That is a very big bunny, and I say that as someone whose father's family used to breed Flemish Giants (as did we, until it turned out that my entire branch was horribly allergic to them).

Does Rainn Wilson realize his sense of humor is (a) not funny and (b) inappropriately mean? Why would you pick on Jewel of all people? It's not like she's bringing it on herself somehow.

This "severe illness" thing makes me think of the conversation I had with my grandfather last night about the generation before him. It is astonishing to me how many women lost years to TB, many of whom never fully recovered. Of his five aunts or so, only one made it to her 30s (and then, apparently, was exploded in…

@clairedeloony: That is fantastic. I would also love to read that!

I will take 10, 13, 22 (even though it is somewhat boring), 28 and 36, please.

@gigi.laroux007: Covers can be well-done and/or transformational in some way sufficient to lay claim to the oft-dickfingerd term "original." (As I have no sound here, I will not be opining on this one.) And it's not like she hasn't written her own lyrics before.

Eh, I can't hold it against her. She's a sweet girl who wears pretty dresses and occasionally makes my ears bleed. I can hold the bleeding ears bit against her, but for the rest, she mostly just seems gracious and composed in a vaguely childlike way.

@MagsCO: I'm very late to the game, but Cohen wrote it, John Cale (of Velvet Underground) did a fairly transformational cover of it, Buckley was inspired by Cale's version and made the song his own, and Rufus Wainwright somehow gets a lot of credit for doing nothing original whatsoever.

Unfortunately, I wonder if Taylor Swift's live performances suffer because she doesn't have a very good sense of pitch. She wandered off-pitch several times tonight while singing melody... both during Rhiannon and her own song. Eek.

@lizbang: He didn't say they were hobbling, though. You can be comfortable wearing a pair of shoes and still have a shorter stride because of them. Similarly, right now I'm wearing a mid-calf-length wool pencil skirt which shortens my stride. It's ridiculously comfortable, but I would have to break into a silly…

There's always Jack the Cat who treed the bear.

The part that Tebow seems to be missing is that there's a disconnect between urging other people to "chose life" and making damned sure they don't have any other choice to make. The people he's bedfellows with use the language of choice, but then do all they can to take away the alternatives.

Don't ruin her! I love that she's brilliant and petty and completely badass, yet somehow childish and bursting at the seams with all this potential, but she ruins herself by making all these terrible choices, like surrounding herself with incompetents and inferiors and not retreating when things start going south,…

I grew up in a household where my mom earned significantly more than my dad did, and they managed to make it work, partly, I think, by keeping their finances separate. It also did help that dad came home earlier to make dinner and coached sports.

@Wit is periodically disensouled: Oh, and also, when I ran across this in my RSS feed I thought for a moment there was a new page up. Dangit.

Ah, one of my old favorites - although I've almost given up on it being updated ever again. Still, I can remember the first time I clicked through the first pages and felt the awesome.

Now that's just mean...

"Deep Red Belts"

Minor point of clarification - it's the group known as the "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate," i.e. Andrea Plunket, which isn't really the same thing as Arthur Conan Doyle's actual Estate.

@Pennyfeather: Thank you. Sometimes it seems like men think the book is solely there as a conversation piece.