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@Sukie in the Graveyard: My husband and I were watching it on DVD (yes, it appeared on my doorstep the day it came out...) and I turned to him during the cave scenes and said: "You should really spend more time in the university machine shop. It's a cool skill set to have." He was dumbstruck (a rarity for him), but

@squirrelcop: Pick up the soundtrack for Living Out Loud—Queen Latifah's version of "Lush Life" is sublime, and the scene in the film when it appears was the first time the director was able to execute a sequence in the exact way he had imagined.

@Sally Tomato: Between McFadden's calling cards and Duffy's beepers, you are so spot-on. And now I'm thinking of McFadden and Carrie's sushi date and Liz and Duffy's dinner and how they both had "dietary needs"—hi-larious!

@LindsayC: The priest who married us (only a year or two older than us and recently just out of seminary) encouraged us to live apart for a month prior to the wedding. We ended up only doing a week (the week leading up to it) and it drove me crazy. We also tried to abstain for a month prior, but that didn't work

@hortense: I'm so excited to see your weekend stuff when I get back to the States—I'm enjoying a glass of Chardonnay (house wine is gratis at our B&B here in Italy) and just catching up on some of the news in Jezebel/Gawker land.

My fiance loves suits and similar styles, so I just encouraged him to embrace that as we dated, and now he is definitely one of the most stylish guys in his department.

@angryblackgurl: My godmother threw me a "green" shower earlier in the summer (no wrapping paper on the gifts, but given how much packaging Crate & Barrel uses, I still tore through a lot of paper), and my Griddler came in a Tesco Ireland reusable tote. I was almost more excited about that than the actual gift, and

@bluebears: It's like when Michael Scott blames Dwight for sucking the funny out of the room during "The Dundies"—Leanne was sucking the hip-hop out of the room!

@wordinedgewise: We missed the first six minutes due to our DVR not picking it up (it too has been confused by the change in time this season), but when we re-taped it and watched it, the second that Suede mentioned how he's been in the bottom two so often immediately signaled to me that he was a goner. And it was

@braak: I know! Given Guy's recent track record I was worried, but RDJ and now Rachel McAdams? All kinds of awesomeness.

@PinkSoxHat: And when that isn't an option, basketball. My alma mater had no football team, but our basketball team was the biggest deal ever.

@BlondeGrlz: Ooh! I saw that house in an old issue of InStyle—I don't know what's more droolworthy—the house, or the fact that Christopher Meloni plays guitar there.

@hortense: Now I have visions of him being a younger version of that English country vet who wrote All Creatures Great and Small, amongst other titles. That makes me smile.

@Jessi Ramsey: I hate, hate HATE it when people tell you how to feel when something traumatic happens. Don't tell me to be happy, or strong—just let me deal with it. Especially five minutes after said event occurs.

@hummingpenguin: And Mad Men! The best bit last night was between Steve Carell and Ricky Gervais by far.

@Triphena: Everyone's makeover was, I feel, very uneventful. Even Elina's—once she got used to it, it looked great. You should have changed the rules to drink whenever Tyra-fairy appeared, or really, whenever Tyra appears in a self-congratulatory photo (look at ME! I WAS A REAL MODDLE!)

@sybann: Really? That sucks, as that's fucking disgusting. There is nothing worse than irresponsible animal owners not picking up after their dogs when they go out in public—I've had dog shit on my shoes more times than I'd like to remember thanks to the assholes who go out really early in the morning and think they

Because I've literally spent the entire weekend planning my wedding (well, doing details), I'd like to say:

@morninggloria: Oh, I've been there—nothing sours your mood like a shitty commute, especially when it's bus-related. I've had way too many of those—and the WORST is when they are when you're trying to get home.