in sewell's blog
she called jail the "hoosegow". Slightest bit pretentious, no?

Top Chef
I'm surprised that Bourdain said that the decisions in Top Chef are not decided by the producers. I stopped watching after the second season because it had already gotten to be obvious and . . . trite, I guess. And the challenges were ridiculous.

sets, etc.
I disliked the Hulk very much at the time because I disliked the overall *look* of the movie— I guess that after watching Crouching Tiger so much I was hoping for lyrical but got ponderous instead.

I've been on a Spiritualized tip
recently, so this is welcome news.

Not that I liked the movie,
But Juno featured a lot of music by this Kimya Dawson character.

. . .
for some reason I thought was about McLovin'. . .

What can I say? The semester's over!

but what an awesome suggestion.

So, basically, I have a chance with you then, lexicondevil?

I'm worried
that they just won't be able to do justice to the book.

I too hate second person point-of-view and forbid it in my students' papers, whether or not they are on drugs.

MBV
Yeah, so what about My Bloody Valentine? Will all my hopes be dashed?

. . .
Great new feature!

cooooooooooooool ice-nine!

Rushdie
Never been able to forgive him—Lakshmi bugs me.

Some things should remain taboo
And one example is in that trailer.

!!!!!!11

NIN
is, um, dare I say it? 1337

. . .
I'll be picking this up in 3 . .2. . 1 . . .

. . .
I'm curious as to what some of the non-winners are doing.