lesborella

I recall that one guy was kicked off a flight for having a book with a picture of a nuclear bomb exploding on the front. Odd, odd world.

i'm impressed that you read a book in one sitting. there might have been a time when i used to do that ... i have to admit, the wife & i are both pretty leisurely readers. especially anymore.

i used to call jennifer love hewitt "that cleavage girl" - it seemed whenever she was on on TV, she was wearing a low cut blouse and bending over a lot. often while wet.

i mean, i'm not complaining per say ... but that shit is hardly deep method.

whoa. it's like we commented at the same time, yet independently....

first off - sheehan, i was *not* aware of antisemitic comments coming out of her. can you expand? i'm intrigued by that.

second - marketing to kids and power rangers and shit. i have nothing serious to respond with from you story - though it was really interesting. my only thought is this: i know that the shows i watched as a kid (transformers, gobots, heman, thundercats, gijoe, silver hawks etc) were ALSO just elaborate commercials. yet, through the fog of nostalgia, i remember these as *quality* shows. in some ways, i do think that at least those shows were less obvious. i mean, pokemon: the point of the show (gotta catch em all!) is to BUY the damn things. that's the plot. at least tranformers fought for justice or something and had explosions.

you really remember a lot of your dreams ... i never remember crap. or just an image - usually all jumbled. my wife can recall the whole plot of her dreams too...

people and babies - man are they weird. a lot of my (old high school) friends are having babies now. pretty soon i'll have to start having those discussions where i defend my free swinging graduate student lifestyle.

by & by, you're right - not enough people adopt. i'm all for technological progress and what it can do to make the world a better place. and i can *understand* why a couple would want their old child, or why a woman would want to carry their own child. there are affective and logical reasons why we could see this. but i DO think people could stand to be a bit more open minded...

I especially love how my wife gets the penis enhancement emails and I get the breast enhancement ones.

The really really sad thing is that these commercials can only exist because somewhere someone buys into them.

Awwww whoever showed up LOL!!!!! He is still a cutie!

i in fact DID see this movie this weekend! i was TOTALLY blown away ... sometimes bale's "batman voice" didn't fully work for me. but i TOTALLY loved how straight they played the movie.

one of my favorite parts was the katie holmes/christian bale dynamic. some people have complained that this is an "obligatory" love story, but it seemed better handled than in the other "batman" movies. what made it work was that bale is pretty much never really interested - he's batman, and he's dedicated to that. so the love story isn't there just b/c it's required to have a female lead in a big hollywood movie - it works to show us a bit how batman's head works. i liked it.

What about William S. Burroughs?

the dog is camera shy eh? he values his *priv-acy"

yup, the quad cities IS a real place. not a lot of folks have heard of it. more people know the individual cities (rock island and moline in illinois, davenport and bettendorf in iowa) than the entity "quad cities." it's an al right place - better than it deserves to be, given the number of industrial factories that have closed up in recent years.