I'm going to have to go on record as stating that I like Renee Zellweger, a lot. I'm not keen on her scrunch-faced squintiness (though she's probably gotten hassled about it rather a bit by various industry peeps, so I do kind of like that she's just living with the squinty face and trying to make it work instead of going under the knife to "fix" it), but I've never seen her give a bad performance. She did give a profoundly unlikable one in that film where she was the overachieving daughter of Dying Meryl Streep, but that was more a combination of miscasting + unpleasantly written character than pure badness on her part.

By and large, I just like and admire her: she sings, she dances, she gives good regional accent, she has generally good taste in scripts, the tiny handful of gossip I've ever heard about her has been along the lines of, "Hey, Random Chick ran into her in Random Location and she did some unexpected Random Nice Thing for Random Chick!" I can't bring myself to like the squint, but it's the only thing in her negatives column for me.

Some people are just squinty.

But she's squinty and evil.

To be honest, I also don't like her voice and she's done very little I've liked watching, so the squinty stuff is just shorthand for the disdain.

Ever find exactly the product you want on the web but don't want to buy it because the web site is hideous? Yikes. Which reminds me--what's the name of that office plant that seems to grow in just plain water--a vine that you can just pick a bit off of to start your own offshoot?

I just stole the one from the cube next to me and am thinking of getting it a nice gel home, an upgrade to the Aquafina bottle where it currently lives.

I just watched Cold Mountain and Zellweger was fantastic.

I recall some mildly negative weight-based things about her from years back, but I've never heard of her being out-of-control towards people or plagued by rampant divadom.

That website is indeed hideous. The green background and waving flag should come with a warning!

the web site is hideous

so wait, the sale is in honor of the freedom our troops bring us?

office plant

Spider plant?

edit: (after scrolling down) nsfw! I love how you can't even google "spider plant" without finding porn.

Ever find exactly the product you want on the web but don't want to buy it because the web site is hideous?

All the time, but I'm a shameless snob about these things. That one had me making choking noises at the minty-green background even before the waving animated flag finished its inexcusably slow load.

My god, there's porn on the spider plant search page #1. But that's not the plant, though it has the same magic powers. I'm thinking of one with broader and shorter leaves.

I thought squinty mcstickperson was the worst part of Chicago. YSquintyMV

I am googling much safer things. As unlikely as it seems, two childhood best friends (second & the last, never concurrently and totally different paths) ended up in the medical profession (dentist, geriatric nurse) in Tyler, Texas.

So weird.

I also can't get over that C is a dentist. Last I saw him (admittedly, a very long time ago but damned he grew up gorgeous) I had no idea he was going that route. He'd just recovered from a notorious career in, um, manufacturing pharmaceuticals.