Her brother drove a jalopy! (Hee -- jalopy. I still only think of that one car, because it was where I learned the word.) No, of course they weren't actually poor, just book-universe poor. I can't believe I don't know who the Lynches are. I should re-read those books, or maybe I shouldn't.
I bought the first sixteen from a used book store a couple of years ago and reread them all. I was kind of blown away to realize that, like ita said, the "poor" Belden's were really just middle class. And what a world of privledge...staff and maids and chaffeurs. The Bob-whites of the Glen were totally the Gossip Girls of their day. Except suburban and goody-goody. ETA: Imagine if Blair, Serena, Chuck, Doofus, and Little Jenny fought crime? And wore matching jackets!
So I assume it's Monday and I'm at work, instead of me dreaming this. Bah.
ION, the final Space Shuttle servicing mission to Hubble is scheduled to launch today at 1:01 EDT (10:01 board time).
I still can't wrap my head around eating a vending machine cheeseburger, though. ::shudders::
Ahahaha- that reminds me of the Newsradio episode when Bill McNeil was addicted to the nasty sandwiches in the vending machine and freaked out about them take them away.
"Just like mom used to make."
Article from 1926, about a KKK baseball team playing a Jewish baseball team. [link]
Speaking of Craiglist-- why are all entertainment center's hideously ugly? New, used, inexpensive or expensive, they are all terrible looking to me. I know this is partially because I can't stand "oak" grained things, or really anything that is "fake wood" AND I don't like black lacquer AND I don't like real wood that is "country- style", but still...
The Bob-whites of the Glen were totally the Gossip Girls of their day. Except suburban and goody-goody.
Heh. It's a little 90210, with the contrast between the fabulously wealthy and the just regular. Also, in retrospect, I totally thought they were out in the country, but probably not, huh?
Just in time for me to go back to work, my dog appears to have gotten over her 48 hours of diarrhea. Woot. I'm sure eating three meals in a row of white rice doesn't hurt.
In other news, apparently Roxana Saberi has been released by the Iranian government! That's excellent news.
Also, in retrospect, I totally thought they were out in the country, but probably not, huh?
Well, Bobby did get bitten by a cottonmouth or something (and Trixie had to suck the venom out), so they had to be kind of in the country. I always thought they somehow lived on a nature preserve (didn't they go patrolling for poachers ?)
