The Los Angeles situation is completely off the chain. Much wishes for safety for all SoCal 'istas. LAPD are losing their shit.

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sarameg, good luck to you.

Apparently we're going to get anywhere from "some" to "all" of the snow over the course of Friday and Saturday.

Hey, we're having the same forecast.

I don't personally need Ziggy Stardust, but I'm pretty sure another member of our household does. If it weren't a one-of-a-kind not for sale thing, I'd already be making room for him to hang out on our doll shelf alongside our Jack Skellingtons, Dior New Look Barbie and Enid.

I have that Enid action figure. My mom's name is Enid, so my family was amused when I told them there was a comic book character named Enid Coleslaw.

I wonder if the name will ever have a resurgence. Probably not.

Hey, we're having the same forecast.

Now that I've cancelled all my plans, I just hope the storm doesn't veer off somewhere!

I went to the link regarding shopping apps. I LOVE my Starbucks app. Just love it. It probably is the only one of those apps I use regularly. I have had people in Starbucks stop me and ask me about it when I hold my phone to the scanner.

I do use the amazon app (windowshop) on my ipad and I have to say that while it is wildly different from a computer web experience, it is pretty good. I don't use price check, etc. I might use price check if I shopped for expensive crap more often, but I can't see finding toilet paper $.10 cheaper 1 mile away and dropping everything to go get it.

Oh, dear. Courtesy of BoingBoing, a site that gives you a fresh conspiracy theory every time you refresh:

Awesome! My co-worker believes every last one.

Please be safe wishes for those in the path of the storm, or better yet, come visit me! I won't check my current temp and such, but it is lovely.

tommy, just Tolkien or faux-Celt the spelling up a bit to something like Aenyd or Eanydh, attach it to a plucky secondary character in the next big thrilling not-quite-YA serial (my pitch: Steampunk proto-feminist/The Riches mashup with a band of Dirigible Roma blood-oath-sworn friends for life who commandeer an air wagon to help one of their group flee a particularly odious arranged marriage to the violent scion of a rival clan, and then roam steam-Europe disguised as boy pirates and pulling off elaborate cons to survive, fleece clueless industrialists and bring down the rival clan before it destroys their own; Aenyd/Eanydh is someone's kid sister who stowed away and can't be returned without serious risk to everyone, but is a preternaturally gifted pickpocket and safecracker), and it could easily fight its way into the top 100 within a year or so.

JZ, I would be ALL OVER that book series. Can you write it up and get it in stores by, say, 2017? I'm aiming to make that our last-baby-by date, and I'd like to get in early on this Aenyd thing.

I should read JZ's post to my mom. She'd be completely confused.

Yeah, I'd read that book series too.