I vote balcony gardening. It's instant gratification, something pretty to look at that. Bonus, it isn't something that needs to be done, so it is something you are totally indulging just for you. And after a move, you could use that.

I can't even imagine how long Dev would sulk if I move. (Most) cats hate change, but she's a champion of hate. She's still not pleased with Mister Kitty.

Bunches of Stephen J. Cannell shows going on itunes - including:

21 Jump Street
Greatest American Hero
Hunter
Wiseguy.

Go Ruby!

Oh thank you thank you for the link shrift. It was blurry but big enough so I could, you know see what was happening. And Patrick's hips!

Patrick totally owns it, and by that I mean he exploded my brain.

How so hot, tiny little man?

I was thinking that Patrick is hot specifically because he is, like, a stealth hottie. Like, you don't know he's hot, and then, wham, there it is. Perhaps my straight male friend can't see that, cause I think he doesn't even see stealth hotties in girls.

Um, also I hate surveys that ask my ethnicity. I mean, I am white, but I think my "ethnicity" is Italian American, you know.

sophia - can you write in 'human' ?

I was thinking that Patrick is hot specifically because he is, like, a stealth hottie. Like, you don't know he's hot, and then, wham, there it is.

I have joked in the past that I went from "oh, hey, he's that dude in that one band, I think I like his voice" to "JESUS CHRIST, PATRICK STUMP, I WANT TO HAVE YOUR BABIES" pretty much overnight. I'm not entirely sure how it happened. I blame YouTube.

White is not an ethnicity. You can be white and fucking Latina. I mean, if you can be black and Latina, why can't you be white and Latina?

Any opinion on the Miley Cyrus/Annie Leibowitz kerfuffle? I have to say, I probably wouldn't let photos like that of my fifteen year old be published. I'm not sure how they didn't work out their inappopriateness at the time, even if they weren't digital photographs that were immediately reviewed.

Now I have to google the Jamie Curtis topless kerfuffle she refers to here. I disagree with her--I don't think there's anything wrong with a fifteen year old coming to terms with her burgeoning sexuality, but that's not the same as portraying it as part of your publicity package. Just because it turned out okay for Jodie Foster and Brooke Shields doesn't mean it wasn't creepy.

I have to say, I probably wouldn't let photos like that of my fifteen year old be published. I'm not sure how they didn't work out their inappopriateness at the time, even if they weren't digital photographs that were immediately reviewed.

That's pretty much my take. If it were my daughter, she'd have her top on, end of story.

The creepiest part of the Younger Cyrus thing is that her topless photoshoot included her father. I mean, I haven't seen topless + father in the same picture, but. Way to foreground the creepy!

The image in question strikes me as classic Leibowitz, i.e. lovely; but the kind of thing that, once you know the context, i.e. the subject is underaged, the loveliness is a little appalling.