looking forward to everyone's reaction to Snowpiercer…

I had to look them up to remind myself who they are and found this from 3 July 2014: Stranded Jedward rescued by Coast Guard in Malahide—-Pop duo Jedward had to be rescued by the Coast Guard in the early hours of yesterday morning after they found themselves stranded on a sandbank in north Co Dublin…Several members of…

Probably only recognizable here from Britain's Got Talent excerpts on YouTube and Love Actually…not counting that as heft, for sure.

Think of the positives…If someone recommends something really cool from Friday or Saturday, then you still have Sunday to check it out!

Oooh, thanks for the rec. I am about a third of the way through Foucault's The Order of Things, finding lots to think about and reminding myself to go back to Kuhn, and Shapin sounds like a good chaser to ground my reactions.

I was less meh on Snowpiercer than you, although I hear what you are saying. The first big action scene and its forward momentum got me all caught up in it, actually sitting forward in my seat, and that feeling never lagged. Questioning the movie's specific premises doesn't do much good, I think, but the bigger,…

Awww, your story is way more inspiring than my getting a stupid pigeon out from between two parts of a rolling chain-link gate.

Yeah, see you there, hopefully opening night!

Well, that answers my question for SD.

Anyone seeing Glenn Greenwald on his book tour? I was disappointed here in SF, partly because he was preaching to the choir without a lot of new insights, partly because he seemed to be doing an "entertainment" rather than a challenging discussion. I got the sense he was warming up for a road show into more "enemy…

I am happy you liked 22 Jump Street in the end. I was super excited to have a Big Dumb Movie to relax with and then the mixed reviews made me not want to chance disappointment. (I can't handle disappointment right now.)

Spoiler? I heard cheers this afternoon coming out of one of the bars. U.S.A. might be doing okay? Or lots of Portugal fans?

ok, thanks. I started feeling a little weird seeing this on Sunday afternoon and comments are already 17 hours old. Did I lose track of time? Am I supposed to be at work? —I mean, yeah, didn't you get the memo about our time-traveling picnic this weekend?—

Totally. Now you can build your imaginary penguin imaginary lifts and slides. Oh geez, are you in sales? That does sound stressful. I am happy to hear your boss is understanding.

Hey, hope you are relaxing this weekend. Unless you are a surgeon or fighter pilot or something, I would guess your new job expects you to have a learning curve and take a bit to get comfortable. One thing that helped me with job anxiety, and it sounds very silly, is to visualize a companion animal. I would mentally…

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My friends and I are reading Moby Dick for the same reason, bolstered by Sonya Saraiya's great recommendation of it the other week. So far, it is fascinating and hilarious. Also, only half of my book is the actual story. The rest of it is the introduction and then yards and yards of commentary. It seems way denser…

Rise and Fall was the only appealing book at the hotel at Christmastime (also one of the most recent). I didn't get through it all (not that long of a vacation and I felt guilty stealing it). However, the beginning was a pleasant surprise. As you say, quite readable. I am sure there is an advantage to having more…

If it's the same version I listened to, it goes by like a dream because the narrator does all the specific regional accents. It really was like hearing people talk instead of listening to someone read. I listened to it before reading it and I could hear all the voices in my head. And I hate audiobooks.

Yep, there's nothing wrong with wanting some action, but I don't think her first interaction with this guy should be based on that, especially if she thinks he is "out of her league." (The social cliques involved aren't stated in the letter.) Let him learn how funny and smart she is first.