coffee express line ftw!!!

If Moulin Rouge isn't a jukebox musical then that phrase must not mean what I think it means …

i'm surprised the highest grossing female director of all time doesn't get an "emerging" blurb …

lol she's a pretty shitty Japanophile if she thinks this is what kimono looks like … or that traditional geisha have bangs … or that she's still young enough to get away with furisode (or the weird little sleeve wings she's trying to pass off as furisode) ...

I was always of the understanding that women like man-on-man because it's a way to fantasize sexually and romantically without the threat of another woman. I assume it's the same principle for men who like girl-on-girl ...

Yeah, no, I hated Lost in Translation something fierce. Didn't like 40 Days and 40 Nights either (while we're on the subject), and I thought the princess in A Knight's Tale was manipulative and the worst kind of supposed-to-be-awesome-but-is-actually-a-horrible-person love interest.

Well, I guess that puts soon-to-be-Mr. Lofty in the 3.7%. He's often told me that he would take my name if I wanted him to. However, I'm a big believer in names that "have a ring to them" and I really like the way my name sounds with his last name.

Yeah, sewing a pillow in home ec was co-ed, and sewing def comes in handy all the time IRL ... but if the movie had been about your <i>brother</i> sewing to save the day, that would have been impressively progressive, less so when it's about a princess-who-doesn't-want-to-be-a-princess discovering that the womanly…

Well, I didn't actually think Brave was that big of a step forward - Merida just swapped one stereotype for the other, never wore anything but a dress, AND HAD TO SEW TO SAVE THE DAY.

Same here.

$2,000 is half my entire wedding budget ...

Well, as long as we're talking about proposals ...

I just assumed the misinterpretation of signs and/or the manipulation of fanatics were among the many themes on GoT. She might not be an intentionally bad witch, just misled by her god or missing her god's point.

The Geisha and the Philosopher's Stone

I think you're thinking of "Geisha: A Life" by Mineko Iwasaki, but I also recommend "Geisha" and "Kimono" by Liza Dalby (which are entirely non-fiction and seriously enlightening). I love "Memoirs" as fiction, but I kind of hate Arthur Golden the more I learn about him.

"Well, not animals, really, so much as the scuttling disease portmanteaus we affectionately call 'rats ...'"