the national electoral commission supposedly because Jean had lived in New Jersey and not the disaster plagued island these past five years (New Jersey Tourism Commission, please note.) Overcome […]
Celebrity Rehab and the Power of Rest (9/29/10)
Treatment through the Power of Rest Rest is regeneration, and people are so stressed out they need that reset now. Two months ago in Huffington Post I wrote about how performance pressure, crazy hours, adulation, the end of privacy and the insanity of show business lead many performers into preventable addictions. Yesterday I learned Lindsay […]