I wonder if there's an Albino brownie recipe. All white chocolate and stuff.

Blondies.

Well, you do accept the idea of chocolate cake with no frosting, right?

Not by choice. GIMME FROSTING!!!

the amount of leavening and density of crumb

Ah. Got it.

ita, the fastest Google in the West.

You people need to stop talking about teh chocolate. I'm trying to lose weight, and that's not helping, because I desire multiples of all of the above. I want hard chocolate frosted dense brownie walnut butterscotch easter egg squares NOW, damnit!

What. She. Said.

Tho' I suppose if I have half a brownie, and do my Pilates tonight, the Body Image Demons should be sorta-kinda quiet.

I have brownie mix.

No thanks for reminding me of that, though.

Ummm, love blondies too.

No chocolate craving. Weird. But I did teach somebody, via my Secret Literary Boyfriend, the Greek for "pussy" today. So I guess it was good I got up this morning, if not in a "Dear Diary" sort of way.

Too bad I went to sleep before getting your guys' responses about the whole Rory = slut thing. Still gonna respond, though it's been a while.

Don't get me wrong, I don't like much about Rory this season at all, and I really don't like that they had her have an affair with a married man. Especially a man who got married pretty much to spite her, from what I can tell. It was selfish, stupid, ill-advised, completely evil and unfair to poor little Lindsay, and should have screwed her over a lot more than it did.

But it's not like she cheerfully continued screwing him behind his wife's back for months or years. She had sex with him twice, in a two-day period, in the heat of passion or whatever-the-hell. Lack of self-control? Sure. Incredibly slutty behavior? I don't think so. The term "slut" seems to imply to me that she would feel no remorse for her behavior and, no matter what she said to Lorelai about it, she clearly did. She ran away to Europe for two months with Emily, for God's sake, just to pull herself away from the situation! If I had found myself in such a screwed-up mess, my response would be something similar. Take myself away from it so I can get perspective and then act.

And she acted correctly. She tried to pull out, to end the illicit affair. The exact results? Not good, clearly. But if the letter had not been found, Dean would have either split or not, his own decision.

Maybe the strength of my reaction is purely because I don't understand the term "slut." Some dictionaries say it can mean simply "an adulterous woman" which I suppose Rory fits. But then the girls that get called "sluts" in high school aren't, because the football team, generally, isn't married. The term "slut", to me, has come to be synonymous with "sexual manipulator" or at least "shamefully easy" (only with even more disdain and judgmentalism - God, I really hate the word) and I don't believe that Rory fits those meanings.

There's no correlation for me between "slut" and "sexual manipulator." To me it means "person who boinks with people they shouldn't have sex with."

So Rory was a slut.

A man who bangs a married woman and is even momentarily defiant about it is a slut in my book too.

Huh. Okay. Fair, then.

So the mislabelling is actually those girls in high school? Because, you know, much as I find it distasteful, having a who-can-give-the-most-blowjobs-to-football-players contest isn't really something I would actually qualify as "shouldn't".

As for the man thing: I'm sure you do think that. It's one of the reasons I love this board and the people on it. But I'm sure that if Dean were the main character, "Dean is a big fat slut" would not have become a major internet expression, you know?

To me it means "person who boinks with people they shouldn't have sex with."

Huh. To me it's all about frequency.