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Hey, BTW, I totally solved this week's NPR Weekend Edition puzzle. I rule!
A gentle reminder. Go see Emergency Contraception!: The Musical because it will rock your socks off.
But don't take my word for it. Here's what the critics have been saying ( Read more... ) -
Pimping!
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It started with a chair.
[Matthew Lillard in Scream voice: "I'll be right baaaaack!"]
(Incidentally, that is my favorite part of Scream. Also it is the only part of the movie I really remember. Also, Matthew Lillard is highly underrated. [Isn't "highly underrated" something of an oxymoron? In spirit, if not in fact? - Ed.] Not that he's made the best career choices by any ( Read more... ) -
Perhaps I missed a memo
Wait a minute - is it now acceptable to say has never hid? Maybe I'm misremembering my elementary school grammar. Or maybe someone has hidden the MLA from the NYTimes. (They use MLA style guidelines, right? Man, I just remember nothing from my schoolgirl days...)
ETA, more from the Times: "In a written response to Trojan, though, Fox said that it ( Read more... ) -
This entry was more interesting in my head, I think. Oh, well.
So, there's this coffee cart that I walk past every morning on the way to work, and it's got a big sign advertising "180° Boiled Coffee." Which confuses me, right? How does that work, exactly - do they boil the coffee first, and then let it cool to 180°? Or is the boiling point of coffee lower than that of water? I guess that's plausible. Anyone ( Read more... ) -
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I'm researching writing prompt books at work today; I haven't seen samples yet, but based on Amazon I think I'm going to recommend The 3am epiphany, both because it has the most evocative title and because it seems to have the most glowing customer reviews ( Read more... ) -
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Oh, man. So last night, I don't know what I did, but it apparently involved tying my neck into a knot while asleep, because this morning I woke up unable to turn my head to the left. It makes crossing the street really inconvenient ( Read more... ) -
Also, Carrie Fisher: STFU. kthxbye.
OK, so here is the major problem with On the Lot: it sucks. I watched it last night - and God knows why, because it wasn't like I didn't have anything better to watch, with The Wire beckoning seductively from the DVD player.
( But watch it I did, and now I've written a bunch - OMG so much, what the hell happened there? - about it. ) -
I guess this is Horseman One and Two
Sometimes those little news-crawlie things at the bottom of the screen are just too brief ( Read more... )