Gen Y, who are not Gen X's children (hello to the word "generation"!), are to be blamed for Britney and the boybands.

Hey, now!

Ok, yeah, that's fair.

But it's not like everyone from the Boomers on haven't had boybands in one way or other.

Still no explaination as to why he ran out of Buffy and Joyce, however.

There's never enough Buffy to go around -- ask Spike and Angel.

How was Almanzo pronounced on the Prairie? I can't hear a pronunciation in my head without the short "a."

Happy Birthday, Sophia!

I admit I like House more for the characters and dialogue than for the plots. For me, the plots are mostly devices for to develop the characters and to give them something to snark about. So as long as the conversations remain interesting and I can ignore Cameron I'm not going to care much about the formula.

Plus, they had Italian motorcycles at the end of last night's episode! It totally ignited my semi-latent bike oost. Seeing that made me several kinds of happy, one or two of which weren't even hormonally based.

On the TV show they pronounced it Al-mon-zo. So instead of "man" it was, well, "mon".

It's like somone was trying to make him Jamaican. Or FAKE Jamaican... the writers could be from the same island as Kendra.

I've managed to watch Prison Break (what is it about a cute guy that's obsessed, but not with a chick?).

Oh, good, I'm not the only one still watching. I think I am little bit in love with WM. He is my fall TV boyfriend.

Suppose you were trapped in an office building for a year or so. So you're only source of food (after the vending machines were emptied) would be food that you could grow in the windows or on the roof. (In my scenario you couldn't trap and eat pigeons.) What would be the best food to grow? Something that would grow fast, be productive, have a large percentage of the plant be edible, etc. (Assuming that getting the seeds or dirt to grow it in would not be an issue.)

I have given up wondering why my brain comes up with these questions - I've decided just to go with it....

Bean sprouts. Very nutritious.

I like calling him Almanzo, though he's still warming up to the nickname. Then again, the one nickname he's come up with for himself is Bob.

I totally likes yours better. It's even better than "Manly".

I'm fine, thanks. Just finished TAing a summer class that ate my time completely, so now I have to make up for the actual work I've missed with that. Oh, and I just learned that the thing my friend's 9.5-months-old baby finds the funniest in the whole world, even through a telephone wire, is my laughter.

Still no explaination as to why he ran out of Buffy and Joyce, however.

I still can't help thinking "no, Almanzo would have never done that!". "Little House on the Prairie" was the first show I can remember my mom sitting with me and translating for me, since I was too young to read the subtitles (or definitely understand the English), so by now I guess I'm conditioned to like him (or any one of them, for that matters).

How was Almanzo pronounced on the Prairie? I can't hear a pronunciation in my head without the short "a."

In my head, the 'a' in 'man' is like the 'a' in "Aragorn". Trudy's mind's ears are probably more accurate, though.

Dana, I hope today gets better for you.

Happy birthday, Sophia!!!

It's not that House is a medical show. It's that it's a mystery show, and unless you're The Inside, it's probably going to be solved preeety close to the end of the airing hour (with enough time for "chase" and "arrest," if needed).

Yeah, right on. It's like how on the Celebrity Poker Showdown, you know if someone goes all in at X:56, they're going to lose.

But did it really define a generation? Which one?

Um, no. It defined a group of wannabe fake Bohemians, maybe. Even as much as I love Rent, if it "defined" any "generation," it would have been mine, and not so much.

Bean sprouts. Very nutritious.

Oh, that's a good one.

I was also thinking maybe wheat sprouts. Nummy and kind of sweet. But I don't think you'd actually end up with more food than if you just ate the wheat seeds - I think you gotta eat them when they're really young.