Hilary Duff physically getting in between Tom Welling and Jared Padalecki to stop a fight was fabulous. Just so improbable-looking.

It was just almost redeemed by a scene of Hilary Duff trying to stop Jared Padalecki from bullying Tom Welling, though.

Wow. I read this as buying at first, and got REALLY confused.

Barb, Third Place is SO AWESOME. I love it.

At long last I met my sweet Tao. We talked about the stylistic and topical similarities between folk and punk. He's beautiful.

So, alas, is his girlfriend. At least, however, for once, I fell for a straight boy.

Welcome home, Barb!

Despite recommendations to the contrary, now I'm watching Cheaper by the Dozen. Yet another movie that makes me wonder why they bothered to buy the rights to the book.

Because A Very Brady Sequel was taken?

Well yeah but I mean, the book is completely different. Why spend the money on book rights if you're not making the book?

Awesome night out with smonster. first, we went and hung out at my theatre. They really needed someone, so I filled in while smonster did her nails with the cool polish we found earlier that day (three coats, labor intensive, but a cool color. Probably better suited for an overlay, but I digress). then, we headed to one of my favorite spots. It's extremely cool, but the hipster douchebag quotient is disturbingly high. It was douchetastic when we got there, but then we snagged some seats. and then they were playing Duran Duran's "Reflex" upstairs on the dance floor, so we went up to dance for a while.

I was extremely entertained by the guy dancing with the transvestite. We decided that he didn't know what he was getting into. At one point, she was riding him on the dance floor (he was leaning back against the DJ booth, she was straddling his waist). Actually when we left, they were on the street, and he was looking forlornly after her as she left him to grab a cab.

All in all, a good evening. Now we're sitting in my living room with dueling laptops updating statuses and checking the threads.

As for the nail color (China Glaze Atlantis), at two coats it looked like sparkly Aquafresh. Oh hell no. It's better at three coats but I will be using it as an overlay.

The douchebags were epically douchey. The dance floor was *not* crowded and all and yet the little fuckers would not stop bumping into us. And none of them could dance and the dj was a shitty mixer and segueing too fast. And yet b/c it was me and Vortex, we managed to tear it up and have a good time anyway.

The theatre was awesome. Gorgeous space and very yummy food. I had the seasonal salad: butternut squash, apples, and toasted pecans on greens, topped with a maple apple cider bourbon dressing. We got yummy Thai for dinner, and then I decided I wanted dessert. They were out of the double chocolate apricot cranberry cookies, baked in house. So instead I had a chocolate mousse tart with a chocolate graham crust and an interstitial layer of caramel and walnuts. ZOMG SO GOOD.

I bought Atlantis BECAUSE it looked like kid's toothpaste.

Though Blue Sparrow is better for when I want the Kid's Crest look. Err.

Yeah. This explains the hundreds of bottles, doesn't it?