I was waiting for Matt Weiner's take on the whole "Twilight Sleep" thing. Of course, it wasn't nearly as horrific as Sylvia Plath's take on it in "The Bell Jar," but still it looked pretty bad, especially transitioning lying flat on your back. Transitional contractions are actually manageable pain-wise if you walk,…

Where I live, every other kid is named either Hudson, Jackson, Aiden, Caden, Jaden, Addison, or Madison. But there's a new one I heard at the playground the other day: Brooklyn.

I wonder how he'd feel about a movie based on Joyce Maynard's "At Home in the World?"

"These blow up into funny shapes at all?"
"No, unless round is funny."

Second "He's taken uh -innerest!" and "I Vill DESTROYYYY YOUUU!!!"

National Lampoon's Vacation
This started with my ex, but whenever I don't want to finish my beer and give the rest to my husband I have to say, "Bet you could use a cool one!"

The "Von" is badass. My husband and I wish we had the — ahem — balls to do the same with our too-teutonic surname.

Winona
Was anyone else strangely…saddened by Winona Ryder in this? I mean, she played his MOTHER, for god's sake. I never thought anything could make me feel sorry for this woman, but honestly why did she take this role? If J.J. had the hots for her he could have just given her the part of the green chick, or that…

It's funny but I've seen these strawberry milkshake oreos displayed at Target and twice I've lingered, tempted to buy, although I really don't like oreos or fake strawberry-flavored milkshakes. Did I mention I'm seven months pregnant?

Hey! I thought that, too! He really does look like Prez.

The weird thing is, I love the GIRLS in Freaks and Geeks. Lyndsay, Kim, and (especially) Milly are very real, very cool characters. Is this Feig's influence? Because Apatow's subsequent stuff seems pretty weak with the lady business. I mean, the women in Knocked Up were fucking LAME. And don't get me started on…

I am making a note to avoid "Dear Zachary" like the plague. If it involves dead kids, I'm done. I am destroyed.
Actually, one of the most disturbing, uncontrollable sob-inducing, permanently soul-wrecking things I've seen is this PBS American Experience — yeah, American Experience, not even fucking Frontline — about…

It's funny, or maybe not, how having kids will effect what makes you cry. I was a pretty big crier at movies before having my daughter, but now it's ridiculous. "Ordinary People" is one of those that I've seen several times before and enjoyed to a certain extent, but wasn't particularly moved by (being one of those…

I guess no one out there is willing to call her a "pretty, pretty princess."

Now I'm sure she's not lying about the cancer, but after the first ep I thought it would be interesting if that were the case, rather more interesting than the "girl martyr with cancer" story we have going now. It would work so much better as Paul gets so inappropriately involved with his clients, to have one that was…

Brad Dourif rules. That is all. The only thing I've seen Steven Dorff in is "I Shot Andy Warhol" where he played Candy Darling. He was not nearly as girly and pretty as the real Candy Darling but he gave it his best shot, I guess.

Similar in weird structure to House of Leaves, has anyone here read Dhalgren?

Well, maybe "loved" is not the right word. It is a really, really disturbing book.

I'd like a discussion of 2666. Finished it a couple weeks ago and loved it but feel, somehow, that The Part About the Crimes should have been at the end. Also, there are rumors that a Part 6 and maybe a Part 7 have been "discovered" in Bolano's papers.

My fave YA book is "Daughters of Eve" by Lois Duncan.