St. Claire

Y'know, I sort of wish the cover was just Jenkins, and that this one was used to accompany the article inside. I want Barry Jenkins to get his Oscar moment without anyone from La La Land standing next to him.

Yeah, but that's kind of along the lines of "I like strep throat more than norovirus."

I am thrilled with how many people are returning- I figured on Felicity Huffman, Regina King and Tim Hutton, but am thrilled to also see Connor Jessup and Benito Martinez. It also looks as though FH may be playing a character that I like more than in the first two seasons. I love her as an actress, but I didn't like Leslie or Barb at all (as in "they were unpleasant people, in my opinion" not "Felicity H did not play them in a compelling way").

I've seen that commercial and that never even struck me! I don't know if that is good (in that having single sex couples in commercials is just normal and appropriate) or bad (in that I'm not paying enough attention to progress).

In the annoying car commercial in which the dads drive their kids to a date at the movie theater in a snowstorm, the music has recently changed. I swear it used to be "To Make you Feel My Love," but the commercial aired a bunch of times the other night with new music. The music has not made me less irritated at the kids for not calling each other to cancel the date due to the weather.

Most of what you're going to see with that disclaimer is a dietary supplement- they are regulated like foods (not like drugs), so they cannot legally claim to treat, cure, or prevent disease, even if they can produce a boatload of anecdotal evidence showing the high correlation between the use of their products and the reduction of certain symptoms. I think the drugs used for treatment of fibromyalgia tend toward the "...believed to be caused..." language because there is still so much about the condition itself that isn't clearly understood. Is the pain caused by some malfunction of nerves? Or is there another cause? Best to use the weaselly language so that you don't contradict yourself later when more studies show more results.

My first real interactions/experience with hearing about the gay experience was when I was in college, 1990ish. I worked on campus doing sound and lighting stuff, and we have PFLAG conference on weekend for which I had to be on hand- I set up the microphones in the meeting rooms, be around if anyone was having problems with the A/V, etc. During a down moment in the hallway, one of the attendees was chatting with me, and he asked if I knew any gay people; he seemed satisfied with my answer of "I don't think so, but I can't be sure," (which I said because there are plenty of people I knew that may have just not told me). In the course of conversation, he noted that so many gay people of the time were bristling against the gay stereotypes, but that they really owed a lot to the leather boys and drag queens that they wanted to distance themselves from. It seems like a lifetime ago, now that I'm in an environment where the marriage pictures in our company newsletter have single-sex and mixed-sex couples and where the CEO flew a rainbow flag in front of our building after the Orlando shooting, but it really wasn't that long ago.

I would pay cash money to see this actually happen. Can you imagine the GIF potential? The super-slow-mo rewinds and replay, set to various pieces of music? Entertainment gold.

I agree- as a life-long East Coast person, I'd welcome the earlier start time. The Super Bowl starts at 6:30, why can't we get a 7 PM start for awards shows? I was DVR-ing to compensate for if I fell asleep on the couch (a fairly standard occurrence) and woke back up just about in time for Best Actor and Actress. As soon as I heard the Best Picture announcement, I started rewinding to watch the In Memorium before I went to bed, so I didn't know what was up until my husband asked me this morning about the mix up. I had to go to the recording to have any clue what he was talking about.

Come to think of it, I don't think we ever actually saw Charles Mahoney out in daylight. That's how he got released for Papa M's shooting- it happened while he was ensconced in his coffin. When I was trained, the instructor told us that it's impossible to perform successful CPR without breaking the breastbone; if you don't crack, you aren't getting enough power in the compressions to start the heart beating. So, the whole "I panicked because I heard a crack" was irritating to me. Somebody should have known better. (Unless I just had the most inept CPR instructor in the history of the world. If so, it's a good thing I've never used my training in the decade or so that this dude has been re-certifying me, and it's good that we are using a new vendor for our training.)

I didn't take it as being bitter and angry toward them- he followed up the "then they moved on with their lives and drank lattes" thing with the explanation of them feeling so guilty for being able to do so. The hardest choice that family made after however long of not being able to find her was to say that life would go on without her, even though they couldn't prove she was really gone. He never claimed that they weren't affected by her loss. When you move on from someone who has died, when you get to bury a body, you get to move on. If you bury an empty coffin and eventually move on, even years later, you've "given up." I saw the idea of Bad Dad donating the kidney coming from a mile away. I'm just glad that they didn't use this as a way to make him the hero; he had enough humanity to do this one good thing for his kid (who is abused physically and psychologically), but he needed to walk away and not use it as a way to ingratiate himself with his wife and son. Although the gushing from the mom about good people in the world was a bit heavy handed. The docs should just have said that another kidney match became available in the hospital, but that the identify needed to be kept secret. Donor families are allowed to make that decision, so it could very well have been a patient who died whose organ was donated. Although that could blow back up at them, since there is the potential for them to see each other during the hospital recovery- when my husband donated, there was the daily "slug line" of the donors doing their shuffle around the floor with their rolling IV poles, since they were required to get up and move around as part of their recovery.

I guess I haven't heard the devolution of the meaning - but for me, anyway, it still doesn't apply because I believe for most parents it wouldn't be a difficult choice. Scary and sad, maybe. But I think most of us would give up our lives to save our kids That's sort of my point- Sophie's Choice was about the complicated, no win, kind of choice she had to make to Sophie's wasn't a choice of save her child or save herself, which is a choice that every parent I know (myself included) will say is a painful-yet-clear one. But I've heard it used very often to just mean an emotionally-charge decision in which neither choice seems good. Tonight's woman had an emotionally wraught choice to make, but it is no way a "Sophie's choice" moment.

The phrase "Sophie's choice" has come to mean something similar to "a rock and a hard place" (i.e., a decision in which either choice is bad), which I think takes away from the intricate and meaningful plotline of the book and movie. But, like "Jekyll and Hyde," we've taken a literary nuance and turned it into a throw-away expression. I usually like Mary Stuart Masterson, but the Congresswoman annoys me. As does Bishop. So, all in all, I was fairly annoyed by much of this episode. My crochet project held my attention more thoroughly than the plot did.

Having him be a lawyer makes good narrative sense (not that I expect any plot in Grey's to actual *make sense*), esp if he's from a rich/prominent family. A guy like that could perfectly game the system, cast doubt on any accuser, and take advantage of every loophole. A friend of mine from HS left an emotionally abusive ex-husband, and his background as a lawyer allowed him to gum up the divorce process and continue to semi-stalk her for a loooong time.

I've always heard it as "toe," and assumed that this was just one of those drama llama children who always has some phantom ailment that requires cuddling or extra attention.

I love me some cashew milk (coconut milk and soy milk less so, although I am not actively opposed to either), but I don't think I've ever even considered putting them together.

According to Teen or Young Miss or whatever else crap I was reading when I was learning to shave, we are supposed to shave down the leg to avoid ingrown hairs. I never believed it, though, because the Daisy ("when you shave with Daisy, you go a little crazy!") and Clicker razor (which were way easier to hold, but rusted up in the blink of an eye) commercials showed ladies shaving from the ankle to the knee (but never their upper leg, whereas Neet and Nair showed me how to have fully smooth legs!) and now that I'm middle-aged, I've never met a woman who got an ingrown hair from shaving. Not saying it doesn't happen, just that I've never experienced it.

I'm not necessarily opposed to take out pizza for Valentine's Day (it's a workday, after all), but it's not even slightly romantic except in a "Honey, you just relax with a glass or 3 of wine and put your feet up and don't worry about a thing" sort of way). I don't get behind Domino's and their wedding registry, either.

I think hi-def is not friendly to many people. I sort of forget that he's almost as old as I am, so I should be way more forgiving of him having some wrinkles, but...dang. I was shocked at how he looked in Gone Girl after having Doogie Howser in my brain for so long.

At home, we call carbonated beverages "fizzy drinks," but in the general public, I use "soda." I know plenty of "pop" aficionados, but I don't think I've ever met someone in real life who uses the term "coke" for any carbonated bev, although I am aware that they exist.

And yet, Vick's had a whole campaign back in the day using actors who played doctors to sell their cough syrup. "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV!" And that's supposed to make me trust your recommendation, because...?

Exactly! Stay in side your own body frame- if your feet need to be more than shoulder width apart, you may have a priapism-like issue.

I guess we all put our own spin on things- I didn't think he was already in bed, just that he thought she should be. I put on my schlumpy clothes and settle down on the couch until after the late news, but if I hear my kids come into the kitchen, I would be inclined to go check on why they weren't in bed (especially since I know they'll be fussing at me the next morning when I wake them up for school.)

Was Just Between Friends the movie where she and Christine Lahti's character become friends and I loved Laura Petrie and Mary Richards, and I found MTM herself to be very lovely and down to earth (as much as one can determine that when seeing interviews and public appearances). I laughed like crazy when I saw her on a late night talk show (I think it was Letterman) and she told the host how she used to call DVD "Penis van Lesbian" behind the scenes. It was just so funny to hear from sweet, lovely Laura Petrie. But she had so much dramatic talent (Ordinary People, of course, but also her Tony-award nomination for Whose Life is it Anyway? and her ability to play the evil Sante Kimes in a TV movie). While playing one of those celebrity-name party games in which certain words can't be used as clues, and I imitating her "Ooooh..." followed up with "That's a clue, not just me being frustrated." My teammates immediately jumped in with "Laura Petrie! Mary Tyler Moore!"

It really was nice for Baker to have more than 10 words. The actress keeps her private life out of the spotlight, and I sort of like that her pregnancies get written into her character without being a huge thing- Abigail Hawk is pregnant, so Abigail Baker and her yet-unseen-TV husband also have a baby. When Sid presented the restaurant gift certificate to Frank, he said it was from "...me, Garrett and Abigail;" this may be first time I've heard anyone call her by her first name instead of just "Baker."