and Osama Bin Laden.

Their definition of "celebrity" is interesting.

I learned that the secret to making the bad weather go away is to get my hair cut extremely short the better to withstand the soul-crushing heat. Pre-haircut, 90º. Post-haircut? 76º! Brilliant!

I fully endorse this summer strategy.

JZ was having a regional-diction-gasm listening to Elsa go all Yorkshire on Mary Lennox's ass. Elsa used to have a cabaret show where she specialized in novelty songs based on regional dialects and such. She was hammering her "thou"s and giggling in her ever so daft fashion.

Dean Stockwell was thoroughly perverse as Colin. An absolute goth-boy-in-training until he's reconstituted by the garden. You could draw a straight line between his performances in A Secret Garden and Blue Velvet.

Also, what would we do with a base on the moon 10-15 years from now?

I think reasonable spending on exploration and science isn't a bad thing. I don't know if a base on the moon would be the most productive use of NASA's 17 billion dollar budget though. Bear in mind that defense spending is about 460 billion dollars.

I think reasonable spending on exploration and science isn't a bad thing. I don't know if a base on the moon would be the most productive use of NASA's 17 billion dollar budget though. Bear in mind that defense spending is about 460 billion dollars.

I think robot exploration of our solar system is best bang for the buck. But I wouldn't mind a base on the moon. You've got to consider the PR angle, which generates interest and financing.

Also, what would we do with a base on the moon 10-15 years from now?

What wouldn't we do!

Seriously, I do see this point, but...moon! Base! Base on moon! Want!

Why am I not surprised by David's endorsement of Jessica's strategy?

So, that version of Secret Garden is on TCM? I hope it repeats at a time when I can see it.

I learned that today it is really gorgeous outside and I wish I could take the afternoon out to enjoy the perfect temperature, the sun and the wind.

Also, that if you can get a thick straw to drink you milkshake with that is what you should do.

I have learned that just because you dislike people and think they are incompetent doesn't mean they won't want to hire you if they become a principal at a new school.

Also, I have learned that it occasionally pays to look like a princess of the junior league.

A base on the moon could be a great location for telescopes of various types. However, I worry that it could end up an expensive fiasco that sets back good science.

Also, what would we do with a base on the moon 10-15 years from now? Are we anticipating alien invasion? Is Mars really all that lucrative?

Once we're out of the Earth's gravity well and in the moon's much smaller well, further exploration gets cheaper and easier.

I, personally, am all for asteroid mining.

How else are we ever gonna get flying cars, after all?

Hey, has it gotten all cool out down here too?

Well, it is 85 and not nearly as humid today...

The NGST (now known as the James Webb Telescope) was proposed as a project in 1989. Mind you, a telescope. Been done before.

Its schedule is STILL slipping.