I'm glad to see that Denny's makes Nutty immediately think of me.

Also, Deli Haus! I feel like I did not make sufficient use of Deli Haus before it was gone, gone, gone. Many people went there after the club got out, but what with the lack of public transportation at night and my boyfriend living literally next door, I generally didn't indulge. Alas, Deli Haus, I hardly knew ye.

And in somewhat random news, MSN today is featuring a photo album on "Lovely Latinas": [link]

I think it's cool. After last year I feel much more conscious of the kind of invisibility of Latinos in popular culture.

Although I have no explanation for Gina Torres not being on that list. Gina Torres, people!

And finally, though a day late, I am apparently Love in the Time of Cholera: "Like Odysseus in a work of Homer, you demonstrate undying loyalty by sleeping with as many people as you possibly can. But in your heart you never give consent! This creates a strange quandary of what love really means to you. On the one hand, you've loved the same person your whole life, but on the other, your actions barely speak to this fact."

I'm The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

So I watched Sense and Sensibility, and I never read the book, and I have a couple of questions:

• Did Austen mean to imply that Marianne slept with Willoughby, or was that a liberty taken by the filmmakers?
• Is it also implied that Marianne caught a disease from Willoughby, or is that purely a figment of my imagination?

Timelies, all.

Ouch, sarameg. Clearly you need to look for wall-to-wall bubble wrap wallpaper in that house you're looking for, right?

I still hate ita's headaches and wish they would just fuck off and go away forever, but at least eliminating the misery of the stupid horrible days and nights in the ER battling over long-established meds is definitely a good good thing.

My dad used to take my brothers and me to a Denny's around the corner from his office on Saturday afternoons; I was always fascinated by the lounge, a dingy smoke-filled red-lit room off to one side behind old-fashioned Wild West swinging double doors. Such an illicit place where grown-ups might do any number of grown-up things (though in fact I think it mostly contained weary truckers and grumpy warehouse managers from the businesses along the docks).

And now I think I have to register for Yelp.com, because my college diner only has one review, and it's a grudgingly bestowed two stars, which is so unjust.

Tom, which version did you see? From my relatively recent reading, I'd say (1) liberty and (2) figment or further liberty.

Did Austen mean to imply that Marianne slept with Willoughby, or was that a liberty taken by the filmmakers?

I don't think so, as that would have been a HUGE deal. When Lydia runs off with Wickham in Pride and Prejudice, everyone fears that she's not only ruined her own reputation, but also ruined the marriage chances of her sisters.

Is it also implied that Marianne caught a disease from Willoughby, or is that purely a figment of my imagination?

I think that one's just you.

Tom, which version did you see?

The one that just aired on Masterpiece Theater.

Ah, I haven't seen that one, so I don't know what they might have added. But, yeah, if they implied that Marianne slept with Willoughby, that would be a breathtaking liberty.

Hey, here's a little something for Jon B.

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