That totally sucks.  I'm so, so sorry.

It's a little bit shocking to find this out.

I agree!  She's adorable and seems much happier to be there (and far less inclined to pick 16-year-old "pop diva" types) than Aguilera was.

If I were running the Devils I wouldn't have kept that first-round pick last year, thereby forcing myself to give up this year's first-rounder as the penalty for the Kovalchuk contract fiasco.  Gee, Lamoriello, aren't you glad, now that the team looks like it's going to miss the playoffs this year, that you kept that…

Yeah, there definitely seems to be a consensus here…

HAHA!  The theory in my house was that she was picking everyone (and then they weren't choosing her if someone else also turned around).  It was not at all surprising when she kept hitting her button even after her team was full.

A guy walks into a bar with an octopus. He sits it on a stool
and tells everyone in the bar that this octopus can play any musical instrument in the world. Everyone in the crowd laughs at him, so he says that he will wager
$50 to anyone who has an instrument that the octopus can play it.

That is SPLENDID.

You're going to have to split that life jackpot three ways, because I've never seen Glee either.  WOO HOO!  I'm rich!

That sucks!  If it helps at all, we seem to have skipped right over spring and landed with both feet in summer.  It's been in the 80s the last couple of days, and we should be having thunderstorms tonight.  I wouldn't mind dialing this down a bit having a few days in the 60s, but after such a shitty March it's hard to…

It's hard to resist a menu item called "Quack and Track", that's for sure.

Oh!  I meant to mention that my quest for a Quiz Show-perfect chocolate cake led to a recipe in "Baked: Elements" for chocolate cupcakes made with mayo instead of oil or shortening.  I converted it to a layer cake and it was amazing. 

There's clearly been a rash of sour cream theft, because I ran out this weekend, too.  The corn muffins we had with the amazing pork chile verde I made on Sunday were horrifically dry because of the sour cream shortage.  This crime wave is no laughing matter.

Those are super-cute!  I hear you about not wanting to do the brown shoe/black purse combo, but the older the get the less I give a shit about stuff like that.  One of my friends, when she turned 50, declared that she so didn't give a shit anymore that the world would be lucky if she bothered with pants, let alone…

It seems that a kick-ass commute shuffle should be a sign that your day is going to be awesome.  What a let-down that it wasn't.

Your honesty is making me feel guilty; I should admit that I switched from my all-iPod shuffle to my Sunshine Playlist shuffle mostly because I was cranky but partly because the former was spitting out songs I didn't want to have to cop to here.  Quit it with the Dead Weather, iPod!  Why are those songs even on you…

I'm not afraid to admit, hundreds of comments deep here, that I love The Voice.  Even after the spinning chairs are out.  Next week is battle rounds.  That's awesome.  It's a singing battle royale!  How is that not great television??

This is good advice even for foreign countries that are barely foreign.  One of the worst meals I've ever had was at a Mexican restaurant in Ottawa.  Look, I'm hardly an authority on Mexican food, but even I knew they were doing it wrong.

Congratulations!

Ooh, ooh, I was going to recommend that!