She needed to be reminded that most people don't believe in dragons either.

And if the following scene didn't look like sperm entering a vagina. Cool.

That print of the blue donkey — it looked familiar but a search brings up a Marc Chagall, and it's not the same one. Would Emmit have original/expensive art on his wall?

Not if it was your first pizza experience. Hell, my first spaghetti was from a Chef box. Growing up in rural Iowa in the 50's was NOT a gastronomic wonder, believe me.

Since you figured it out, can you explain it to me? Why did Mike ask for a gas cap for a Caprice wagon? He left the wagon at the junkyard. Did the guy who came at night have a new gas cap with a new tracker? We didn't see him take time to just replace the battery. And he ended up leaving with Mike's tracker? My…

Me too. They're not easy to find though — seldom seen on best seller lists.

Thanks for the tip — I'm always looking for good books set in the 19th century. Amazon had some for sale, but no reader reviews, and no "look inside" feature to check out the writing style. Still, high hopes. If you appreciate strong female characters, try Tie My Bones to Her Back by Robert F. Jones, and for a…

Speaking of dialect, would someone in 1915 really say "take a meeting"? And respond to a request with a "No problem"?

I didn't know that was Chris Brown either. What ticked me off about this episode was that Dre didn't realize how bad that commercial was. Not just changing the black woman into a white woman, but the whole thing — it was an artistic mess.

Good point. I think Perry saw the session as a challenge to Celeste. "How much will you reveal? Are you ashamed to admit you're staying with an abusive man? Will you admit that you like it, or at least that you like the end result, the spectacular sex?"

She didn't, but Perry will see it that way. That scene was so well written. It was like a game with Perry, and maybe with Celeste — "Let's see how far we can go here" — the words got gradually stronger, just like Perry's physical behavior.

One hand was on the front of her chest and moving toward her throat. He didn't just 'grab her shoulders' like he told the therapist. If that's all he'd done, Celeste wouldn't have responded with the threat to leave.

Why couldn't Claire just tell her staff that the truffles and massage and manicure were part of a birthday gift?

But does she know that Joel is in a psych ward and that Sheila is chained up in the basement? Do Abby and Eric even know about Joel? Maybe I need to rewatch.

We know Randall is an awesome adult, but I'm wondering if his willingness (which became enthusiasm) to blow off something very important to him is because he failed to do the same for Jack, and then Jack died. Those scenes had an "I learned my lesson" vibe to me.

You'll like The Heavenly Table, and your description of his writing is spot on. In the same vein (although not as raw) — Larry Watson and Larry Brown, and Tom Franklin.

I wrote to T.E.D. Klein to gush over The Ceremonies. He wrote back, and it turned out that he knew one of the attorneys I worked for. Also wrote to Dan Simmons after reading the Hyperion novels, and he responded. And George R.R. Martin, who sold me a book from his personal collection. This was before he wrote the…

I LOL'd at Poodle's comment about the kids and the maid having their own secret language.

5-0!

Jodie was talking about young Kate's appendectomy, not old Kate's gastric bypass.