Sending lots of wedding~ma to Kristin and ND. (Personally, I think you should use the Bride Card. Be an asshat - it's part of Bridal Privilege, no?)

Thanks, Sumi. I've been referred to their "Member Satisfaction Department," so we'll see where that goes.

I have to say, it's kind of awesome (I mean truly AWE) to be in a room of 200+ inner city kids listening to opera and have them cheer. The guy who is doing the workshop is rocking it, to mix music.

That's amazing, Kat!

"Who Am I This Time"

Launched a lifetime love of PBS, that did.

I had a customer at B&N this afternoon who was buying copies of a new(ish) mystery series featuring Oscar Wilde as the crimesolver, and I mentioned WAITT to her. She'd never heard of it, but got so interested in it that she wrote it down to order the dvd.

WAITT

Wilde Adventures in Time Traveling ?

Who Am I This Time, which ends with the Walken character proposing to the Sarandon character using the dialogue from The Importance of Being Ernest, after they've met as Stanley and Stella Kowalski, and then courted as Romeo and Juliet, amongst others. (He's a pathologically shy hardware store clerk who only blossoms when he's on stage, and she adjusts her expectations to meet that need of his to communicate through plays.)

Huh! Interesting.

It was filmed for American Playhouse on PBS back in 1982, based on a short story by Kurt Vonnegut and directed by Jonathan Demme. When it was first broadcast, I remember watching it because I had read the story in Reader's Digest a few years earlier. I instantly fell in love with it, and was able to tape it when it was rebroadcast later that summer. I've since lost that tape, but replaced it a few years ago after finding it on Amazon.

It's a terrific film, especially for those who love the performing arts.

Whoa. The NY Times parenting blog is freaking out. A few weeks ago, there was a guest post from a woman who was married to a man in the military who was away much of the time, they had five daughters, and they adopted a little boy. After 18 months, they decided that, since he didn't seem to be bonding with them, he would be better off with another family, and found a different family to adopt him. Comments started with things along the lines of "Thank you for sharing this painful story" but soon became pretty negative. [link]

Then, for some reason that I'm still trying to figure out, she went on The Today Show to tell the story again. [link] I kind of feel like there are huge pieces of this story missing -- she says, over and over, that she loves him but they didn't bond, but doesn't ever really say what that means -- how she could tell that a toddler had not bonded, how he interacted with her and the other kids, and so on.

edit: looking at it more closely, it looks like the youngest two biological children were born after they decided to adopt the boy, and at least one of them after he was already with their family.

Good heavens-- I'm watching an episode of House Hunters and the wife in the couple has got the same terrible haircut as Kate Gosselin. Why would anyone do that to their hair on purpose?

Good heavens-- I'm watching an episode of House Hunters and the wife in the couple has got the same terrible haircut as Kate Gosselin. Why would anyone do that to their hair on purpose?

That haircut that looks almost normal from the front, and then is all spiky in the back? I have no idea.