It worked in R + J for me, too, but that film was modern. It looks like Gatsby will be set in the twenties—and so much of the music of the twenties would have worked so well. For me a lot of the point of the book was about how vapid and shallow so much of the culture was, and much of the music then was vapid and…

The music for the trailer is so anachronistic that it's distracting. Visually, it's interesting, but it seems like it's trying too hard to be deep.

But this is why I stay away from her. And luckily she lives almost on the other side of the country so I really almost never need to see her. There could be worse situations.

If Patti Stanger is correct, I just found another reason I'm glad I sleep with ladies.

My sister is ridiculous. She's ten years older than I am. I don't ever remember living in the same home with her (except the hellish summer I was fourteen and lived with her), but she's always felt free to call me and criticize me. She married a millionaire and thinks it's fine to call and tell me I'm an awful…

My sister got really angry after I wrote a short (hilarious) story about Jesus being sad about all the modern day fundamentalist Christians who use his name to demonize the poor, gays, anyone of another religion, anyone even vaguely different, and justify war (full disclosure, I'm atheist). She also claimed that a…

Well, the Jesus character in the New Testament compared to the God character in the Old Testament. The Jesus character did relatively few douchey things (cursing the fig tree wasn't nice, I will admit, but those douchey things were few and far between, whereas the God of the OT was a douche ALL THE TIME). He handed…

I'll admit that my twenties were horrific. I was in a horrible religion, at a horrible school, having multiple brain surgeries, and deep, deep in the closet. But I was also smart, funny, and reflective. I may have been really, really depressed, but I wasn't boring! I may have been a whiny asshole, but even in a…

I had a teacher who hated me to this degree, but a good part of that was because I'm queer and female (and turned him in to his faculty adviser for using the term "faggot" in class). On a day I missed class, he compared me to his ex, whom he told the class on many occasion that he wanted dead. I dropped the class. …

Hey, I'm atheist, and I'm still certain Jesus was nicer than this guy. Old Testament god—he was a douche. That's who I'd compare this guy to.

The point still stands, though. He may be gay, but he's still one of her fucked up twenty-something white kid characters. And all of the characters are about two inches deep. If she's going to write characters that are only two inches deep, that have about three facets to their personalities, she might as well make…

Yes. There was a gay character for one episode in one scene. And vague hinting that her dad might be gay. Thanks for the correction.

Sometimes I like Girls, but more and more I'm finding it boring/uncomfortable/irritating. And I'm not sure if it's because I find that age group boring/uncomfortable/irritating (I'm sorry, twenty-somethings, and I wouldn't go back to my twenties if you paid me a million dollars because that age is pure hell, but it…

My friend does that song awesomely at karaoke, but it still makes me want to vom because Uncle Joey.

It was a good album, but the fact that it made me picture Uncle Joey getting blowjobs in a theater gives me a case of Eeeewwwwws. Uncle Joey always grossed me out, though.

My grandpa was named Moroni. My grandma thought it was a pretty name, so she deigned to date him. I think it is rather horrifying.

I really want some. Maybe they still sell puff paint at craft stores . . . Hanes Her Way, you shall be decorated!

A friend of mine can do a *perfect* Paula Deen impression. We enjoy creating fake diabeetus commercials. She is also really good at Wilford Brimley. Liberty Medical should just hire her now.

I was raised Mormon, and I have never met a Mormon named Silas (99%+ Mormon hometown). I've met lots of Ammons, Nephis, Jareds, Josephs and Brighams, though. It is awesome when you meet a kid who is gay with a stereotypical Mormon name. You suddenly know his whole life story (childhood, bullying, self hatred,…

I liked Faye so much more than Megan. Why can't we have her?