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Jack_Burton
05/15/09

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Whew... I thought I was going to have to go on without my morning Carrie Prejean fix. A day without hearing her name is like a day without sunshine.
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poires et poireaux
05/15/09

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"My new goal is to become the next Ruth Gordon."

Not that Peaches wasn't already the pinnacle of cool in my book, her Harold and Maude reference just put her over. the. edge. I am in love with this woman.
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Mrs. Stephen Fry
05/15/09

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I love Dustin Hoffman. Love him.
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WickedLittleHigh
05/15/09

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Oh Scrubs, why do you toy with me so? I came to accept that the show was over, and I mourned, but now? Make up your freaking minds!!

And Dustin Hoffman, you just gained a gazillion more cool points in my book, because I talk to all of my animals and think things along that line. I'm not the only one.
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alouette
05/15/09

@WickedLittleHigh (formerly BoredButNoLongerInNH): My boyfriend hates it (but I loooove it) and I finally said the other week, "FINE, IT'S DONE, STOP WHINING." Dunno how I'll break the news ...
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Lady Skittlehattington
05/15/09

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I think you mean to say that Oprah has one million FOLLOWEEEEEEEEEEEERS.
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anonanimal
05/15/09

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Criss Angel would pilfer cats now, wouldn't he?

He's probably really swift at it too.
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Rare Affinity
05/15/09

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If Andrew Lloyd Webber did NOT see Susan Boyle's recent appearance on Britain's got talent but he DID see her years ago on another show, how come he did not offer her a role then? Could it be that he needs Susan Boyle's current global fame to boost his show, whereas he was indifferent to her talent on her first television appearance.
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heykoukla
05/15/09

@Rare Affinity: He's got himself involved in Eurovision and has turned to TV talent shows to cast his shows...I'd say Lord Lloyd Webber is getting a bit desperate these days.
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tessa
05/15/09

@heykoukla: These days? ALW has always been pretty gimmicky, but that we just see more of it now because of the interwebz.
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heykoukla
05/15/09

@tessa: True, but he always had successful shows running to account for his fame. He's everywhere now, but doesn't seem to have staged anything original lately...although you could say he hasn't really ever done anything original...
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
05/15/09

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Hey Jane, I hate to break this to you, but Obama has a little bit too much on his plate to do a guest stint on a sitcom. Hugs and kisses, Sputnik
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RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee)
05/15/09

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"I think Dan Brown is a terribly bad writer..."

I wonder if "bad writing" is what makes certain books (lookin' at you, Twilight) so crack-like.
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chatterboxwriting
05/15/09

@RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee): Thank goodness someone agrees with me. I tried to read The Da Vinci Code, I really did. I didn't make it past the third page. It was horrible.
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RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee)
05/15/09

@chatterboxwriting: I slogged through The Da Vinci Code making little notes in the margin for which parts Brown directly lifted from Holy Blood, Holy Grail. STILL surprises me Brown won that lawsuit.
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AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope
05/15/09

@RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee): ooh, good call. I read both the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. I can't for the life of me remember what Angels and Demons was about, and I usually retain literary details in an obnoxious way (like cannot re-read books because I remember them so clearly). It's the Mary Higgins Clark principle of writing - leave 'em hanging and they'll come back for more. Doesn't mean it's good, and it doesn't mean it's quality. Dan Brown, and Stephanie whatsherface of Twilight are proof that a best selling book literature does not make.
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sassy
05/15/09

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It really bothers me when people say that motherhood makes them whole. I don't know why, but I guess it just makes me feel like my childfree self is never going to be whole or understand life/love/family/whatever because I'm not reproducing.
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BiteMeMitchell!
05/15/09

@sassy wants her own tenth Doctor: It bugs me too. Are you saying you don't really love your partner? Or your siblings? Or your parents? Or your friends? I wish people would just recognise that it's a different kind of love, by necessity you feel a lot more protective of your child than you would of, say, your brother, but that doesn't make your love for your brother any less valid, y'know? Sorry, had a big glass of wine at lunch, rambling....
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sassy
05/15/09

@BiteMeMitchell!: You're right though. I always worry that I'm just looking at things through my bitter, always criticized for my reproductive choices glasses, so I'm glad to see I'm not the only one. :)
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BiteMeMitchell!
05/15/09

@sassy wants her own tenth Doctor: CBC sisters! Seriously though, I'm happy for Rebecca, but I do feel like quotes like this just add to the ridiculous fetishisation of motherhood that's currently so rampant in Western society.
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NowhereGirl
05/15/09

@sassy wants her own tenth Doctor: You should just take what they say at face value. I imagine that they're talking about themselves, from their own personal perspective. Having children gives many women insights into their lives that they would never have seen otherwise. That doesn't mean that your choice not to have children is without value. Believe me, as a mother of two I am often jealous of my single kidless friends, and definitely see the allure of that lifestyle, but I also love my life the way it is. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I wish there wasn't such a tangible rift between mothers and non-mothers on this site. It makes me sad. I also think that if a woman brags about how "whole" and "complete" her life is now that she's had a kid, and how bereft and lonely your life must be cause you don't have one, I'd say that reflects a hell of a lot more on that woman than on you.
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DexterHaven
05/15/09

@BiteMeMitchell!: Indeed. I'm sure motherhood opens up a lot of new perspectives and insights, but this attitude negates the other types of experiences we have. Like, I feel that carrying my dying father to the toilet changed my life forever, but I don't presume that people who haven't had that type of experience don't understand love.
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
05/15/09

@sassy wants her own tenth Doctor: No, I agree as well. I don't have any kids (and not sure I want them), but I feel pretty whole. I wonder how many women who say that kind of thing really believe it or if they are just taking cues from society's views on women and motherhood? (Not having children, I really don't know-- it could easily be the latter)
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cocobanal
05/15/09

@NowhereGirl: I don't have children and of course I understand that having them adds an extra dimension to life and that those of us without children don't completely understand what that experience is like. But I do believe it is demeaning to childless women to make comments that make them feel less of a woman and less of a human because they have not been through this experience.

I am very sensitive to this, and I think it started when an older woman I worked with--I was around 32 and she was about the age I am now--told me that I would never be a real woman until I had children. Bull. Shit.
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NowhereGirl
05/15/09

@cocobanal: yeah, that is total bullshit. That lady sucks. But Sassy's comment said that it bothered her when all mothers said that their kids make them whole. Maybe they do! Why does it make you feel bad when other people say something like that? Is it just mothers? Or would you feel like less of a person if someone told you how climbing Everest changed their lives, or how finally taking that trip to Indonesia they've always want to completed them, or that they've finally whole after meeting some guy? It just doesn't make sense why you would let one person's shitty remark define your entire idea of motherhood.
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DexterHaven
05/15/09

@NowhereGirl: But the point is, I think, that we aren't constantly being bombarded by comments in the media by people about how climbing Everest chanaged their life: it's not a one-off, it's a pervasive cultural discourse.
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Cicada
05/15/09

@NowhereGirl: As a childless woman, I've had soooo many people tell me that I'll change my mind about having kids, or that I should become a parent to complete my life. It's crazy (and rude!), but it happens too often for me to think it's just those individual people. There are many, many messages out there telling women that you aren't truly fulfilled until you have kids.
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sassy
05/15/09

@NowhereGirl: It's very frustrating to hear those sorts of statements (in regards to child-having etc) because they are usually followed with a "some day you'll change your mind" or "you're just too immature/selfish to understand" when it is neither of those things. So I instinctively dread those comments at this point, because it is rare that I hear one that does not follow up with an insult.

Someone climbing Mount Everest doesn't put down my life choices, so it's really not a fair comparison at all.
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applejuice
05/15/09

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Why do they even bother making the items about LiLo "blind". Just call them all "Lohan Items". It'd be practically the same thing.
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
05/15/09

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Ooooh, I can't wait to get the EW in the mail today. I'm going to rip out all the pages of Christian and hang them on my bedroom walls, 7th grade style.
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wednesdayam
05/15/09

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Thank you for calling the Dodge Magnum a station wagon. It really is. I've teased friends who have bought it about owning a station wagon, and they're completely in denial, claiming it's an SUV and has a Hemi and all that nonsense.

It's a station wagon.

Completely off-topic, but still. Who uses a station wagon to try and rob Lohan's place?
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GirlFailer
05/15/09

@wednesdayam: I think it's a wagon too. I really want one though. It's fun in front and business in back. It's a reverse mullet with a hemi. I'M GETTIN' THE GROCERIES AT 100 MPH BISHES!
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mysterygirl
05/15/09

@GirlSailor: "It's a reverse mullet with a hemi" = awesome.
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Triana Orpheus
05/15/09

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I can not stand Ryan O'Neal. He didn't marry Farrah for all these years, after three children, but now he wants to? Please.

Also, those little Sprint GPS people scared the shit out of me. I thought bugs were crawling on my computer screen.
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Rare Affinity
05/15/09

@Triana Orpheus: Why does he want to be her widower? I take it, it would not be for her estate? If Farrah wanted a deathbed marriage that would be another matter entirely. being charitable, maybe Ryan just wants to be next of kin so he can deal with the doctors and arrange the funeral. Otherwise it would be out of his hands.
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FashionShowAtLunch
05/15/09

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Farrah! I love Van Morrison too.
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