No, I didn't. It's totally been recommended to me before, though. I'll check it out. (What else is a summers-off girl to do but watch movies all day?)

I just finished the Tudors series, which was excellent. Nevertheless, when I think of Jonathan Rhys Meyers, I will always think of an intense Irish football coach.

I swear I just read an article about a girl who farted on camera for money. I thought it was Jezebel, but maybe not.

I'm with you. It makes me really happy I have a Snickers stashed in the fridge right or I DON'T KNOW WHAT.

Maybe "creepy" is being overused. I admit that I do hear that term thrown around a lot, so it's very likely that it's being used unfairly. Maybe if we were more specific in our language, and only used "creepy" if we actually felt "creeped out," that would be better.

This is doubleplus true.

I certainly can't be any more specific than "I know it when I see it," but I completely disagree with the definition that, as you said, "creepy is 'a guy who I find unattractive who has the gall to hit on me.'"

I think it makes him look like a clown. (Which is another way of saying, "I think it makes him look like an evil clown.")

I teach English and American culture overseas, and I always told my students, "American food is the best because we have burritos and pizza!" I guess I'm a liar. I probably won't stop.

Some of the best margerita pizza I've had also included cilantro (which maybe doesn't make it technically "margerita," but whatever, I don't even know how to spell "margerita" anyway).

If you eat soup out of a bread bowl (THE BEST WAY), the bowl is pretty much half soup by the time you eat that part.

Perfect!

And I think her most recent pick has been Cheryl Strayed's book (the name escapes me now), also known as Sugar from The Rumpus.

If you can't eat it with your hands, it's not worth eating.

I always heard that pizza was invented by an Italian-American living in New York, so (according to that story) it's American. Unless I'm a casualty of aggressive New York pizza lobbyists.

I wondered about this when the BumpIt came out.

HAHAHA

I LOVED that about what she said. It was downplayed and matter of fact, like being a feminist isn't shocking, it's "natural"! She was all, "Yeah, I'm a feminist. Big fucking deal."

I see this in my own two parents. My mother is so much more socially active than my father. She has friends from work, from the parents of her kids' friends, etc, and even meets one group regularly for movies (they are, creatively, called "the movie group," I think). My dad, not so much.

Yeah, I wasn't impressed by the trailer. But a MM boycott is like a seal of approval. How many of us starting shopping at JCP because of them?