Final Destination (the first one) when I was 15. I remember being really disappointed - weren't the movies your parents disapproved of supposed to be good?

All the time. "Do you have that book with [something indistinct] on the cover?". Sure. I'll just put that into my magic computer and find it for you.

Can we talk about Pandemic now? Because that game frustrates me.

It seemed rather unfortunate that his mother's initials were KC on the night Kenneth Cole was the guest judge.

I think there was a mini-controversy in another  season about boob tape. It probably falls in the same category as gluing the dress to the model.

Hey, in our defense, economics class is tough! And you were so sweet to help and all. I think I'll bake some cookies for you or whatever.

It's too bad you have to hide your Nancy Drews from your intellectual family, though. I always thought they should be glad you liked reading so much.

Puerto Rico is pretty great, it's just that it takes 4 hours to play.

Murray - they added a Jewish girl who went to Stonybrook Day private school later in the series. She was a twin and she liked musical theater.  Just to round things out.

And your clothes, Claud. Your clothes were the best part of those books. Remember when you wore pink tights with a blue dress and orange shoes with gold earrings so you could look like a sunset? I do.

You can be a Sweet Valley girl, going with a Sweet Valley guy, living in a Sweet Valley world, getting into Sweet Valley High!

I think I read the middle-school spinoffs, too. Jessica and Lila had a cool-kids club called the Unicorns or something and they always had to wear something purple because they'd learned it was a royal color. Jessica once braided a purple ribbon into her hair and my 10-year-old self tried and failed to copy it.

Oh, don't worry. Whenever I meet someone from southern California I ask "oh, like Disneyland?". Because I'm a jerk.

je ne sais quoi-ffrey
booooooooo

Lose Yourself
Does anyone need to say how terrible that Taylor Swift thing was? Because I'll say it.

I thought she was doing something interesting with those dog cones - I was actually kind of sad it didn't work out because it could have had a fun, futuristic look to it. I'm going to go ahead and not completely hate her yet - I'll give her a few more episodes, at least.

The literacy program at our library used to have a Scrabble tournament once a year (before all their funding was cut and they had to close). I ended up playing against a Scrabble rain man who opened with a 132-point bingo word and just continued to waste me the rest of the game. I soured on Scrabble for awhile after…

That's an awesome letter - thanks for sharing, Corey.

Sometimes it's fun to laugh at idiots and the idiotic things they say, but this guy's article really pissed me off. It's as though he just picked three books, scanned the pages for words like sex, penis, or f—-, and decided that was enough to recommend banning.

Here's a link to an After Elton interview with Travis Wall a few weeks ago that's worth reading on the subject: http://bit.ly/lY7UUz