“Blue Nights” is one of those books I read once a year. Her choice of blue nights as metaphor - a time of year in which the days get shorter and it is a sign that winter is coming and there will be more darkness - always gets me.

There is a passage in”Blue Nights” where she gets defensive, even angry, about this. In the wake of her describing Quintana’s death, people wrote of her privileged upbringing, and I wonder if Didion felt that negated the difficulties that Quibtana had.

Even if CNN chose to forgive her, Cooper didn’t; Griffin later said in an interview that he never personally reached out to her, despite talking about her on TV.

Adrienne Barbeau as Catwoman was perfection.

I was hate-listening to Sean Hannity this afternoon and there is a feeling that liberals are protecting their own, and there is not enough outrage on behalf of these women.

I am biased because I am from Minneapolis (one of the freeway shots when Buscemi drives into the city is my route every day), but that movie will never not be perfect. Marge Gunderson is a good person in a bad world, and Frances honors her positivity and benevolence without dumbing her down.

One of the extras spoke up and walked off the set. I don’t remember if there was a lawsuit, but it got written about in “Entertainment Weekly”, which was quite mainstream at the time.

Up Close and Personal! Complete with Celine Dion power ballad at the end!

I remember was Carson was one of the earlier GOP candidates (in almost happy times). A co-worker of mine who was a very staunch Catholic loved him and went on about his credentials, how he had performed the most difficult surgeries known to modern medicibe, et cetera. I replied that I would absolutely be fine with…

Me too! It’s a few tracks too long, but it was a very formative album in my youth. I still quote it some times.

And also about your quarter-life crisis ... Return of Saturn is an astrological term for when Saturn comes back to your natal sign and you freak the fuck out about everything.

I saw her on tour last year. The arena was about half-full and papered (had she done a theater tour, she could have sold out). Blake Shelton made a cameo and everyone flipped out, but I already knew he was there because the ladies working the hot dog stand told me. Oh, and Eve was there and they did “Let Me Blow Ya…

I went to a haunted house with a man friend and was screaming so much that one of the actors broke character and whispered to him, “Your friend is awesome.” I don’t like them!

My father worked in a haunted house in the 1970's. One of the actors was stabbed to death by a spooked person who had a switchblade.

Per Remini, they were aggressively courting Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez — but they are rich and famous.

Yep. A church can definitely pressure its members into giving/tithing, but Scientology is based on you paying money up the wazoo to learn more about your “religion”.

Is Kim gonna be a regular this season? That’s quite a feat to be a regular and have your spin-off airing at the same time (Lisa Vanderpump is the only other one I can think of, and she isn’t the lead on her show). Kim may come across as vapid, but I can’t hate her for collecting her coins.

Their divorce was baddddd. Michelle gave up custody of Dakota and gave a scathing interview to Entertainment Tonight. I’m surprised Rosie said *anything*.

Alanis and Shania have the two best selling *specific albums* by a female artist (Jagged Little Pill and Come on Over). Mariah had six albums that decade, seven if you count Merry Christmas.

I always thought the last three tracks of “Petals” before “Rainbow (Interlude)“ segues into “Thank God I Found You” was MASTERFUL.