holey mother of god. Finally read the original article discussed upthread about JC Penney's in NYC that was in the NYT. The writer is evidently a sizist bitch. I can't believe some of the things she says! For example:

To this end, it has the most obese mannequins I have ever seen. They probably need special insulin-based epoxy injections just to make their limbs stay on. It’s like a headless wax museum devoted entirely to the cast of “Roseanne.”

and

The petites section features a bounty of items for women nearly as wide as they are tall;

It's just so mean. Haven't read what the public editor said yet. Whoa.

Oh yeah, it was really stunning.

I think maybe the Phillies just (or, whenever the game was) beat the Mets that way. I'm inferring from a Facebook post, so, you know...

They did. Very sad, because the Mets were actually coming back from a severe deficit in that game. The disabled list is KILLING them this year.

We failed at Date Night tonight. But we still had a lot of fun, so.

I've never gone back to re-read the Tales series, despite my love of Mouse and desire to go back and spend more time with him, because the end of Mary Ann depressed me so deeply.

I'm glad that they never filmed beyond the third. Seeing Laura Linney play Mary Ann as cold and selfish would have made it too real in my mind.

I saw ads this past week for a broadcast of Aliens that some halfwit presenter described as Ripley needing to be rescued. Which immediately made me see red, as it was the aliens that were in need of rescuing in that movie—Ellen Ripley makes Rambo look like a cub scout in comparison.

I recently read Michael Tolliver Lives, and I really agree with the TMI regarding Armistead Maupin, but I did like seeing the characters again. But poor Mona died, and she was my favorite. I was MaryAnn, but wished I was Mona.

I did like seeing the characters again.

Oh yeah. It was definitely like catching up with old friends or something.

I had a mail-related angst attack earlier. I was sitting on the couch and I saw a Capital One envelope that said URGENT, and I thought, "The hell? We paid that off a year ago!" I opened it and say "Amount Due Or Else!" In a fit of denial, I shove it back in the pile of stuff, then I see another one. This one, as opposed to the first one, actually has a postmark on it--for 2007. I do not need that kind of excitement.

glittery, brittle, low-rent Camille Paglia parody

Is it possible to parody Camille Paglia? Or to be more glittery and brittle? Hell I don't even know if Camille Paglia can be considered not low rent. She cites classical literature and popular culture, but since she never gets any of it right I don't see how that counts as high rent. Maybe since she is mostly on the side of rich...

This one, as opposed to the first one, actually has a postmark on it--for 2007

You know, I wish more of these had postmarks. Then I could at least keep the most recent one easily, without having to open all of everything.

I have a great deal of shredding ahead of me--I haven't filed decently in long enough that most of what I have filed is ripe for the machine.

I'm normally pretty news avoidant, but they've been running with that Ryan Jenkins/whatsername Fiore story (allegedly he killed her and mutilated the body and then fled the country) and I just caught the snippet that he's been found hanged to death in a Canadian motel, apparently a suicide. This leads the news off because she was a swimsuit model and he was a reality show contestant on one of the music channels, which makes it really hard to avoid. I wonder if anything important happened today? I think San Fernando Valley is on fire again, but that always happens, so it's much less interesting.