Lady GaGa made the best of list! Frankly, some of those dresses are worse than Patricia Arquette's dress. And Kate Winslet definitely belongs on that list.

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I don't think that the bartender in LoM is a Magical Negro. You can still have advice-giving black people. It's all in how you do it, and if you tokenise the role.

It's a cross between Barbarella and soft core porn styling (totally SFW, but you'll see what I mean. It's a "rock opera" put together by the California Milk Board and the songs are hilarious!

They show the commercials on TV here. They are absirdly bad and funny.

I sort of like Tom Hanks, and appreciate that he and Rita Wilson are behind-the-scenes movers and shakers on a number of films I like. But I'd just as soon never see him act again.

I hope no one else asks me about my plans for New Year's. I don't want to talk about the funeral again. But it feels disingenuous not to.

When do you fly out, ita?

Tomorrow morning. People keep asking what I'm doing with my time off, not just what I'm doing tonight, which is a big fat nothing/packing.

Ugh. You should make up something fabulous.

You don't have to talk about anything you don't want to. You can tell them the truth or tell them personal stuff or lie and say you're going to lie on the beach. When it comes to stuff like this, you aren't beholden to your audience.

Ugh, that's so hard, ita.

It will not be mac's first time seeing the ball drop.