Yep, pretty much. I guess that explains something about GenXers. We were pre-traumatized, or something, by the media the Boomers gave us access to, so we just stumbled into adulthood jaded and prematurely weary? (Jesus Christ, when I think about the weird French movies my parents watched with me on video because they…

The book is horrifying.  They really laid it all out there for kids back then.  Between that and Go Ask Alice and a bunch of less famous ones ... teenage life seemed like a bleak hellscape based on my elementary/middle school reading.  

I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that, based on the books alone, Roger is so so boring and annoying.

Not this mom--I agree with your rating.  

So Christlike.

So sorry and best wishes for your father’s recovery.

I don’t enjoy latter-day Morrissey (can’t since I don’t listen) but I enjoyed your comment very much because it was extremely British. It was like a little entry in “Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit.”  

It’s “psych”

Whatever else one thinks about Renner, can’t deny that was smart!

If I remember correctly Renner also had some kind of online venture, some Kelsey Grammar-esque glorified fan club?

What the hell??

Sandra Oh is great but the writing for her character in Season 2 was terrible. Basically she had two modes: sexual reaction to some violence or mischief by Eve, and mouth open and eyes watering with intense emotion because of same. What on earth is this character thinking, and does she have any idea what she actually…

Good ideas were made to be stolen (don’t quote me in court).

The voting buttons didn’t work for me but I vote for the Demi Moore one because I actually read it (via the library) and there’s no way I’m paying money for any of the others.  Belt: tightened.

I long for a world where women can age naturally without either being mocked for it or feeling the need to distort their faces with cosmetic interventions (or having the latter considered “keeping it tight” or “taking care of yourself”).  It is such bullshit.  

I very recently watched the first season of this show for the first time, and I especially loved the character of Dr. Bailey. With all the melodrama swirling around it was a great choice to have a character who observes but doesn’t engage in it (can’t say, of course, whether this is true of subsequent seasons).

Yes, thank you!!

Not at all, it also had endless, dull teen melodrama and a ludicrously implausible plot line concerning adoption (not the one about Bebe’s baby; I’m being vague to avoid spoilers). There were parts I liked, but on the whole, I did not love this book. And the “empathy” for Elena was pretty limited—as it would have to…

Pretty sure that is an old picture, too--isn’t her baby older now?

Well we learned, in the end, that Joss himself is actually creepy as fuck, and it’s easy to see, in retrospect, that his performative “feminism” was always deeply flawed.