That does it, JZ. You're just going to have to produce a boychild so people on the internets can have our name prefs indulged.

It's from Monday, and refrigerated since? I would totally eat it.

Heh. I was trying to talk myself out of eating it because I wanted a burrito not MORE LEFTOVERS. I just decided to throw the soup in the freezer here (it's in an appropriate container) and get the DELICIOUS BURRITO.

Food Network loves: Alton Brown, Jim O'Connor (not a chef but he cracks me up), Mario Battali (though what's up with all the bottled sauces in the grocery now??) MORIMOTO OMG.

Food Network likes: Ina Garten, Paula Deen (though I don't think I have ever/would ever cook anything she makes) The Calorie Commando, the Low Carb & Loving It guy (because the are both kind of dorky) Michael Chiarello

Food Network so-so: Bobby Flay (though it pains me) Sara Moulton, Giada, that new dude on the budget cooking show

Food Network hate: Ray-Ray, Emeril, Sandra Lee

I have now opened myself up to much mocking. I never said I was cool!

{{-t}} Thinking of you.

I like Gabriel, and have a friend with a 4 year old with this name, shortened to Gabo.

Way back on Edith: My mother's grandmothers were Mary and Edith, and so my mother was named Meredith. I've always thought that was a nice, neat solution to honoring them both.

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I'm so sorry.

Ina Garten

Can't stand her, but for some reason end up watching her anyway. A couple weeks ago she said something along the lines of "I need to cook nice meals so that my husband will want to come home to me after his business trips." So annoying.

There's a fantasy novel whose name I can't now recall, by a friend of Lewis's named Charles Williams, about an impending apocalypse in which the universe is disintegrating into formless chaos, and doom is averted by the act of Naming.

Not The Never-Ending Story? My memory of that is quite fuzzy, but I remember that's how the boy-hero triumphs, by Naming the Queen(?).

sj, I would LOVE to visit you East Coast-types. Just have to figure out the $$$....

Gabbo will tell us what to do...

t /Homer Simpson

I like the name Meredith.

It was in the restricted zone, however, and thus not an option for us.

The restricted zone was as follows: no names starting with M; no names starting with P (too many in Paul's family already, including the dog); no names ending in -bel, -bol, bal, or -belle.

So many names I really liked a lot were in that zone.

{{{{-t}}}}} My thoughts are with you and your family. You've been through so much. I hope you're ok.

Definitely not The Never-Ending Story, but damned if I can remember what the title actually was.

I also remember that when I raved about it to my friend Shel (who, interestingly, chose his own first name, and who just got married and is changing his last name), he said that if that was what pinged me, I really needed to read a novel by Ursula LeGuin called _______... and I can't remember the title of the LeGuin either.

I have two to-be-read lists: the list of the books that are actually lying around the house that I'm working my way through, and the list of can't quite remember but know I meant to read them eventually if I can only remember the title, but I know it was the one with the cover, by that guy.