I am unreasonably excited about "The Custom of the Country." Undine Spragg is one of the great anti-heroines.

This is my memorized speech on blue laws in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (learned in college, I graduate in 2002 so it is possible that some things may have changed):

Just want to remind everyone that this isn't his first marriage. He was once married to this lovely lady:

Almost worked for these ladies.

House of Cards is filmed primarily in Maryland, as is Veep.

Thomas Great Hall!!!! YEEEESSSSS!

The briefest of glimpses of Bryn Mawr's Taylor Hall (in the pep rally scene). . .and then they switch to establishing shots clearly filmed in southern California, despite the show being set in Philly. sigh.

And Nan Flannigan calling Olivia Pope for help? Yes.

My dad just called trying to get me to change the channel to something involving Jeter. Dude, Scandal is on, I hate the Yankees, and Jeter will be all over the news in the morning. It's not happening.

A Heathers reference, Ya Heard with Perd, and don't give a fuck Mellie. Best Scandal ever?

So we aren't going to talk about the fact that that creepy prank guy tried to tackle Kim as she got out of the car for this event? The video is horrifying.

Not only is his name Peregrine, he actually goes by Stoker. I'm working on an event with him at the moment. It's very funny to be cced on emails from a duke signed "Stoker."

I already said this on FB, but I want a Danielle Steele-esque miniseries about Debo. In addition to her sisters, her sisters-in-law were Kick Kennedy and Adele Astaire. It would be so good (if one already exists please point me in the right direction).

My assistant is friends with Sam Heughan. As I was sneaking in peaks at Outlander recaps today (including that Vulture post) it was all I could do not to be like, "so you know your friend's sex face is all over the internet today right?" Just didn't seem appropriate. That face though. . .

I know that Amtrak seats usually have a foot rest (and more leg room in general). I agree, it would be fabulous if planes could have a foot rest and still have room under the seat for your purse. At least if you have the window seat on the plane you can put your foot on the bulk head. I'm an aisle person, because…

Cold Mountain was also filmed in Eastern Europe but was supposed to be set mostly in North Carolina. But then again, NC often stands in for upstate New York in films (for instance Last of the Mohicans was filmed on the Biltmore estate, and Dirty Dancing was partially filmed near Lake Lure). As someone who lives in…

Someone on the last flight I was on was clipping their nails. I could hear it. So gross.

I don't understand taking off your shoes on the plane. Your feet swell on planes, getting your shoes back on will be uncomfortable. And I really don't get people who take off their shoes and then walk around the plane. You don't know when that carpet was last cleaned, let alone the bathroom floor.

My mother tried to instill in me this one (BIG in her mind) rule: you dress up for planes, shopping, and the theater. The shopping one was a hold over from the 50s and 60s when it was a bid deal to go downtown and you wore white gloves and stuff. She let that one go somewhere around 1995. I dressed up for planes up…

Slight book spoiler, but Jaime is a virgin. At this point in the story he really is supposed to be somewhere between blushing youth and strapping, virile buck.