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They're too cute! Love the costumes, too!

TSJ, is this the picture you want?

My cousin's baby as Rapunzel: TSJ, your girls are adorable!

I heard a comedian say recently that Jaden Smith is so bad, he's actually killed his father's career.

Finally finished this one: If you want to be so paranoid you never leave the house again, I highly recommend it! Really fascinating, including the history of HIV. Current thinking is that it's been present in humans for 100+ years, and there are fascinating biological/social/political theories in this about how/why it jumped from Africa to Haiti to the rest of the world. Also: SARS, Ebola, West Nile, Lyme... all the biggies! Currently reading: to be followed by the first two volumes of Saga (), and the Hunger Games and Catching Fire (in preparation for the movie in a few wee

I know, I couldn't figure out a better way to phrase that! I also didn't get enough sleep last night.

I think I gained 10 pounds during the 2010 post-season, I ate pizza while watching nearly every game.

We've been watching old cartoons with the kids. They've got sort of a Morris the Moose thing going on:

Children of the Candy Corn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYHR_laVaj4

I was just coming in here to say that! Every time I buy a doughnut, I think that. (I bought doughnuts this weekend, and giggled as I did so.) My sisters and I all use the same transit stop to get to work, and the escalators are rarely in service. We will often mention to each other that the escalators are still temporarily stairs.

Better men than you have been suckered in, then chased away by torch-wielding villagers.

I've been holding off listening to this until I can just sit and appreciate it, but it looks great: http://colorlines.com/archives/2013/10/cl_special_a_jay_smooth_autumn_mixtape.html

She talked on her podcast about attending a few shows on that tour. She also mentioned trying to get backstage at one show, but being blocked by Bob Dylan's people (I think that was the story, I listened to it a while back), but she said she was texting with some of the guys in Wilco that night, and they were going to get her in to a later show. So it sounded like she's been friendly-ish with them for a while. (I'm "meh" on most of her stand-up, although I do think she's had some funny and/or touching moments. And I like just listening to her talk (her podcasts, other interviews, etc.), m

Excellent, thanks! I'll report back as I make my way though the list.

I don't read a ton of comics, and I was never able to read the individual issues, I always wait until there are a few collected volumes to plow through. But in the past few years I've read The Unwritten, Walking Dead, Locke & Key, and Fables, and enjoyed all of them (in order, probably The Unwritten is my favorite, then Locke & Key, Fables, and Walking Dead last; a bit too much gore in that one...). I'm also open to suggestions!

OK, so since I checked in a month ago, I've read the next 10(!) volumes of Fables, plus and now I'm in the middle of I'm all over the board! Oh, and for the Faulkner roll call from several weeks back: I've only read Go Down, Moses. I've had The Sound and The Fury and As I Lay Dying cued up for years, but never seem to get to them. Important things like graphic novels about fairy tales and the stories of the people behind classic 70s sitcoms just seem to keep taking precedence...

5+ years after I started this thread. My dad has since passed away, but he and I both became addicted to podcasts in the years before he died. Mostly comedy for me. For several years now, my favorite has been Walking the Room. I also enjoy The Dork Forest, Never Not Funny, The Bugle, Dana Gould, Doug Loves Movies, Greg Proops' The Smartest Man in the World, and the occasional WTF and Nerdist. I listen to most of these only sporadically. Note to podcasters: an hour plus, twice a week, is too much and too often. You can have an hour a week, or if you get a really good guest, split that

Very late to the game on this one, but this summer I read Ready Player One and really enjoyed it. It's a little bit young adult-y, but the whole premise is built around modern (set in the near-future) teens immersing themselves in 80s pop-culture references, so I had a lot of fun with it. i described it to my 16 year old niece and 14 year old nephew as "the Hunger Games takes place inside World of Warcraft". They didn't believe me at first, but then each of them devoured it in one (long) sitting. (My sister told me that she went out to work one morning and left my nephew sitting on the cou

Happy birthday, Natalie! Miss you.

I'd rather see a show about journalism, with the backdrop of the personal relationships of the characters to each other. Every time this happens, I've started to question it, and it takes me out of any connection to the story. Even if they're just showing the stories that have these personal connections with the staff, would those connections really come up all that often?

The show would be much more fun if she did! And since I'm not only bothered by the depiction of the women in this thing... How realistic is it that every story that comes up, either someone on staff has a personal relationship with someone who can serve as a source, or will refuse to be a source because of the personal relationship, or else the story is just dropped in the producers' laps? (Occupy Wall Street lady just happens to tip them off about someone who can serve as a source on a story that she doesn't even know they're working on; Maggie's roommate knew Casey Anthony; Maggie dated a

a. I'm not questioning anyone's credibility on these issues. I'm just stating my own case, trying to back up why I feel the way I do about these characters. If the writer of this article disagrees with me, so be it. We're all entitled to our opinions. b. "This is the writer that gave us Abby Bartlet, CJ Cregg, and Nancy McNally." This might be exactly why I'm so disappointed with the women on The Newsroom.

I never really saw anything in Maggie's story line that would give her credibility as an associate producer, and the Africa assignment seemed like she was getting thrown a bone, as much as anything she'd earned. And Jim is just an asshole. That thing that he was doing to Lisa in the last episode, harassing her at work after she'd already been warned by her boss to get rid of him, is exactly the same thing he did to her in the dress shop in the first season. Her job matters to her, Jim, just because it's not THE NEWS doesn't mean that it's not worth even acknowledging that it's happening.