If Fox News did a segment on the “myth” of wage inequality where all of the anchors got together and had to lay their paychecks side by side to openly see who makes what, and then watch the ones who make more try to justify their higher wage to the lower paid anchors, I would watch the shit outta that train wreck.

“If you have to be extraordinary, be extraordinary.”

OMG, non Australians know Dance Academy existed? Hurray!

I can always recommend the fantastic “Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her,” about Mildred Wirt Benson, who wrote almost all of the early books and didn’t get the credit she deserved for decades.

Though to be fair, Radetsky’s acting is far superior to Kent’s. Which is a lot like saying a child’s drawing of a bunny is more lifelike than a rock. But still. Kent is absolutely awful in Center Stage, thus her extraordinary ballet career will never be overshadowed. Whereas Radetsky is passable, even charming.

Maybe. I love ballet but even I’m willing to acknowledge that in terms of cultural relevancy, Charlie from Seattle trumps most ballet world achievements. Don’t pity Radetsky, who gets both elusive success in the ballet world AND a memorable role in a cult classic dance film. Instead, pity all his colleagues in ballet…

Almond milk is AMAZING — at least on cereal, which is the only time I ever use milk unless I’m baking. However, you do have to get the original/unsweetened/non-vanilla kind. Because sweetened vanilla milk is not milk, it’s goddamn melted ice cream and also disgusting.

Also, I feel slight pity for Sasha Radetsky that a long and illustrious career as a soloist at ABT and a principal with Dutch National Ballet, and for a generation of us he’ll always be Charlie from Seattle whose girlfriend dumped him for going to study ballet in New York.

Center Stage appreciation thread!

CENTER STAGE! Holy crap do I love the final performance...

Please tell me you’ve already watched Dance Academy. Yes it is about teenagers but OMG SO GOOD.

“I can’t do anything with some frigid small town virgin!” I could imagine “Jonathan” saying this line.

It’s a shame that Breaking Pointe wasn’t better. There’s definitely a need for a ballet-based show, but that one focused so much on the “reality drama” and so little on the actual dance. They would show maybe 10 seconds of the actual performance after preparing for it for the whole season; meanwhile we’d see countless…

Poor actors? Competition? Ballet? Bitching about your lack of turnout in first position? Say no more, I’m def in. This will be my life now. No sarcasm.

Where the hell is my Bunheads DVD set, ABC Family?

Cannot wait for my next encounter with racists/sexists/elitists at the pub!

The only thing I wear on the weekends is my pajamas and a blanket around my shoulders like a decrepit, dethroned queen as I let my mind liquefy and gently drip out of my ears as I do nothing beneficial to society at all for forty eight goddamned glorious hours.

In college, I took a children’s lit class and did my final research paper on feminism and Nancy Drew. It’s juuuuust long enough ago that I don’t actually remember what I wrote, but I DO remember that choosing Nancy Drew as my topic was pretty much just an excuse to spend dozens upon dozens of hours rereading the…