I used to live really close the Ruskin HS.

When?

Thanks for that info, JZ, scary and sad though it is. It's good to know that the science on VM isn't coming out of the writers' collective asses.

GG: Lorelai would be a lot better off if she'd thought of Oz's "I'm sorry you're having a hard time with this" line rather than The Way We Were (which I haven't seen, so that whole long explanation did very little for me). Woman needs to stop talking occasionally and listen.

Catching up from yestersay. (eta) Day. What y'all said yesterDay. Could be yestersay.

Having watched all 4 eps, I agree with DX and disagree with Beverly -- the body language in #2 was part of the episode itself, and not indicative of consistent hugely awkward socialisation on the geek's part.

I missed the premiere, caught the second, where he was hunch-y, and third, where he was not, and from those two samples made my assumption. But having watched the fourth and seen that his "normal" body language isn't withdrawn and defensive, I disagree with me and agree with ita and DX. I can do that, right?

Great eyes,

Um, yes. Now that, uh, you mention it.

and I think he's a good actor--actually I think the show has a terrific all round cast.

I do too. And I love the fact that Hirsch, Morrow and Crumholz all have a superficial facial resemblance that's believeable as "family".

About Medium--I'm not sure whether I like the show, so much as I love her husband and his reactions to her. And I've had to flat admit I love Patricia Arquette. I've seen more bad movies and tv-movies simply because I love to watch emotions play across her face. Not a crush, so much as I'd just want to have her face on a screen somewhere to watch. Similar to the way I'd like to put Marc Dacascos in his Mani quise of paint, tat, and loincloth, on a pedestal in a corner of my room and light him. And the way I wanted Sulu's head in teak.

This is very funny: (has sound) [link]

bon bon, this is from ages ago, but when I was trying on wedding dresses I was told that sleeves were a bad idea because they couldn't be made to fit right and would restrict movement and feel binding and what I really wanted was a strapless gown with a shawl. This came from a salesperson in a shop with nothing buit strapless gowns. Anyway, I eventually found a dress with sheer sleeves and nothing heavy about it, and it was entirely comfortable. So sleeves are not as impractical as they may seem, just hard to find.

Any New Yorkers hear me on the radio this morning? Actually it would've been about 11:40 East Coast time.

Has the CI aired yet which takes place among a group of goths (Or TV's version of goths, anyway)? They're a fan group for an Anne Rice type of writer. I was wondering if any actual goths saw it and what they thought.

I saw this, which is bizarre because, like I said, I don't watch L&O. Mr. H was with me, and we'd just been talking about the NO F2F. He had a bit of a freakout, until I told him- "But it's not like we're going to hang around dressed like Evil Willow....That's just for you."

Jon's theory: having her head bashed in as opposed to poison or something less brutally violent lends credibility to it.

Hec, I tried, but my computer didn't have the right software, and the new stupid administrator settings won't let me download any software or make any changes whatever to any of the applications on my hard drive (this includes not being able to download a particularly pretty Art Nouveau freeware font for Word, or delete the stupid skateboarding game that some crack-addled tech upstairs thought I would just love). So, no interview for me.

Was it brilliant? (How could it not be? If you can manage coherent and thoughtful for a 5 a.m. radio interview, 8:40 should be a breeze.)

What -t Said. Bear in mind that until recently most churches wouldn't *allow* strapless wedding dresses, so there are several decades' (centuries'!) worth of evidence to prove that sleeves work just fine. My mother's wedding gown, which I wore, had cap sleeves. Princess Grace's wedding gown had long tight sleeves.

As a friend of mine pointed out years ago, "Oh, you can't get that any more" often means either "I can't be bothered to check the inventory" or "Our store doesn't carry that and I don't want you to shop someplace else."