That's neat! My parents' close friends made friends with Monica's parents, in a similarly random manner, after the scandal.

portishead's cover of glory box, recorded live does it for me.

My first viewing of Despicable Me. :)

Yes, that book in particular! That is incredibly awesome about your prof. FLB posts about workshops she holds around Culver City all the time. I have family there... I get so tempted!

Yea! I think the series worked on a lot of levels. They're the only dystopic novels I need to read ;)

Thank you!

tx for the motivation to depixelate :)

The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld

That's all one really needs, isn't it? ;)

By far, my most formative author was Francesca Lia Block. Judy Blume and others were there before I got in the throes of things... but FLB got me through some tough, tough times. I was my own weird kid, not exactly like Weetzie or any of the others, but I identified so much with each of their struggles, and the…

I'm pro-covers, and I like this one, but I'd actually like to hear a studio version. I don't know if it was the ambient noise that threw me off, or if I was distracted by her awesome pink suit ;), but it wasn't as full of a sound as I wanted.

I love seeing the Joel defenders! This season has been.... agh, I don't know. But when he was smiling with Crosby, I was glad. To see glimpses of the "real" Joel, and to see Sam Jaeger's face just light up the way it does so beautifully :)

I bought my plain, solid color t-shirts at chico's for years. They stain way too easily, though. :/
I always liked the Lillian Vernon catalogs when I was a kid - all the personalized crap you could want!

Well, Claire and Nate were my favorites, after all. Okay, so it's a stretch to fit them in those categories, maybe, but they were the first people I thought of.

Fantastic! (I'm such a klutz, it wouldn't work even if I was ass-less!)

gives me the good kind of shivers. just watched that episode.

I think you need to add ass-less to that list. My derriere would make it impossible to languish!

Nope!

Yeah. Visceral reactions here, this guy's creepy.

Not a bad idea! I know from the weekend sign-offs that there are a bunch of us.