I suppose the videos in which homicide is committed don't make it on the show.

Yeah, it's hard to get that waiver signed when there's screaming and blood and police yelling "Put down the cleaver, dirtbag!"

Yeah, it's hard to get that waiver signed when there's screaming and blood and police yelling "Put down the cleaver, dirtbag!"

They just put those on Cops.

Interestingly, the people on Funny Videos seem to take it in good part.

Well, they would need the people's permission to show it, so I would assume that pissed-off people wouldn't allow them to.

While I was elsewhere, SH has *stolen* my *thunder* in re: Lion in Winter. Because it is such a fabulous film, worthy of much quotage and pimpage, I'm posting my notes, anyhow.

you must see Lion in Winter!!! It's all so much excellent acting [snip] O'Toole as the aging horndog Henry II, and Kate Hepburn as the magnificent Eleanor), wrapped up in the most overwrought familial soap opera in history.

But bracket it with Beckett--Burton as Thomas, and O'Toole at the beginning of Henry's reign.

I forget who but someone really hot as their forgotten brother Geoffrey

Nigel Terry. Arthur in Excalibur

Doesn't Dalton play King Philip of France?

Yes. Apparent if unstated amour of...one of the brothers. Richard? Eventual Lionheart? Yes.

Someone, in some novel or other, mentioned a painting in one of the royal castles of an eagle besieged by three of his fledged offspring, obviously a royal reference to Henry II and his sons, which I never really understood till I saw LiW.

Geoffrey was played by British character actor John Castle, btw.

ETA: Um, lest that be taken as complaint, I'm all aglee at sharing the love of such a fabulous film with StuntHusband and FredPete.

Well, they would need the people's permission to show it, so I would assume that pissed-off people wouldn't allow them to.

Yeah. If you screamed "DIE MOTHERFUCKER, DIE!" as you leapt on someone and choked the shit out of them your lawer would probably advise against signing the release to air it.

I think so, yeah. The detectives would love you, though.

Why marrying for money isn't a bad idea

I'm not ashamed to "marry for money," if that's what would you can even call it, because I don't fundamentally believe it is the "man's role" to provide for women.

My actual motivations, as I see them, are pure enough. I know of great guys out there -- journalists, teachers, non-profit dudes -- who will probably make great dads. But I personally wouldn't pair up with them because, realistically, our two salaries together just wouldn't be enough to cut it for what I want out of life. But, but, but, "Bank accounts shouldn't matter at all!" And while I agree with that in theory, sorry, a man who can provide for me and our children is just much more attractive to me.

megan, Grammar Girl used to work with me, in 2000. She was an editor at an online magazine for caregivers. I used to have to correct her writing all of the time, and so I laugh that she's now got some sort of fame around grammar. I disagree with many of her "rules".

Olbermann gives Limbaugh Worst Person runner-up for suggesting that U.S. needs a coup

Wouldn't the ill-advisedness of marrying someone who manages money poorly also apply to any guy looking at the author as a prospective wife, what with:
1) living at the edge of her means,
2) carrying a lot of debt that she's unable to pay off,
3) being unwilling to move somewhere with a lower cost of living, and
4) wanting expensive stuff that can't be had on twice her income?