It's like The Who all over again....

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. -- Police shut down a suburban shopping mall for several hours Saturday after screaming fans of the boy band B5 rushed the stage during a free concert.

Five people suffered minor injuries, police said.

More than 2,000 fans, mostly teenage girls, had converged on Brookdale Center mall for the show, sponsored by the local Radio Disney station, KDIZ-AM. The band had only made it to the second song when the chaos broke out and girls began rushing the stage.

"It just seemed like a girl frenzy," said Christopher Taykalo of Radio Disney. "A lot of young teenage girls who were trying to get close to their artists that they are huge fans of."

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A "girl frenzy"? Shit, man - call out the National Guard!

For those of you needing a recap: Jesse lives in New York and does strange things to babies in her basement.

Wearing mud on your face ... it is a Buffistas thing.

ita, that nutritionist sounds odd. I had a lovely holistic nutrionist lady here, too bad you can't use her. OH! and on the idea of food making one ill, a friend was just diagnosed with ciliac(sp?) and was told taht getting it under control would increase his ability to gain weight, would reduce/end his migrains - and so I thought of you. I tend to had people making the "my friend had this, so you do too" jump, but it might be something to look into.

IIRC, Deena's Nick has ciliac, so if you decide to go that route, she might be a source of advice.

The thought of ita with no wheat makes me even sadder than the thought of ita with no chocolate.

Oh! Speaking of Carl Weathers, I had what, to me, is the fucking awesomest celebrity sighting this evening-- even though I should be seeing this person fairly frequently-- I saw Will Arnett at Staples. I did not squeal. I pretended to be obsessing over my choice of label maker. Bob says he seemed to be in a bad mood-- not surprising, I guess.

Huh. Totally not dead. I wonder why I thought he was.

The thought of ita with no wheat makes me even sadder than the thought of ita with no chocolate.

Me too! He told me to drop gluten and dairy. I told him I could lose the dairy, but I had hard-dough bread in my fridge, and I needed to eat it all first.

Right now, I'm so @@ about the iridology, that I want to ignore him entirely. But some of his stuff did makes sense.

Celiac? From looking at a quick google, since he thought it was okay I keep eating spelt and rye, I don't think he suspected that.

TiVo grabbed me SCTV. Wasn't funny. Grabbed me Monty Python. Funny.

::goes to google Will Arnett::

eta: ::returns, cackling::

I made blueberry muffins, but I forgot to add the blueberries. Possibly this indicates that I might need more sleep or something.

Not least because an illiterate 14 year old will have a much harder time learning to read than an illiterate person of younger age. The reason you go to school at a tender age is so that civilization can print all its little keys into your tender soap-bar. There's also the part where it's got to be pretty humiliating, trying to learn to read as an adult and realizing that second graders might have more mastery than you.

The Lockean idea of the Noble Savage doesn't seem as noble when being mocked by 8 year olds, does it?

I understand the concept that some children learn on their own and that some young children do, in fact, teach themselves to read. But I wouldn't trust that to chance for some hippy, granola idea that I'd be ruining my kid by pushing them to read before they hit puberty.

"I ain't got time to bleed."

I came this close to quoting that initially because it is one of DH's favorite movie lines ever. Along with, "I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum."