The other day one of my professors was describing his grandmother, and I swear his description fit Sophia Loren perfectly. (My professor *is* Italian...)

Race! They're talking about race because now that Obama's in the White House, it's suddenly totally okay to discuss stuff like that. /sarcasm.

I guess it's rather pathetic that these are the lengths to which she had to go, but on the other hand, congrats to her for looking 18 years younger than she actually is?

This week I was questioning my taking a feminist philosophy course, but then my professor did an impression of Katherine Hepburn and I knew I was in the right class.

Ugh, this comes on the heels of an op-ed double feature in my campus newspaper yesterday. It was a pro vs. con on abortion and these little flags area churches have been putting on their front lawns to symbolize the number of abortions performed each day. The anti-abortion columnist didn't have anything new to say…

The newest in spy technology: pet collars!

Aunt Jemima as a logo has troubled me greatly ever since I learned about Betye Saar in my freshman art history course. She parodied AJ in her art as a social commentary on black stereotypes:

@AtomiClash: Yes, totally.

In regard to Heath Ledger, one of the downsides to his death is that if you're an actor after your last movie is made, that's pretty much it. There's not really any such thing as posthumously released material in the vein of Tupac.

Can't Michael Cera make a Faustian deal or something in which he agrees to be in the Arrested Development movie and then he'll never be type-cast as the awkward, dorky boyfriend ever again? I want my AD movie!

My mother is currently the guardian of a cardboard box so full of hand-clipped or -written recipes that it's about to fall apart. That box belonged to her mother (who died before I was born), and sometimes when I'm bored I like to look at the recipes in that box and think about the woman who so neatly cut them out of…

"I'm not single! I'm busy." ... That's totally what I'm going to tell my brother the next time he asks me about my personal life.

Personally, I'd like to see that White House roof garden expanded. During WWII, there was a victory garden outside the WH to serve as an example to regular American citizens who were growing similar gardens to support the war effort. Sourcing food from local farms is great, but growing your own food is even better.

For some reason, the names Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro blended together in my mind and I read that as 'Sean Penn met with Che Guevara,' which I'm pretty sure is not possible. I need to eat breakfast.

@TheFormerJuneBronson: I think B schools might be experiencing other problems, or at least their students are. My roommate is an accounting major, and she talks about having an internship a lot. Not that business majors are the only discipline with big deal internships, but getting one with a major corporation seems a…

Is it weird that I almost like Joe Biden more than Barack Obama? I think his choking up during the VP debates and then the recent picture of him holding a German shepherd puppy that got circulated quite a bit sealed the deal for me.

I love Alice Walker. You know who else I love? Maya Angelou. I kept wondering where she was during the swearing-in. I know she was there, somewhere.

They.are.so.darling! I can't stand it!

@Emily Brilliant: Barf. I hate Jenny so much; she's the spiritual other half of Pete Campbell on Mad Men.

One of the things I've hated most about the L Word is that one of the characters (Jenny S.) hasn't had an identifiably steady job in three seasons yet she always appears to be wearing couture-level clothes. Ugh.