It's snowing outside. I'm a little alarmed.
Not as alarmed as I was when I initially misread your name as DavidS!
Re the dresses, I'd never heard of Leighton Meester before, and her outfit was an incredible eyesore, but it was a unified eyesore with a consistent, if glaring, aesthetic, and since she was at some kind of edgy, costumey art exhibit opening event I had to give her a pass. It looked to me like the kind of thing that will really only work for one single freakass event ever, and she was lucky enough to find that one.
Madonna's thing at a similar event, though? Fail. And the not-exactly-a-hat thing made me angry.
Cate Blanchett is adorable, even in an afghan. And I can't believe that the best dresses of the decade list had no mention at all of this outfit, which is still one of the most gorgeous things I've seen in any decade ever.
Apollo 13 is probably my favorite Serious Tom Hanks movie.
I LOVE
Apollo 13.
Also have to mention
That Thing You Do.
I just realized that the voiceover on Burn Notice reminds me of my current favorite HGTV show, Income Property.
Yay ita.
The good news, I most likely have a virus, not strep. The bad news, the doctor thinks I am going to feel worse before I feel better. He said this virus is a lot like mono and lasts about a week.
He didn't swab me for strep, but he did say that if I spiked a fever or my tonsils swelled up even more, that there is a doctor on call all weekend and I should come in.
Exactly, ita. I've never even seen all of it and I hate it with the fiery passions of a thousand burning suns.
SpeakIng of such things, for those who've seen LOM UK, would you consider Nelson a Magical Negro? I'm inclined to say no, perhaps because bartender-as-confidant is such a time-honored role. Also, the fact that he acknowledges his persona and its impetus to Sam gives him a dimension beyond caricature.
Anyway.
Income Property.
Canadian.
(Sorry, I can't help it.)
Half of those shows are Canadian! I swear, I'm about ready to get a place in Toronto myself!
The only Tom Hanks movie I still like is Big. The one I can't forgive that comes to mind is The Green Mile, even more than Forest Gump.
He just strikes me as so smugly self-satisfied that I can't stand him. Also his crusade to fuck up the Washington Mall and the cult of the "Greatest Generation." It stikes me that there's more than a whiff of Mary Sue in how he sees himself and his vision, and it comes off in his films.
I'm not sure Nelson helps Sam at all.
