I respond with that sarcastic smile where you also raise your eyebrows and avoid eye contact. Or I ignore them, which often results in an "excuuuse me" or "neevermind then" or "SOMEone's having a bad day" comment to my receding back.

Helping an unfortunate acquaintance whose birthday is the same day fill her favorite bar with people celebrating her. She wants it to be a costume party (calling it "Valloween") but I'm not sure I'll participate in that part, since it took all my energy to pull a costume together once this year.

Oh yeah, I remember that one! It was cute, but didn't feel to me like a theme they hadn't done before.

I'll get to see the animated shorts next Sunday. I'm looking forward to it. Mr. Hublot is the one whose animation style (based on stills) is most immediately appealing to me, and I love Wallace & Gromit, so hopefully I like it as much as you did. I loved, loved Paperman last year (my favorite part by far of seeing…

Captain Phillips is the one Best Picture nom I haven't seen yet. I really need to get on that.

I recently bought Catch Me if You Can on a whim for $2 at a secondhand book/DVD sale. I haven't seen it since around when it came out. You've reminded me I still need to rewatch it.

Friday night I stayed in, partly because my roommate and her boyfriend went to the arcade bar and failed to invite me, despite the fact that I don't consider it a coupley place to go, and partly because I found out a second season of Bravest Warriors is 7 episodes in and I DON'T NEED YOUR PITY INVITES ANYWAY.

Oscar shorts!

Glad I'm not the only one for whom even basic plot points slip away after a first read. I've been meaning to reread LOTR for a long time. If I can stop checking out 7 books at a time from the library only to have 5 of them sit while I slowly make it through two, until I'm forced to turn them all back in in shame, I'm…

I'm working my way slowly through We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen. It was slow going at first because of the jump in time/setting/character between parts, which is a natural function of the book spanning 100 years, but which was jarring to me and took me out of it for a bit every time. I'm a little over halfway…

Oh, I'm 8 hours late, but me me! I read The Passage for a postmodern fiction class a few years ago. I didn't finish it when I was supposed to for the class discussion, but I did go back and read the rest that summer. I really loved it and was eager for the next one.

My mistake then!

I believe any of the others would have been eligible, but I can't say that for absolute certain. I read this Slate article this morning, I thought it was a good case for why the song should have been nominated/why excluding something for evolving from/sampling another song is ridiculous these days: http://www.slate.com…

It wasn't original enough, apparently. Too similar to a song by the same name that was out in the 60s.

Not the part of tumblr I've seen. They love it for its fleshed out female characters/the fact that it's more about their relationship than "gotta get a man." I don't know though, I haven't seen it yet.

My roommate and I aren't doing anything until a party on Saturday, but we're going as Tina and Louise Belcher (I'm going to be Tina). I thought about doing a black wig, but my hair's already short so I'm just going to find some yellow barrettes and call it good.

She was a major character on United States of Tara (she played Toni Collette (Tara)'s daughter), which is where I first knew her from, and I find her wonderful. If you haven't seen that show though (and sadly it seems not many people have) I get that you wouldn't be very familiar with her.

Yeah, I'd much rather it be more akin to that reading too. Is it in this same conversation that they bring up the fact that Lorelai's always said she just wants to know when it happens? Or is that later? That's a much healthier sentiment. It's like she wants to think she's all cool-mom about sex, but ultimately she…

Yeah, she 100% accepted his proposal, had the wedding all planned, had the shower and the parties, had that moment where he tried to discipline Rory like his own daughter (part of what made Lorelai start second-guessing, right?) and fled right before the wedding. Sookie had the cake made already. Definitely not just a…

Thank god, I was hoping someone linked to that.