This book is effing amazing. It pays all due respect to Austen, and still manages to be hilarious. LOVE.
Well, I don't eat it anymore, but that doesn't mean I don't think that meat isn't yummy...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 2:30PM What, you thought maybe I'd talk about the Pilgrims and the Indians? About succotash and funny hats? Puh-leeze. That's so 17th century.
Instead, I'd like to mention that this will be my first Thanksgiving without bird, pig or cow. I'm actually really looking forward to it.
What are you looking forward to this Thanksgiving?
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 11:00AM When Carly sent me an IM at work that read something like, "Will you please go see New Moon with me? Please? PLEASE? PPPPPLLEEEEEEAAAASSSSSSSSEEEEEEE?????????????????" I thought maybe she wanted someone to go see this new atrocity "film" with her. And though my heart and brain protested, "Really? Are you sure? We're pretty certain we will either cease to function or just become stupid if you make us go," I thought it could be a good opportunity to a) help a friend out and b) gather some awesome, snarky fodder for the ole blog.
And boy, was I right.
Monday, November 23, 2009 at 11:00AM Bringing Up Baby is a fantastic Rom Com from 1938 starring Katherine Hepburn and the ever-handsome Cary Grant. The film has it all: silly characters, a case of mistaken leopard identity (the "Baby" in the movie), and a funny dog whose bone burying habits cause mayhem. Sometimes films from back in the day can be a tad slow or wearisome, but Bringing Up Baby is quick, with plenty of physical comedy and witty banter throughout. Here are a couple of my favorite scenes:
Sing the cat off the roof.
Cary Grant looking hot in a skimpy robe.
Of course, being the late 1930's, the style does not disappoint. Hepburn looks so tiny with her cinched waist and flowing gowns. It's so glamourous, and yet the clothes have an air of comfort or breeziness about them. Here's my take on Bringing Up Baby.
Have you ever seen Bringing Up Baby? What's your favorite old movie?
Check out all the Rom-Com: Fashion Edition posts in the archive!
Monday, November 23, 2009 at 9:00AM 
I'm glad I'm at that certain age where...
What about you? Finish this sentence: "I'm glad I'm at that certain age where..."
Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 10:05PM New entry up on Bare Words. I found this in one of my old Google Doc entries. Apparently, I had just been to the doctor and was feeling a little bitter...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 11:00AM What's your favorite romantic novel? And I ain't talkin' Harlequin Romances, where they plow each other's gardens and she touches his turgid member. I mean like, the great love stories of all time in book form.
I love Jane Eyre. I love her quiet love, the way she sees the goodness in Rochester, even when he's a blustering idiot. An oldie but a goodie.
I also love The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken. It's about a librarian who develops a soft spot (love, even?) for the town's giant. It's so beautifully written, you can't tell where the lines between frienship and love blur.
I actually also loved The Time Traveler's Wife (book, not movie). I love that it's really a story about her disguised as a story about him. Hmmm...methinks I need a re-read.
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 9:00AM 
Today on the Secret Society of List Addicts, I list five products I NEED in life. Okay, well, not need in the Maslow sense, but NEED in the completely non-needing-but-really-prefer way.
Look out for some TMI.
Head on over and check it out!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 1:30PM 
I don't really get the whole Twilight movement. I read the books, and Meyers'-abuse-of-the-thesaurus aside, I thought the story on it's basest level was somewhat entertaining, but really? NO.
So, when I discovered that Professor Beej is hosting an Anti-Twilight week this week, you JUST KNOW I couldn't pass up that opportunity. So head on over to check out my guest post entitled Dear Twilight: No, Really, YOU Hang Up. I wrote less about Team Edward or Team Jacob and more about how in real life, one of the characters is completely un-dateable.
I think I made my true feelings clear...what do you think?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 12:30PM I am always amazed by all the ridiculously smart people on the interwebz, and when I stumbled upon The Tell-Tale Blog, I was floored yet again by Alex. She has the ability to meld the cerebral with the practical, and I always come away from her posts feeling a little bit smarter. Today's guest post is no exception. Read up, comment, then visit her blog!
About Alex: I am a fashion-loving scientist with a knack for photography and a passion for blogging. Somewhat of a wanderer in nature, I’ve spent the first 18 years of my life in Romania then I went to Lyon (France) for university. After four years in beautiful France and one in the UK, I came to Montreal where I’m doing my PhD. I have no idea (or better said, I refuse to make the mental effort to come up with a reason) why I started blogging, but if I stopped, I know I would miss it dearly. Blogging is constantly fueling my passion for photography. And taking pictures fuels my desire to share them with the world.
In 1780s Charles Augustin Coulomb, a guy who liked to use the old noodle, came up with a formula for the force of attraction or repulsion between electric charges. This theory of his later became known as Coulomb’s law and it basically says that “likes repel” and “opposites attract”.
Now, while I completely agree with Monsieur Coulomb on this matter as long as we’re sticking to the tremendously fascinating field of Electromagnetism, I profoundly disagree with those that extrapolate this finding to the ever more complex area of relationships.
I’m no expert by any stretch of the imagination, but from what life has taught me so far, “likes attract” is more the type of motto one should go by when seeking a significant other.
Some may say that we seek someone who would complement our personality, someone who fills the gaps so that together we form this karmic, tantric, [insert another Indian/Buddhist term here], perfect whole. But you know what (and I’m afraid you saw this coming)? I don’t think that’s entirely true.
Sure, the occasional “good girl” will fall for a “bad boy” or vice versa, an introvert will fall for an extrovert, an Opera-lover will fall for a Tupac-lover, but really, that’s just the “falling” part of “falling in love”. Anyone can make the “falling” work. That’s easy. Gravity does most of the work (okay, uncalled for geek joke). The “love” part and its endurance are the hard ones to keep alive.
Couples need glue to remain a couple. And that glue is all the stuff that the two have in common. It’s watching 500 Days of Summer AND Terminator together, it’s laughing at the same jokes in The Office, it’s shaking their respective booties when they hear one of those really bad songs on the radio; it’s screaming “that was awesome!” in unison after having just watched Star Trek; it’s preferring to stay in on a Saturday night and tell stories from their childhood than go out clubbing; it’s enjoying a walk and an icecream together; it’s doing crazy, unusual stuff that defines and unites them.
Look at it this way: what’s the point of doing something you like if you can’t share the pleasure of it with someone else? Someone who knows that your obsession with baby elephants is not dorky or annoying but actually sweet and endearing, the same someone who knows that sometimes you just have to go outside and run like crazy not because you ARE crazy, but because it’s the only way you can clear your head.
Hollywood is filling our heads with ideas of very improbable love stories and is trying to make us believe they would actually work in the real world. Well, I beg to differ, Hollywood. Obviously this makes finding “the one for you” even harder. He/she has to be not only cute and sweet, funny and smart, but also possess all those qualities that make him/her the one “tailored” especially for you. But there are 6 billion people out there. Chances are you WILL find someone who loves baby elephants as much as you do.
Thanks, Alex...I couldn't agree more. Check out the cute couple at The Tell-Tale Blog!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 11:00AM 
I started a new position at work, and I'm officially beat. Between learning more systems, moving offices and learning a new office dynamic, I am soooo looking forward to my mini vacation that I'll be taking around Thanksgiving.
So here's a few thoughts for your Tuesday. Feel free to add your own random thoughts in the comments.
-I had to smack a guy in the face this weekend. Seriously. I've never had to haul away and slap someone before, and while the situation was pretty awful, it felt good to (attempt) to give a person the what-for.
-I have a sick man in the house. Everybody take cover.
-I dunno if you read Michael Ian Black's blog at all, but he wrote a fascinating article on Megan Fox. Really.
-After hanging out with my boyfriend's parents and his dad's best friend since fifth grade this weekend, it makes me wonder who I'll be in contact with in forty years. I hope my list is long.
-I don't like decorating for Christmas, but CB2 kind of makes me want to.
-Am I too old for a jean skirt?
-I need a new book to read...any suggestions?
What's going on with you guys?