Lovecat

Awwwwwww, yeah, Dante took down that obnoxious flower lady!

Hammer a nail into the wall, too high for the dog to get to. Make a practice of ALWAYS hanging the spatula on it. If you're not going to teach the dog not to take your things, you need to teach yourself to prevent him from getting your things.

Chef Eric Adjepong will be opening a restaurant in Washington, DC called Elmina, focusing on Ghanaian and West African cuisine. He's also the new co-host of the Pack Your Knives podcast, after Kevin Arnovitz's departure. I thought the restaurant was to open sometime this month, but can't find anything concrete.

The dog with the phantom pregnancy made me miss my dearly-departed Lovey cat. When she was rescued, she was sent for spaying and it was discovered that she was already pregnant. The litter was aborted (don't @ me, this was before I adopted her!) and when she came to live with me I learned very quickly to always put my clean socks on the bottom of the laundry basket, otherwise I'd find them at the food dish, at the water dish, in the litter box, or "sleeping" happily on my pillow. She'd take one gently by the "neck" and carry it around with her, purring up a storm. She's been gone for, oh, 15 years or so, and I still put my paired socks in the laundry basket first, with all of the other folded laundry on top. I miss her <3

To quote Toby Ziegler from The West Wing..."Babies come with hats." I about fell over when I saw how grown up Imogen Clawson (the actress who plays Jenny) is now! She and Rachel Shenton are remarkably well cast as sisters.

I had the same brain glitch when I watched yesterday. Morgan said something like "...he lives in the Palisades..." and the little doomsayer in my head replied "...maybe not anymore..." I've been thinking for days about all of the different impacts the fires are going to have (too many to list here, my brain has been busy) and the loss of scenic shooting locations is one on a very long list (though very low in importance compared to so much else!).

I did indeed! In fact, I turned to my husband and said that if there was ever any doubt Amanda Seyfried was from Allentown, using the phrase "Bieber bus" would most certainly eliminate it. Most people would just say "I took the bus to New York," but a resident of the Lehigh Valley will always specify whether they took Bieber (RIP) or TransBridge (now the only option). My family used to take the Bieber bus to Philadelphia quite often. When I was younger I was prone to carsickness, and barfed in a Bieber bus lavatory on one of those trips :/

I'm from the Lehigh Valley, the area of Pennsylvania where Allentown is located, so I got a kick out of all of the local references in Amanda Seyfried's story, including the photo of her in her Trexler Middle School band uniform :) Her family does have some deep roots in this area. I play the piccolo in a local community band that traces its roots back to a Civil War era band whose members mustered as musicians for the official band of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 47th Regiment, so I watched Amanda's bandsman ancestor's story with great interest. I couldn't recall the Regiment our band "ancestors" served while I was watching the episode, but I was almost expecting Amanda's ancestor to have been one of them--until I realized he was from the Pittsburgh area, where he returned once his service concluded. Good stories. Amanda Seyfried was quite thoughtful, and Lea Salonga is just a delight.

I've seen this behavior several times. I call it "the professional widow/er" phenomenon, where both spouses are famous/semi-famous, one passes tragically, and that's what the remaining spouse winds up primarily being known for (see also: Rory Fleek and Amanda Kloots). I know that it's largely driven by the media, and fans sure do love the story of a strong widow/er who goes on with life despite the loss of their One True Love. I also know people all grieve differently, and that a girl/guy's gotta earn a buck...but I've always found it a bit icky. I could've happily lived the rest of my life without knowing what tWitch had hidden in his closet. Have some decency, lady.

Coincidentally I was watching A Few Good Men last week and while perusing the IMDB trivia section for the film was reminded of this little anecdote: An unnamed executive gave Aaron Sorkin a note: "If Tom Cruise and Demi Moore aren't going to sleep with each other, why is Demi Moore a woman?" He responded, "I said the obvious answer: Women have purposes other than to sleep with Tom Cruise." Demi's win was a huge surprise, and her speech was indeed excellent. When she left the stage and the cameras showed a wide shot of the audience, I wondered aloud why they were not on their feet. I've never been the biggest Demi Moore fan in the room, but she deserved a standing O last night, in my opinion.

As someone who has had great difficulty looking up an old boyfriend...may I suggest "Mike Tyson"?

Scroll up; I'm quite sure it's posted here somewhere.

I don't even remember the name of the person who won the most recent season, and that aired LAST NIGHT. But yes, whoever Joey is, he's probably a twit.

This is finally up on Netflix now! My favorite part was Jürgen making the womp-womp noises with his trombone. Oh, and Paul's "tiny piccolo" in the cold open, because I myself play the tiny piccolo :)

Yasuda's wounds didn't help clarify the timeline, either. So 6 weeks after the accident she still had a scabby healing cut on her forehead, but her scar from MAJOR ABDOMINAL SURGERY was completely healed and starting to fade? Oy.