peta wilson and shane west connection
Shane west and Peta wilson were both in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen together….random pop culture connection. She owned him then too. That being said, shane west really is the weak link in all this….if he could be replaced by Timothy Olyphant…god that would be sexy, or…

Gaudy Night is my favorite romance novel ever….

I don't know what was hotter, that or when he gently swept her hair away when he fed her his blood to revive her.

I really dont want to see this movie
But does it go into the fact that Lorca got his ass killed by Franco while Dali basically was able to thrive? Because I know someone was being snarky before b/c the mustache and all, but Dali really DID tie his friends to the train tracks.

mbs, you just don't get it, I grew up with Chorus line. And these not so young hopefuls are professionals. Chorus Line was about old pros (relatively for the Broadway game) who had given up being stars and were just trying to get work at what they love. (Never mind that they were not going to be able to afford the…

This movie deserves higher than a B-
This movie is about the audition process, and any of you guys who like American Idol should really (If you can, ) go see this. It is about truly talented people and how arbitrary the audition process can be. At the same time, you realize why people who got the parts got them and…

Things that made me blissfully happy…."Dammitt Jim…." and a couple scenes later, "I'm a doctor, not a physicist…"

Sorry…. couldn't resist but….."I hope and I pray for Hester to win just one more "A"…..

I think Bird Without Wings far exceeds Captain Correlli's Mandolin, but we have to read Middlesex by Eugenides for a balanced approach

Book club
Okay I have lots of opinions here, please be patient with me on this.

Zadie Smith is purrfect, I should have listed her on my previous list of kick ass female writers, White Teeth, ON Beauty and even the Autograph Seeker are wonderful.

I think perhaps the best way is to go with literature written as genre fiction. But amen about the lack of XX chromosomes, there are some good female writers out there. Allegra Goodman, A. H. Holmes, Donna Tartt, Kate Atkinson, Zoe Heller, A. S. Byatt, P.D. James, Joan Didion, Anne Tyler,

Once again, Robbins entirely overrated, If you start reading him over age 20, the magic is gone.

Dom Delillo really irritates me, I try reading book after book after book but they all seem like they would work better as Sociology papers.

I kind of like literature books that also count as scifi as well.
Example: anything by Stephenson,
David Mitchell Cloud Atlas
Windup bird Chronicle or anything by Murakami

Those books are SO much fun. We can do a British Empire theme, Hornblower, Master and Commander, Flashman and Sharpe

Here Here, I need some people to motivate me to dive into Bolanos, either 2666 or Savage Detectives

I do drink gatorade more now….

Will it be disloyal to wear my 33 Dillon Panthers jersey now?

I like that explanation. The scene makes a lot more sense.