That's acceptable. Better yet is if she called you her bitch.

Midwestern
Maybe it's hard to articulate what "Midwestern" means as a descriptive physical quality, but I think it's the difference between "girls" and "gals," for instance. I like "girls" and "women"; I do not like "gals" and "ladies."

The only thing those ads prompted me to buy was John Hodgman's "The Areas of My Expertise."

Hey, I just wanted to let everybody know that I will be finishing writing "Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort" by Roger Martin du Gard, now that I'm done re-writing Fitzgerald's "The Last Tycoon." I have also taken it upon myself to put the finishing touches on Schubert's 8th Symphony and Einstein's unified field theory.

[Gene Shalit voice] I'm no weatherman, but in this critic's opinion, it's always funny in Sillydelphia!

Nice review
I guess I've seen this DVD for months at Borders but didn't know about its heretofore "exclusive" availability, so I assumed Nathan perhaps just now acquired a copy and reviewed it because a few site commenters have suggested that he sounds like Ira Glass.

Mitch Hedberg
The other day, I bought a newly released album of "rough draft" work-in-progress material by Mitch Hedberg, and he had a goofy line about how he wished his clothes were made out of blankets, so that if he fell asleep in his clothes, he'd already be fuckin' tucked in. Then, that night, I saw this…

I'm indifferent about "Burn After Reading." If I absolutely *had* to see a movie at my local multiplex, I guess that would be it; otherwise, I'll catch it on DVD — and, if it's from Netflix, the DVD will likely sit around the house for a while before I make the time to watch it. It just strikes me as that kind of…

I was amazed by Kelly Macdonald in "No Country" as well, having read before I saw the movie that she was Scottish. Her whole performance impressed me, though, not just her accent.

A while before "Roger Rabbit" was released, my mother had a work conference at Disney World and was given lots of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" swag. I remember her efforts to explain the movie to me, and how it was anticipated as "the next big thing" from Disney. My Roger Rabbit t-shirt became my favorite thing to…

Other commenters mentioned these musicians way, way up in this thread, so, for what it's worth:

In one of the radio promos for the Elvis Costello album "Get Happy!!," a comedian says it "has more cuts than 'Midnight Run' on TV." I remember first seeing the movie on TV as a kid; when I watched the theatrical version later, it was like a different movie, since the profanity is so integral to its overall impact.

Culturally, we're more afraid to acknowledge that children are sexual beings than we are to sexualize images of them in popular media. Children can be "sexual" in abstract, emotional ways, or they can be sexual in physical ways that are beyond their emotional maturity. An adult who takes advantage of one type of…

Chest Rockwell and Miller, you guys pretty much concisely covered all the hate bases for "American Beauty." What a contrived, condescending piece of shit.

Homer was wrong. It *is* hard being a film cricket.

I was seriously hoping O'Hara would make somebody (Lili Taylor, specifically) her love slave during her stint on "Six Feet Under." She's definitely got that "hot boss/professor" thing going.

In the "Sleepy Hollow" commentary, Burton talks about how the actor playing the Headless Horseman had to wear a blue neoprene mask to facilitate the digital removal of his head, and that it made it seem like he was shooting a bizarre Mexican-wrestling movie. Now I can't watch it without thinking of the Headless…

Thompson's '80s/'90s albums were pretty much what turned me against Mitchell Froom, although I already didn't care for his production work with other artists. "Mock Tudor" was like a sigh of relief, and it's one of my favorite albums of his career.

I wasn't crazy about Thompson's "Tempted," but I find his version of "Shenandoah" one of the most beautiful and moving I've heard of that old chestnut. His "1000 Years of Popular Music" was one of the most enjoyable concerts I've attended, and I hope to catch his second incarnation of it sometime soon.

I loved Linda's two recent albums, and I credit her and Richard's son Teddy for collaborating with her and helping her get back in the game. Her cover of Tom Waits' "Day After Tomorrow" on "Versatile Heart" is incredible; not many other singers can be so moving in such an understated way.