look, jeanne

bk has a new blog!

davenport, calif.

I am embarrassed, ok

On a recent morning television panel, former Swedish Green Party leader Birger Schlaug said that all Chinese look alike. In particular he was talking about the young women who, dressed in uniforms and in identical hairdos, carried the signs bearing the names of the different countries during the opening ceremony.

I've seen similar comments made on Swedish blogs.

Intercultural research states that it's easier for us to recognize and remember faces within our own race. But I would guess that tendency decreases when, or if, we are actually exposed to people of other races.

It may be that the China Olympics is the first opportunity many Swedish people have had to see large numbers of Asians. Because obviously Asians don't look any more alike than Swedes do.

So, yeah, look a little closer everybody.

no a sports fanatic I am not

I just watched my first ten seconds of Olympic coverage, and I got all confused. It was an underwater shot and it seemed to me everything was upside down. I almost got a little sick.

Backstroke.

italian flair: the fiat 500 interior

happy friday

Remember these?

what the guy outside safeway was singing

let's talk about the fiat 500 (I am getting a black one to match the iphone dan is getting me for christmas)

This is an old Fiat 500. Those are small Italian cars, and they were made between 1957-1975. Super cute if you ask me.
This is a new Fiat 500. It was first presented in 2007. Cool, huh? It's super popular in Italy, and it's won a bunch of awards. I want one pretty bad.

Here is a British TV road test where they are comparing it favorably to their own new Mini:

o people are funny

Somebody's Facebook status line: If Michael Phelps were a country (Phelpsylvania, perhaps), he'd be tied for third overall in gold medals won.

Edit: Guess the someone had borrowed the joke.

Thanks Mayka.

from the atlantic.com

Here is an article I'll read tonight when I have more time.

being offended

When I first moved to the US there were certain American words and expressions I hadn't heard before, and that I had to learn. The reason I didn't understand them was usually that the word or expression referred to a phenomenon that was new to me. In those cases guessing doesn't help. Otherwise North American and Northern European cultures are similar, and most things seem familiar.

The concept I struggled with the longest was to be 'offended'. I asked dozens of classes to explain the word to me, but I still wasn't sure. We don't use that idea in that way in Sweden, I kept thinking to myself.

But, actually, from what I read, now they do. The word 'kränkt' in Swedish seems to be used in a similar way nowadays.

When I finally got the American concept of 'being offended' I thought it was dumb. To me it sounded as if people assume they have a God given right not ever to step in dog poop in their lives, and if it happens anyway, they are offended. That's unrealistic, and dumb. Whenever I come across the word 'kränkt' in Swedish I think the same thing. Too much emotion in the wrong place, self centeredly directed at the world in general. Wipe the poop off your shoes and move on already.

well well well

What Maureen Dowd has to say.

man on wire

This is one of the most amazing films I have ever seen. It tells the story of how, in 1974, Frenchman Philippe Petit managed to walk a tightrope between the Twin Towers. That's him in the photo there.

I don't know what to say. Just go see it already. You won't regret it.

green of envy

Dan bought an iphone.

All I hear is Look! and there we go again showing me another cool application. Grrrrr.

I like my people

I watched the 'Parade of Nations' part of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.

It was a long winded affair. There are a lot of nations in the world.

I was waiting for my people, who came in 20th from the bottom. That took a while, but then I got to see them for about five seconds. Yay!

Obviously the parade of nations was a highly symbolic affair. Most nations chose to wear outfits that were nationalistic, or at least showed off the design talents of the country.

The Swedes? Not so much. The women wore Chinese inspired tunics, and it looked like the men's sports jackets had Chinese collars. Not very stylish, and not very Swedish.

Still those outfits struck me as very Swedish choices. In their quiet ways Swedes are cultural extroverts. We might come across as shy, but we like to try new things, travel, and be changed.

However many political interpretations can be made of those Chinese collars, to me they are endearing. Wearing those frumpy tunics the Swedish women attempted to do one thing no other nation did: communicate with the Chinese in their own language.

someone else is furious

If you read Swedish, read the entry "Den stora bron".

monterey, calif.

carmel mission basilica

redwoods

date my ex: the dumbest show ever

Someone at LA Times had a good time writing this.

so I am furious again

One of my students this summer commented that it is hard to know how to deal with members of underrepresented groups because on the one hand they want to be treated like everybody else, and on the other hand they want respect for who they are and their unique experiences.

I think that's very well put, because I think from his perspective, that's exactly it.

What I try to teach my white students is to come up with a practical solution to that dilemma, for themselves. They need to figure out how to act to both ends of the spectrum, at the same time.

And so does the rest of society.

I am not saying it's easy. But who said life was going to be easy?

Right now Barack Obama is being criticized for injecting race into the presidential campaign, and for playing the race card from the bottom of the deck. Things are fine as long as we pretend no one has color, right?

In a hierarchical society, pretending that race, gender, sexual orientation, or class does not matter always benefits those on top. The experiences connected with being oppressed are silenced. That's how it works.

In a political campaign an African American candidate interested in winning cannot talk about race, or how race comes into the race. He cannot speak the truth because the truth would upset the white majority, and he would loose.

One lesson I try to give my white students is that you can show respect by shutting up and listen when members of underrepresented groups speak of their experiences.

That's easy.

As a society we need to do the same, and fast. What we have now is a situation where the first African American candidate for president cannot talk about his race. It' s a disgrace.

if you read real fast, I guess, maybe.

The UPS woman opens the gate to my yard. I can hear her but not see her because the blinds are shut.

- Hello?
- Hello?
- Are you Loretta?

this looks like it might be a weird experience, come october

this american life breaks your heart

Here is that link.

wall-e (out there is a world outside of yonkers)

I did like the opening half hour or whatever it was with no dialogue. But most of the rest of the movie is pretty two dimensional, I think.

movies

I like: The Dark Knight, Hellboy II, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
I don't like: Wall-E.

And I guess Mamma Mia I will have to go see by myself.

reading glasses also help when you write, it turns out

So I broke down and bought a pair of reading glasses. Cheapo, but still.

That distinctly middle age experience was balanced by the check-out guy at the drugstore calling me Miss fourteen times during our brief interaction.

No, it wasn't Ms, it was Miss.

pet peeve: grammar edition

I don't know when it happened, but at some point people started attaching the prefix "pre-" left and right in unnecessary places like it would save their life. Drives me nuts!

Cooking shows are the worst. There they "pre-sift" flour, "pre-cut" tomatoes, "pre-chop" onion, and "pre-wash" salad greens. In short (and here comes my favorite), they "pre-prepare" ingredients. They actually say that. "Pre-prepare". What's wrong with people? "Pre-prepare" is tautological, meaning that you say the same thing twice. I'll get it the first time, don't wear me down.

The thing is that without exception that added-on "pre-" can be taken out, without the meaning being changed. I mean if I say that I have cut the tomatoes, the verb tense indicates that I did it already, right? And that I did it before whatever is going on now? What more do you need to know?

for the record: I don't remember the tv series at all and I am not sure I want to see the movie

There is a movie based on Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisted coming out soon.

In the early 1980's there was a TV series based on the same book. It was hugely popular and my friends and I watched it religiously. All of a sudden I am brought back to rainy and cold winter streets, and memories of who my best friends were at that time. I am rarely in touch with them. I don't miss the liar of the bunch, but the other two I liked a lot.

oh yeah there is a presidential race going on

Get an Obama button.

in america

So I had lunch today at the little place where I often go. I had a Korean noodle soup, and it was good.

When I was sitting there waiting for my food the lady came out from behind the counter to ask me if I had dropped $20 as I was paying for my food. I was pretty sure I hadn't, but I checked my wallet anyway. No, wasn't mine. I told her so.

At that moment the guy sitting at the next table asked where the bill had been found. She told him on the floor. He said he thought it was his; he had kept $20 in his pocket but hadn't been able to find it when he was going to pay so he had had to use a credit card instead.

Great, guy got his money back, everyone was happy.

The American part of this story? After he had gotten his money back, and he had put it away, the guy turned to me. "Thank you for being honest", he said. "I really appreciate that." And I said that of course I wasn't going to take money that wasn't mine, blah blah. And we told each other to have a good rest of the day and then he left.

Americans like to thank each other for things. I really like that habit. It only takes fifteen seconds but it makes a world of difference.

I love my emails

Got this today from a former student:

"I just wanted to tell you a funny thing that happened to me recently. I met this guy who is a friend's friend's friend, and who struck me right away as being kind of in love with himself. I met him the first time going bowling with a group of people, and he has shoulder-length-ish hair that he would shake around a lot and put up and down and play with all the time, and he took his game very seriously. Anyway, I was at a party recently that was Olympic-themed, and I went as Mt. Olympus. I was standing talking to someone, and this guy comes up and yells, "Hey, Mt. Fuji!!"

So I asked, "Oh, because I'm Asian?" (He's white.) And he got really defensive and said a bunch of stuff about how he doesn't know a lot of mountains, and the Olympics are in China and Mt. Fuji is the only name of a mountain in Asia that he knows about, etc. It was pretty funny to me at the time, and an interesting example of the ways people's perceptions work, and what a sensitive subject race still is in a lot of ways."

I love it when the students keep feeding me these stories, these funny little everyday examples of how people think and speak. You can't make them up.

basil

thank you, facebook

I just reconnected with a student who graduated years ago. He is the only student I have ever had who would sit through class just because he wanted to learn. At least two quarters he attended without being enrolled. Another quarter I turned him and a friend away, because the room was packed already. I still feel bad about that.

for ever and ever

nothing is real

I am a cold desserts purist

I like vanilla ice cream. And strawberry sorbet. Lemon sorbet. Chocolate ice cream. And the hazelnut ice cream that you get in Italy.

I do not like ice cream with cookie batter in it. Or cake batter. Or bits and pieces of candy. Or both. Yukky, if you ask me.

al gore doesn't read my blog

So yeah last week I innocently bought the Chronicle and Dan said I was killing the planet.

So today I brought a reusable grocery bag with me when I went to the stores. The bag stayed in the car while I shopped at Whole Foods and Safeway. I don't know how that happened. I'll burn in hell.

ooh don't even think of the nerd factor

So I drove Dan's truck around town this morning to do errands. Driving the truck means stereo instead of mono radio, and no 1970's VW engine to drown it out. It's pretty much like Christmas.

I happened to catch one of my favorite NPR shows, Car Talk. It's a weekly show where two brothers in Boston answer call-in questions about cars and driving. Callers often imitate the weird noises their cars make, and the brothers are usually able to figure it out. It's funny. And you get good advice too. Like that it's cheaper to replace your brakes than your clutch, so you shouldn't down shift as you come up to a red light. Guess who stopped doing that right away.

he taught me the word 'jewfro'

Happy birthday Jason Cohn.

more from this american life

Very cute, touching, and funny story about gay marriage (or not). Starts 18 minutes in.

waddaya know

Spanish: rosa
English: pink
Swedish: rosa

apparently he does remember the clothes. the one part you'd wanna forget.

A decades old Swedish summer tradition is a daily radio show on the national public radio where someone is given an hour and a half to tell whatever stories they want, and play whatever music they want. When interesting people make good use of their time and it's great radio.

On Sunday I heard Björn Ulvaeus's show. He is one of the Bs that helped make up ABBA, and it's him on the right there, in the dark suit.

Björn Ulvaeus spent his hour and a half talking about his lack of 'situation memory'. Apparently he doesn't remember many of the things that ABBA did. He said he doesn't even remember things that pretty much everybody else on the face of the earth remember, if they were born at the time.

Startling, huh?

In sensitive Scandinavian mode Björn examined possible reasons. He referred to discussions he had had with psycho therapists, and sessions he had had with hypnotists. In the end, his conclusion was that the reason he doesn't remember is that he never really felt it was him who did the different things. He has, he told us, a really weak sense of self.

Imagine that. Enourmously successful, self revealing, sensitive. No sense of self. And then the punch line: I am a perfect example of how you don't need self esteam to become successful.

moo

Through this really pretty site (it's in Swedish, but everybody can enjoy the pretty photos) I found this really cool company that lets you upload your own photos and design business cards, note cards, stickers, and more. I've ordered two sizes of business cards. These are the large (normal size) ones. Stickers are next.

hi cecilia

To respond:

I was at Whole Foods today and they apologized for making me wait, because the store policy is not to start ringing up the next customer's items until they're done packing the previous customer's bags. No one should be made to feel they're rushed out of there, they explained. So yeah.

it's the apple drug

I don't know what's wrong with me but I think I want an iphone.

little survivors of the heat

as monica and robyn well know

Wanna feel like a winner? Invite me to play facebook scramble. I suck so bad it's not even funny.

pet peeve/mini rant

I bought some really tasty bread the other day, and on it I put butter, and really tasty ham. I had no plan, I was hungry and just grabbed the closest things. It was super good. And it reminded me of France and the sandwiches you buy to-go in bakeries.

One thing that Americans do that irritates me and sometimes drives me plain crazy is assuming that "European", "French", and "Italian" (other European countries usually don't count) equal fancy and complicated. That is so not true. The trick of good cooking (or, as in this case, good assembling) is using high quality stuff and being able to make three ordinary things taste wonderful together. Simplicity.

Same goes for the Los Gatos Diner milkshakes, actually.

back to normal

85F/29C.

We'll get back to our regular programming soon.

update

According to the weather people it was 106F/41C here today.

getting worse

103F/39.4C.

fever

100F/38C in the backyard.

summertime

So it's hot, and when it's hot you go to the movies.

There is a lot of crap out.

Hancook has mostly gotten bad reviews, but it's not all that bad. It's pretty funny, actually. The reviewers all say there is an unnecessary plot twist towards the end, but I don't agree. I am not going to give it away, but the feminist in me got a little up in arms there for a moment reading the reviews.

happy 4th of july everybody

I am reading Working Towards Whiteness. How America's Immigrants Became White by David R. Roediger, and I came upon this gem regarding the term English-speaking races, used in the early 20th century:

[...] the term "English-speaking races" - so at odds with presumed connections of race and biology - recurred again and again. Theodore Roosevelt, social reformers, steel mill workers, immigration officials, and sociologists regularly used it. Warne's jeremiad against the "invasion" of new immigrants denominated the "foreign-born from [northern and western European] countries supplying the earlier immigration as English-speaking" and the arriving "Slavs and Italians" as not "English-speaking." In fact, as Isaac Hourwich showed at the time, data from the Dillingham Commission suggested that, controlling for length of U.S. residence, immigrants from Poland may have been more "English-speaking" than those from Germany. Warne was thus right to admit a certain absence of "scientific precision" in terming the Germans, French, Dutch, Swiss, Norwegian, and Swedish as "English-speaking", but the idea that a language change could announce a racial transformation spoke profoundly to the biosocial definitions of race. Peter Robert's revealing teacher's manual, English for Coming Americans (1912), counseled an alternative strategy for teaching Scandinavians, Germans, and Finns as against the "wholly different problem" of laborers from southern Italy, Slavs, Hindus, Chinese, or Japanese. Those born in "favored nations" should not, he warned, be mixed with new immigrants and Asians as both of the latter groups suffered from "a heritage of inefficiency and sloth... which will take more than a generation to slough off". (p 52-53)

It's all a matter of creatively defining "us" and "them". Let's define you as "English-speaking", because that means you are one of us, irregardless of whether you actually speak the language or not.

if you fight against human rights I guess that is what you get

Former Senator Jesse Helms died today. Someone I know, who is half Black, half Filippino, and gay, put on his Facebook status line:

Ding dong the witch is dead. Helms is dead. The witch is dead.

fun fact from the american association of university professors

The salaries paid to head football coaches at Division I-A universities are ten times as high as the salaries to senior professors.

The full 2007-08 Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, here.

it's a sin to tell somebody they are a nobody

Recently I happened to hear a speech given by an undocumented student. That is, a student who is putting herself through school, while she is lacking the documents that would allow her and her family to reside legally in the United States. They are, to use a different term, illegal immigrants.

It took this young woman five years to get through a two year program at a community college. Given her legal status she wasn't eligible for any form of financial aid or loans, and her parents were not able to help her financially. To save up money for books and tuition, she took quarters off and worked full time, and more. Then she went back to school until she ran out of money. It takes a lot of tenacity to keep that up for five years. But she did, and now she is transferring to a well known four year college. She is an English major, and, judging from her speech, a gifted writer.

She gave her speech in English and Spanish, intertwining translated paragraphs. She cried when she spoke about the sacrifices of her parents, the gardener and the cleaning woman. She cried when she repeated what they constantly tell her, that "just because we are nobody, doesn't mean that you have to be a nobody".

She said about her parents that, "just because they never went to school, doesn't mean they are not teachers".

For eight years I have taught at a very good private university. I have had more than a thousand students. If I think long and hard I can come up with names of five (5) students who I think would be able to give a speech as eloquent as the one I heard this week.

I am not saying the immigration issue is easy. But I do think that young men and women who work hard for their education should be recognized as the assets that they are. Smart, tenacious, bilingual, and bicultural, isn't that exactly what society needs right now?

asian me

Mayka found this site, where you can upload an image and have software transform you into different races, ages, genders, and artistic renditions. So, this is me, East Asian:
And, lifelong dream fulfilled, me as a Modigliani painting:

a 'san diego red' turns fuchsia in the bay area

to all of you men out there

If you ask a woman what year her car is, and if she answers that it is a -72, do not ask her if she is the original owner.

Do not do this, however slightly intoxicated you are, there in the Safeway parking lot.

makes you furious

I think Michelle Obama seems cool. She reminds me of students I've had and women I've met. I've enjoyed listening to her and I've been impressed. I like her no nonsense attitude.

Then I heard the other day a pundit say that very likely Michelle Obama will be made a target in this fall's presidential campaign. And then I started thinking.

Even though her husband, Barack Obama, biracial as he is, successfully has been able to balance identifying as a black man and still be perceived as multicultural, Michelle Obama sure is a black American woman. And that's what it's all about, right? America might be ready for a biracial president, but is America ready for a black First Lady?

If her husband gets elected, there will be three descendants of slaves living in the White House.

Imagine that.

When those right-wing attacks start coming, remember what the goal is: keeping the White House white.

dinner

Steak, tsatsiki, sundried olives. I am just saying.

Tsatsiki:
Pour 1 liter or so of natural yogurt (such as Nancy's: that has no crazy additives, and real honest to God bacteria) into a colander or sieve lined with cheesecloth (or a Melitta filter, or sturdy paper towel). Let sit for at least an hour. This allows the yogurt to thicken.
Peel and super finely dice 1 cucumber. Then place it in bowl, sprinkle with salt, mix, put a plate on top, and put something heavy on the plate.
Let the cucumber too sit for about an hour, or longer.
Finely chop a couple of garlic cloves.
Drain the liquid that has formed around the cucumber.
Mix everything.
Add a couple of tablespoons of olive oil.
Let sit over night if you have the patience.
Yum.

I made this for a potluck once and there was a Greek person there and she approved. Very Greek.

thanks to online banking we will always remember this

May 21, 2008: First day I paid more than $30 ($30.30 to be exact) to put gas in my little car. And the tank wasn't even all that empty.

watch this already

hillary clinton's speech on saturday

I just came across this. watch it.

from overheardinnewyork.com. you can't make these things up.

What Was Wrong With "Bob Dylan"?

Literature prof: Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz were two Mexican intellectuals who wrote essays concerning what it meant to be Mexican. Can anyone name some equivalent American intellectuals who were concerned with what it means to be American?
Student #1: Steven Spielberg?
Student #2: J. K. Rowling?
Student #3: Bob Dylan?
Student #4: C. S. Lewis?
Student #5: Stephen king?
[silence]

--Fordham University Classroom

Overheard by: [Embarrassed] to be an American

nov. 20, 1925 - june 6, 1968

From the Robert F. Kennedy entry on Wikipedia:

Senator [Ted] Kennedy concluded his eulogy, paraphrasing his deceased brother Robert by quoting George Bernard Shaw:

"Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'"

barack obama's victory speech in st. paul, minnesota, june 4 2008

To watch, first turn off the music player in the right hand margin below.

yes, things are changing

On January 27 Dan was laughing at me.

I am an idealistic person. I like to think about how things could be. That's necessary if you want to achieve change. Otherwise you don't know where you are going.

But to achieve change you also need to see clearly how things really are.

Realism and idealism in a healthy balance, right?

America has nominated an African American as a candidate for president. There is racism in this country, but there is also hope.

sometimes it's nice to read non-american views

Short and to the point from The Telegraph (UK).

contrasts

Ing reminded me:

Some years ago, before the new San Jose City Hall was built, on my way to teach I would step over homeless people morning and night. In the evenings, they would get ready for the night, making their 'beds' using old sheets that they put down on the pavement, or on the steps of overfilled shelters and churches. In the mornings, still on their makeshift beds, they would have breakfast and get ready for the day. I especially remember a woman braiding her daughter's hair on the sidewalk. It was such a familiar scene, made public by circumstance. Just like Ing, I would try not to step on the sheets, or look directly at the people. I didn't want to invade their privacy.

Then I would drive 20 minutes down the street and teach at the private university. There the groundskeepers are in the habit of wrapping grass clippings in large sheets of burlap, leaving bundles all across the lawns before coming back to pick them up.

And I used to think to myself that those sheets of burlap were in better condition than the sheets used by the homeless people in downtown San Jose.

what I learned from television

Favorite episode of my favorite radio show.

what now?

So the question is whether Hillary Clinton has been up against sexism. If she is where is because she is a woman. Looking at the polls it seems Barack Obama has had to fight racism more than Hillary Clinton has had to fight sexism. But it's also a question of what the establishment thinks. And Mrs Clinton's argument would be that the establishment prefers a male candidate.

To her that means that we should let the white working class voters decide - the ones who would never vote for someone of color. We should disregard the process and instead let the bigots straighten out the law makers.

more baking

Today I made Lemon Bars. Should have upped the lemony content, though. Other than that, success.

I am just going to come right out and say it

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a really crappy movie. Harrison Ford is a hundred years old and I am not even going to go into the stupid stuff they want to have you believe. Stay away.

today's favorite word: nimble

clematis

I saw joan rivers on the view today. this is funny too.

the problem with cell phones: you speak the truth into them.

I was having lunch today and my phone rang. I picked it up because I was by myself and people around me didn't look as if they cared. It was Dan. He asked what I was doing. I told him I was having lunch. He asked what I was eating. I told him "fake sushi."

Which was true, technically, since I was having mass produced sushi off a plastic tray. It was good because I was hungry, but it wasn't very good. It was supposed to be eel, but it tasted mostly of bland rice.

At least I was sitting by the window ways away from the counter. That makes me feel better.

mercy

now I want a lemon tree

I had a private lesson once on how to make the perfect Lemon Meringue Pie. The mom of one of my friends did a step by step demonstration. We made her, after she had let it slip that in her youth she had won pie baking contests arranged by either The 4H or The Future Farmers of America, I don't remember which.

The pie indeed came out wonderful. Her secret trick: a perfect seal between the meringue top and the crust.

Seems like that seal happened all on its own there on the pie I made today. Lemons came from Kathy (thanks Kathy), and the recipe from here. I used more juice and less water, though, because those home grown and flagrant lemons were also the juiciest.

I am a little slow on the ball, but I think I have figured out how to show you a picasa slideshow

just because it's almost raining today

To play, first turn off the music player in the right side margin.

that's the actual flower there

that bougainvillea again

there sure are times when you want to reel those words back into your mouth

I don't know about Hillary Clinton and her remarks the other day about staying in the race through June, comparing the race she is in with the one in 1968, when Robert Kennedy was shot in the month of June.

All I know is that today, as I heard her speak from Puerto Rico on CNN, she sounds deflated. Her spark is gone.

small, blue

sweep

I am watching pbs. pet peeves edition.

(Self portrait by Pablo Picasso from 1907. He wouldn't like this either.)

On Antiques Roadshow just now, to explain the setting of a Picasso painting, someone said: "July 14th, Bastille Day, is sort of the French version of our Fourth of July."

That struck me as good example of lazy everyday ethnocentrism. Instead of explaining the holiday on its own terms (which wouldn't take much, it's enough to say that it commemorates the French revolution) it is explained as a French version of an American one.

This irritates me because it makes the world smaller, as it makes us only talk about things that can be compared to things that we already know. And it makes us diminish things, because we will focus on the aspects that resemble something we already know, and leave the rest aside.

And it breads misunderstanding, because we will jump to conclusions. I bet there are people who now think the French had to fight the English for their independence. For instance.

this guy changed my life

David Roche, inspiration.

quesy

I just felt a little sick to my stomach thinking of the possibility of Bill Clinton back in the White House via his wife's possible vice presidency. And that surprised me, because when Bill Clinton was still in the White House doing things that made other people sick to their stomachs, I couldn't care less.

Not that I think it will happen. But it's weird to realize how drastically Bill Clinton's image has changed over the past few months.

oz

For those of us who love Australia (hi Robyn).

the mouse was good, but the rest of them... blah

If you're thinking of watching The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, I would simply suggest Ironman instead.

Right. And you'll get Terrence Howard too.

mayka says

Mayka says she wasn't going to get married until the same rights had been extended to gay people.

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