Congrats Cashmere!

Congrats D. Griswold

And now...

Favorite summer dessert?

Jello pudding pops, but they don't make them any more. So this:

Anything with fresh blueberries.

becomes the default, but that's pretty much a given with me.

Beach or pool?

Beach. At night. Not big with the swimming, but I love sitting on the beach on a summer night. Especially when there's a full moon.

Predictions on the overplayed song of summer '05?

With the stations I listen to, so far it's NIN's "The Hand that Feeds"

What was your worst family summer vacation?

The only family vacations we ever took were to the U.P. so they all just sort of blur together.

your best?

See above

I even heard them playing a Billy Idol song that wasn't Rebel Yell or White Wedding.

You mean he actually wrote more than two songs? Wow! (More seriously, I'm not a fan of his new song they've been playing lately.)

You know what? Repetitions of "sqrt" in conversational prose may lead one to believe that squirting is a math function.

This is me. I just kind of scrolled past and my brain only processed lots of y's, x's and "squirting".

I had a friend who, after straining something while wanking, had to explain to the college health center several times that he'd never had sex, so the antibiotics weren't needed, and could they please tell him if he'd done severe damage to himself, thank you kindly.

I have a friend who went through that in reverse. He thought he had an STD, got everything checked out and was informed he just needed to cut back on the solo act for awhile.

Mmmm, gazpacho--a total summertime lunch item.

The only thing I can think of when I hear/see gazpacho is Red Dwarf.

Skipping ahead a lot to ask if anyone's guessed "Beverly Hills" by Weezer yet. Because twice is overplayed.

Definitely not their best effort. By a long shot. Though I didn't like "Hash Pipe" either, but that suffered more from being played to death than from just not being very good.

Skipping ahead a lot to ask if anyone's guessed "Beverly Hills" by Weezer yet. Because twice is overplayed.

I like Beverly Hills, but it's definitley not the best song on the album.

I just realized The Age of Innocence is on TCM. I'm missing it.

Uh, people have been busy.

Congrats, Cash & D.Gris for totally different things!

I have a sunburn. Somehow. Despite sunscreen. Not sure how it happened. I will never be a Civil War battlefield fan. But Gettysburg is pretty. And some of the sites are dramatic.

No parental murders. Though I did have to tell everyone to quit talking to me until I found a place to eat.

And now my neighbors are showing their good side and some kids are having a yelling argument in front. FUN!

I think I'll have to go with lisah's waterumelon as a summer dessert. Oh god. And you get knocked up side the head with it if you aren't careful.

For water immersion and play, I prefer the pool. For walking and thinking, beach under a full moon.

MY most overplayed song is probably "Just a Ride." The people to blame know who they are.

My worst summer vacation, I barely remember. But according to my parents, it was when I kicked my dad in the eye at age 3, leaving toenail in his cornea at a campground. That was my worst behaved, at least. I'm sure I whined like you wouldn't believe on countless other hikes we took in the summer, but I got over it.

Best? I don't know. As a family, they were all pretty equally idyllic once you subtract the sibling rivalry.

What song?

Argh... I'm not sure. Maybe "Group Four"? Now that I'm listening to the album trying to remember which one sounds like it, they all sound possible

Al Franken is on Letterman. Weeeeee!

I'm not normally a huge Best Week Ever fan because I find it very hit or miss, but tonight I had the joy of listening to "Ciara: Hermaphrodite?" rumors and that's just good times. It also made me think that maybe "Oh" will be the overplayed summer hit, but then again, it's kinda slow.

And Kelly Clarkson can't be overplayed.

And everyone should be eating avocado because I am eating it right now AIFG!

Cueing up these DVD's: Dangerous Liasons, Barry Lyndon, Les Miserables

Around sunrise I will be cursing the fact that I never learnt French well enough to read Eugene Sue in the original and swearing off brandy forever.

Dangerous Liasons is one of my favorites. (And I know I am spelling liasons wrong. There's a random free range I in there somewhere and I always miss it.)

Is this the Uma Thurman Les Miserables? Cause I like that one, too.

Man, good looking and great taste in movies. Is there anything you don't do, Gus?