@Chuck Basketcase: YES. I see next season as mirroring the first season in that it takes place during the same technical "time period" of Season 1 but in a "no Oceanic 815 crash" alternate-universe.

@stoprobbers Ille qui nos omnes servabit.: Yes, that's what Doc Jensen at EW postulated — that Richard was on that ship.

@BabyJane: There was an explosion, too, though.

This reminds me of a story...We were staying at a chalet in a national park (ie: you hike in 12-15 miles, and then it's pretty much a hotel but with no running water).

@TheUptightMidwesterner is (insert general bitchery here): Or Celerie Kemble and her hubby Boykin Curry.

@Bitchface: I'm quitting too, Bitchface. I just can't take it anymore. Allison losing was the last straw, and I STILL don't remember the names of any of the other girls except Celia, and I watched every episode this cycle.

I'm feeling squicky about seeing the bellybutton of the girl in front. Methinks she is too young for that croptop.

@MissMoneypenny: Fascinator=little veil over your face, correct? Gorge!

Hey celebrities, there are other restaurants in NYC besides Da Silvano!

@restless: I was thinking the same thing reading the post about the Jersey Shore Unleashed yesterday.

@Gumbina80: Beardy? I was looking through my parents' Portland magazine recently and it had an 8-page photo spread "Beards of Portland" or some such.

@sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): Me too! I watched the report on the news and this story got me started, and then I kept crying as they talked about Drew Peterson finally being arrested.

@gherkinfiend: If that was a skirt instead of pants, and the lining was a bit more opaque, I would have loved it.

2 things:

@Mediokra: If someone I loved (or "loved") told me to stop contacting them, they didn't love me, I wouldn't make any final declaration. I would go, be gone, and never respond back.

@megnificent: I've seen other stills from this movie where he still looks gorgeous. I think it's just this poster that's ridic.

God, it must be exhausting to be Lady Ga Ga.

After seeing her "sing" (because I can't call it real singing, I just can't) on American Idol last night, I find myself even more mystified by this whole thing.

If you're interested in one culture's take on this, I highly recommend the book Cutting for Stone which came out recently. While it is a novel written by a man, it takes place mostly in Ethiopia and covers this topic in a really really interesting (though of course, fictional) way.

@BabyJane: And yet she seemed to be taking a lot of the credit for the apartment...