WOot! I just had the second person in a week tell me that they didn't recognize me from behind! And the first one was the woman who sits kitty-corner from me and sees me every day.

I am sans boss all week in the office. I already feel overwhelmed with not knowing what to do next. I have done some stuff, but do not want to have to call customers and schedule work. Stupid lady who cancelled this morning, she ruined my schedule for this week.

DavidS, did you see that the Beeb is doing a Jean Shrimpton Biopic?

Cool! Though I pity the woman that has to portray one of the most beautiful women of the decade.

Sort of like when Jennifer Love Hewitt portrayed Audrey Hepburn, or Sherilyn Fenn did Elizabeth Taylor. You're just going to suffer by comparison.

Besides I think JLH looks like a gerbil. But I don't suppose that's the suffering you meant...but she's just another one of those actresses that makes me think "Who decided she was pretty? Nobody asked me."

Though I pity the woman that has to portray one of the most beautiful women of the decade.

Actually, Karen Gillan can probably pull it off:

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(ETA: she's already been cast).

Actually, Karen Gillan can probably pull it off:

She's pretty, no doubt, but she's not Jean Shrimpton pretty.

"The Shrimp" is a legend even today amongst high fashion and model mavens for the perfection of her features. Photographers talk about her the same way cinematographers talked about Garbo - no bad angles.

An interview with Dan Savage: [link]

I liked this bit:

Q: You and I had a fun radio debate a year ago about sex addiction. We disagreed on whether sex addiction is real (I think it is, you don’t), but we both agreed that we as a culture have way too much shame around sex. In one sentence, why are we so fucked up about sex?

A: Because Australia got the convicts, Canada got the French, and we got the Puritans.

Has this been posted?

Go The F**k to Sleep, A Children’s Bedtime Story

Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach, with illustrations by Ricardo Cortés. is a children’s book with a simple, enduring message: sometimes Mommy and Daddy want their little buckets of joy to just go the f**k to sleep already. Despite not being available until June 14, the book is number two on the Amazon bestseller list thanks to buzz generated by the unauthorized circulation of a pre-release PDF copy.

Go the Fuck to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach’s verses perfectly capture the familiar–and unspoken–tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, they open up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity.

Wow, the woman who gave her 8 y.o. daughter botox injections to compete in kiddie beauty pageants lost custody of her daughter.

I don't think Sherilyn Fenn gave up that much ground in comparison to Elizabeth Taylor looks-wise. In acting talent, maybe, and choice of projects definitely.