His father may have started that hotel fire to kill a woman he had an affair with.

I heart Anne Brontë. Even if The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was preachy, at least her heart was in the right place.

based on hanging around fan forum, you are not alone in your thoughts about Jack and Kate. I loved LOST and identified more with Jack than any other character on the show, so... Maybe someday I'll re-watch and agree with you.

Oh God that go through Blair's sordid history scene... things like getting pimped out for a hotel, or dating someone who is also sleeping with his step mother are humiliating, but 100% not Blairs fault and should not be held against her. It was ridiculous, but kind of real. Like last year when Kristin Gillibrand got…

Slow clap.

I hate this trope so much. It does not make the person treated differently special, it just highlight how badly the person is with people. I don't see why anyone would want to be the exception to the rule when it comes to how they handle relationships.

Is it weird that I really started like Mariah as a person after reading a couple of interviews where she basically spent the interviews touring her condo? Because the self indulgence and self reflection that goes into it I find kind of fabulous.

As an occasional watcher, and more often follower of the plot lines I could never get into this ship because it is uneven. Chuck regularly sleeps around when they are not together, while Blair tries to get herself ready/worthy for their inevitable reunion. Chuck makes her miserable and then gets to just walk away. I…

I know! Storytelling wise this is a perfect example of how I like soaps/teen soaps in theory, but in practice they do so much that insults me.

After last night Gossip Girl where Chuck abused Blair, and the the executive produces came out saying "Chuck would never hurt Blair... it's not abuse when it's them" I don't think I could take it.

Wow, I agree with the quote that Penn Jillette. Thank you MLK.

Strange Little Girls, it was her last with Atlantic.

Look at the January Jones "baby bump" pics. Honestly I don't see it. Isn't that just how everyone looks in a loose fitting shirt.

News like this needs Preston Sturges! I have "The Lady Eve" and "The Palm Beach Story" on dvd. The latter has a joke about FDR's unending presidency, which must have been funny in his third term.

I know Sarah Palin is a troll and everything, but between this tweet and things like her and Bachman's first conversation (where they apparently smiled and said "drill, baby, drill!" to each other) she is so far over the line of self parody that I have a hard time believing any of it. Then I remember it is real and I…

That might be because she had early contractions a little while ago. She and Nick Cannon later said they were relieved that the babies would be born closer to the due date.

I am sure there are, I just have not met them yet (besides the people who don't like sci-fi/fantasy at all)

I like Gaiman but have never gotten into Moore. I read V for Vendetta and The Watchmen and they left me cold and a little insulted. It feels weird disliking works that were so influential on things I like.

Thank you for your recommendations. I have not seen GasLand yet, but I will and I have been recommending it. I got all fifty of my signatures today going around my apartment building.

Collecting signatures for an anti-fracking posistion (yay Earth Day!) Got 20 out of the 50 I have as a goal. (I'll use the rest of the weekend to help). Anyway most people I spoke to did not know what fracking was and, as I got a lot at classical music recital, a few thought it was against people brass instruments…