It's certainly depressing to me. Asked to give me three things he learned from the class presentations, a student has managed to give me PART of the subject of his OWN presentation. Along the lines of "It goes from here to... someplace."

Hey, there are some Leverage fans here right? I've skimmed conversation about it in the last few weeks if I'm not mistaken. So, I taped a couple of eps and watched them with my boyfriend this weekend and we weren't really impressed. The eps were the one about rescuing the boy from Bosnia or Serbia, I can't remember which, by pretending to shoot a movie and the one where the infiltrate the mob wedding.

Are those particularly weak episodes? Also, we were wondering if how they got together was explained in the pilot. I was so disappointed because I love the cast.

Oh, lisah, I'm sorry you don't love it! It's very much Ocean's Eleven meets Robin Hood to me, and I adore the cast.

They get together in the pilot, yes -- Timothy Hutton's character recruits them for one job, which goes a little differently than planned, and then they decide to keep working together.

Cashmere, did you get the new issue of Blue Monday?

we were wondering if how they got together was explained in the pilot. I was so disappointed because I love the cast.

It was explained in the pilot. I don't think those were the strongest eps, but if they really didn't do it for you, this might not be the show for you.

Timelies all!

It's snowing here. I have a purring cat in my lap. If I didn't need to get lunch in a bit I wouldn't leave the house today.(Well, I had a doctor's appointment this morning, and ran some errands after, but I'm done with that)

The true history of the Bush years

Now, in this moment before a changing world overwrites our memories of the era, let us pause to salute our constant companion of those years: The Onion. Other histories of the Bush years will doubtless be more factual, but none will ever be truer.

Boing Boing sez:

Over on the Making Light blog, our Teresa Nielsen Hayden's put together the comprehensive list of Onion stories from the Bush presidency -- and since the headline is often the funniest part of an Onion story, this is fine fast reading indeed

I don't think those were the strongest eps, but if they really didn't do it for you, this might not be the show for you.

ah, bummer. I love a caper! But the writing didn't appeal to me at all. There were a couple of funny moments but not enough to keep me coming back.

I don't know what people are more excited about. Is it the awesomeness of the new president, or the end of the horror of the last 8 years?

For me, at least, it's mostly the latter, with a big splash of "I'm proud of my country again!" I spent a good portion of the concert a weepy mess for no reason I could think of, other than it's nice to feel hope again.

(I also felt that the crowd there was a bit of a disappointment, not getting into the concert as much as they could have. It was damn cold, though, so I should probably not feel too bad that they didn't do the usual "whooa-oh! whooa-oh!" during "Pride." The singers were great and I'm definitely keeping in on my dvr queue for a while to rewatch.)

Tom, I picked up my comic pull Saturday and it was in it! I haven't read it yet but I'm going to today! I had a huge pull, so it's taking time to get through everything.