Thanks, folks. My brother is a serious competitive bicyclist. So the Armstrong jokes will be appropriate.

He's already out of surgery, no sign of spreading. We'll get more results next week.

Being a grownup means you can make your own krab salad for lunch, to your own specifications, ie, imitation crab, relish, Miracle Whip (yes, I prefer it), and smoked gouda dip that has onions in it. I'm doing pretty well with this "Let's dump this all together and see if it works" thing. A couple of things have not been something I want to repeat, but nothing's been inedible.

Damn, Kat. I am glad you are almost done with that dumpster fire. Not your circus, not your monkeys.

Ugh, Jesse.

Good to hear that it hasn't spread, 'suela! Much ~ma to your brother.

That's my mantra for the next 10 days.

Hey, tomorrow single digits! I hope it helps to have the end in sight.

Much quick healing~ma for your brother, Consuela.

Commencement sounds fun if the weather is up for it. Which sounds like it isn't.

Yeah, I mean I still choked up a little a couple of times. They aren't even my kids!

I guess this was a Super Bowl commercial this year, but I'm only now seeing it. And surely everyone must see it.

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Wrong thread.

Random question. Did anybody watch the revamped Dirty Dancing that was on last night?

I'm not a fan of the movie but my sister was watching it when I got home so I saw the last 30 minutes. Fine, whatever, as cringe-worthy as ever. But they tacked a scene on at the end that - I just can't even think what they were intending. What they accomplished was undermining pretty much every good thing about that movie. I'm not even a fan - my sister was hopping mad.

Basically,

a 15-years-or-so-later, and it's Baby sitting in the audience watching a production of Dirty Dancing, directed by now-a-Broadway-star Johnny. Okay, whatever. Then they chat and...her kid runs up, followed by her generic country club husband and she explains that she's a stay-at-home mom but she still dances - salsa at the JCC once a week! So, basically, the whole entire awakening and growth and exploration of self led her...down exactly the path she was on before the movie. But it sure did give Johnny a career boost!

What the everloving fuck?

brenda I only watched a few minutes of the movie, had no idea how it was framed, and bowed out. Then I read about the remake. They missed the all the points of the movie, everything that made it what it is. Part of me wants to watch it for myself and the rest just wants to watch the actual movie and pretend this remake never happened.

Timelies all!

Healing~ma to your brother, Consuela.

Woo, four day weekend! We'll be at Balticon this weekend. (Hopefully we'll get to see hippocampus in more than passing.)