FWIW, I've seen the entire new version. It's okay. It's not as bad as I feared it might be. Diaz is the worst thing in the movie for me. A close second is how they did away with Rooster and Lily and replaced them with a sleazy PR guy. Otherwise, the children are good. Foxx is good, Rose Byrne is perfectly fine if a…

Kathy Bates did a good job. Granted, the key was lowered for her from the original show version. And in the Bates' version, Rooster was played by Alan Cumming, who is brilliant.

And she did it in the original key.

I remember that post. It was horrifying. I traumatised most of my friends with it. It was awesome.

This is also true if a cat sleeps on its back with its belly exposed. It feels completely secure and has no reason to be on the defensive.

One of the funniest memories I have of my Queen of the Universe cat is the time she brought a live-ish bird into the house, went tearing to my mom's bedroom, and dropped it on the bed beside my screaming mother. Queenie was very pleased with herself. Mom never quite got over the experience and greatly resented that…

I'm drinking Zevia cola, watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on TCM, and am thoroughly enjoying being alone this year. My Thanksgiving feast will be tomorrow and consist of a pot roast and root veggies. My roommates are out of town and I haven't had the place to myself for more than 48 hours in the last three months, so…

Cran-Apple Walnut Cake from the original Moosewood Cookbook. I add extra spice and use whole wheat flour. Also extra nuts. It's been a standby since I was fourteen, when my sisters gave me a copy of that cookbook for Christmas. I make it for hostess gifts, potlucks, work soirees, everything. I never take any home…

And when I was eight, my dad took me to the circus and I got to meet the first lady clown ever with Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey. During the pre-show she came and plopped herself down right on my lap. She stayed and talked to us for several minutes. I never forgot her! About a year later, she appeared on the old…

I love Emmett Kelly too! Being ancient, I was lucky enough to see him perform with the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus when I was four and again when I was six. He was magical.

I feel you so much on this. My Queenie was with me twenty years, from 18 to 38. She appeared on my front porch one day as a kitten and as no one in the neighborhood claimed her, I did. She had a great, long life, full of love, pampering, and endless hours looking out windows and chittering at birds. But her last…

In unrelated Goob trivia, triggered by the mention of Hurlyburly, I saw that play in 198whenever. The actors of the rendition I saw included Jerry Stiller (awesome), Frank Langella (good enough), and Susan Anton. Yes, Susan Anton, Broadway star extraordinaire. Not. She'd recently broken off her relationship with…

I worked in a living history theatre set in the year 1891 for fifteen months and wore a corset five days week, anywhere from six to twelve hours a day depending on what was going on. I missed wearing such after that gig was over, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a blessing to take it off at the end of every…

One of my happiest thrift store finds was a box set of twelve early Hitchcock films made before he came over to Hollywood. I don't think any of the discs within had been watched more than once, if that. Not bad for $6.00!

Suspicion is pretty much my favorite Hitchcock film, though the 39 Steps is brilliant too.…

I'm glad they're doing this. I drink a few flavors of stevia-sweetened Zevia soda and enjoy them very much. They're a godsend for me because I'm allergic to aspartame and one or two other artificial sweeteners. For years I've blended plain soda water with fruit juices if I wanted flavored bubbles to drink, but I…

A close friend of mine is part of this project, something he revealed to me in the last 24 hours after I posted a link on Facebook to the original article. This fellow ain't no dummy, so if he believes they can make this happen, odds are it's likely they will.

Much cheaper if you get them by the case. Free shipping! http://www.amazon.com/Cadbury-Crunch…

I'll grant the snorting bit took me by surprise, but the toothfairy bit, yeah, I got that.

I have two older sisters and an older brother. None of them did a damned thing to help me while I cared single-handedly for our mother during the last eleven years of her life. I left graduate school when she became gravely ill. During those eleven years I was accused of living the high life off our mother's Social…

Lawsy. No wonder I have so many Canadian friends. That Caesar salad in a bacon bowl has me drooling!