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Back when Kyle M was on Sex and the City, there's an episode where, upset and angry, he's playing a solo game of midnight tennis in his (McDouglal) plaid boxers. His body was lean and sweaty and yummy. That was 17 years ago, and his body looks...exactly the same. I was almost convinced of photoshopping. It's crazy how good he looks. No wonder Janey-E was squirming in her chair looking at him. Richard Horne is a terrifying fuck and I need someone to murder him really soon.

Bad boys DON'T make good long term boyfriends. They're drama kings, attentions whores and energy sucks. Piz, or someone like him, was absolutely the best choice of significant other for Veronica. However, I am a diehard LOVE 'shipper. (and I'm old and OVER 50). Can't help it, don't try. The chemistry between KB and JD is scorching.

I mentioned A Simple Favor awhile back...I did like it, it's twisty fun. I didn't know about a film...I see that now Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively are attached. I can see Blake as the 'perfect' wife, but Anna seems way too savvy and smart to play the mommy-blogger, who is bascially a ninny. I also see Paul Feig is now attached as director...so hopefully that means this will be a dark comedy, which, really, it is. Finished Commonwealth, I just loved it. Patchett uses language like a paintbrush, she's a true artist, and I'm a sucker for interwoven, interconnected, multi-character sagas. Her style reminds me of Gail Godwin, another fave. Now reading Homework by Margaret Livesey, and just want to be done with it. I hate pretty much everyone in this book, and the protagonist is unbearably annoying, the kind of woman who, when her boyfriend compliments her, says things like "But I'm so plain looking!" Ugh, shut up. The writing is fine enough and I do want to see where the story winds up, but I'm beginnning to skim and scan to get through it.

Cool, thanks. We just might have to go. he's so pretty. My significant other is just a couple years older than JJ (i'm 10+ years older than both) so I don't really feel squicky about crushing on him, except when I recall him as that adorable little boy on GH. I actually think, tho I understood why Scarlett and Gunnar would find it initially a bad idea, that the crib idea for the commercial is a little bit genius. A way to mitigate the 'scandal' of the baby not being Gunnar's in a really open way, to invite the fans into the enlightenment that Gunnar is still in her life even tho he's not the baby daddy. But it's Scarlett, so I also don't care. She needs meds and counseling and to stay out of the spotlight, she is the biggest saddo/emo around, and she's boring on top of it.

Jeffrey Nordling has made a small career out of playing slimy, punchable exes--he played one on Zwick and Herskovitz's Once and Again--but I kind of love him for it. Deacon is so...touching as the grieving widower. I haven't seen her in too many things but I thought I liked her..but so far, she IS kind of annoying and pointless on here. I know!! I was so excited. baha. I didn't actually think they'd have Avery cheat, but it was nice to see him cut loose, and then realize for sure that nope, he's a devoted guy now. Loved his scene with Deacon too. Pretty, pretty men. Jonathan Jackson is coming to my town soon to perform in a little club...has anyone ever been to one of his shows? My BFF is all, like, 'we have to go see Lucky!!'....I know nothing about his music, aside from Nashville...is is religious based or anything? Cuz I'm not going to that. Who is his fanbase? Teens, or a lotta middleaged chicks like me who remember when he was a beautiful preteen on General Hospital and feel only moderately squicky to be crushing on him now?

No Freddie Highmore, no Vera Farmiga, no Mary Elizabeth Winstead, no Michael McKean, no acting noms for American Gods. Stupid Emmys.

I adore Banks, but McKean not getting a nomination is ridiculous. Stupid Emmys. I still hope Bob O wins, tho.

Oh, i missed it! Good for him and his character's terrible, gross teeth. But seriously, how did MEW not get nominated??

http://deadline.com/2017/07/2017-emmy-nominations-list-all-nominees-1202127795/ Carrie Coon and Ewan nominated, but no Micheal Stuhlbarg, no David Thewlis, and most especially egregious, IMO, no Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

I had to go look up who Brian Tyree Henry was, and who he played here. I remember him, but I am a little stumped as to why he got nominated for this role. I don't really think Chrissy deserves it either. Not sure about Milo, tho I certainly do like him. Sterling and RCJ, for sure. Fine with McRaney too, cuz he's so reliably good. So is Denis O'Hare, but really, how much did he have to DO here? But I think all these noms are overkill, seriously. There are so many better programs out there.

i loved it. i'm a zoe kazan fan even tho she tends a little toward Manic Pixie Dreamgirl-dom, and she's very charming here. Romano and Hunter stole the movie...i was surprisingly moved by Romano, who I never really watched in much of anything. And Hunter is crazy good. Loved the awkwardness of Kumail's first meeting with them turning into a sweet bond. Really nice little film.

I liked whatshername's--Jessie?--- final song, Learning How to Lose You. She and Rachel Bilson are both a little young for Deacon--it'd be nice if one of his future romantic prospect was actually closer to 50 than 30, as Connie Britton was, as he is--but I sure get why, as Bilson's character said, he'd be catnip to a lot of women. Yay, Avery. Tho this is going to send Juliette on a jealousy fueled rage, and she'll probably torpedo their relationship by drugging or fucking around yet again. Then again...I used to be really pro Juliette/Avery, but he really deserves better. Yeah, still don't care about Scarlett at all. Wondering if Budweiser is going to run that Will commercial in real time. Might as well. He also deserves better than Zach. I don't even know what that whole 'hey, okay, i'll break up with this guy now that you've caught me even tho we've been together for months now' thing is supposed to be about, except that Zach is creepy.

Finished this, and yeah, I agree. I liked it, still, but it's like she threw EVERYTHING in there...just kept piling on shocks and twists and EVERYONE was the EVIL and yeah...it came off like an extended 3 part arc of a Criminal Minds episode or something, which I stopped watching cuz it was just all so elaborately horrible and dark. And I'm a girl whose fave show and biggest crush is a cannibal. I'll try another by her cuz I like her writing style, but with reservations. Just began Ann Patchett's Commonwealth. I find her writing reliably wonderful and evocative, and I'm loving so far.

Liza had to read the definition off Wikipedia or something. She looked it up cuz she didn't really know. She articulated somebody else's words. It was all ridiculous. I have NO real prob with Josh and Kelsey.

It's ridiculous. Maybe it's not stupid to not know what Black Mirror is but these people who are in the publishing industry in New York City don't know what a meme is? My 83 old father from Kentucky knows what a fucking meme is. Ugh, this show. Also, Lisa doesn't look any better or younger with the Heidi 'do than carrie Bradshaw did.

I didn't ever feel this was going for a specific demographic either. (I love dogs but have never been owned by one, but by many, many cats) I liked the cool/weird workplace and the co workers, and I adore Jason. When he showed up for Nan to search for Martin and ran to her in a huge hug, I lost it a little. No matter their future, or if they're a good COUPLE, those two get each other and love each other. I find the dynamic very sweet. I also want to know more about Nan's obviously fucked up family. I want to meet her mom that ran off with the dentist, and I want to know what her relationship with her never before mentioned (I think) sister is. Dammit.

Also UO, but tho I have loved many Kate Atkinson books and expected to be profoundly moved by Life After Life, I just couldn't wait for it be over. I will not be reading the sequel. Finished A Simple Favor. Man, these chicks make Amy Dunne seem like a choir girl. It was a fast read, mostly fun. Now reading Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter. It is DARK, but also fast and twisty.

Oh, i'm so sorry to hear about your cat, that's tragic. I had a cat named Sting too! I also knew, of course, Martin wouldn't really hurt Pepper, but I was still anxious too, and the line about her being so small and scared broke my heart a little. I love Martin, and all dogs, but I'm a cat person at heart. I said the same thing...post the pics and tell everyone else to post their own too. And then they did. I'm still hoping we get more. I want to know more about Nan's family, her mom and her sister, and what happened to make them all fall so far apart. I want Martin and Pepper to actually eventually become friends. I want more history on Nan and Jason, and more future. I've lost so many shows I loved and they didn't come back (still holding out irrational amounts of hope for Hannibal), but maybe we'll get lucky with this one. I sure hope so.

It's increasingly harder to believe that anyone would actually believe Liza was in her 20s. I think Charles is handsome, and I'd be interested in Hemingway/literary memorabilia too, but he's....stodgy and kind of boring. Of course, I think ultimately Liza is inherently that as well, so I guess they're a good match. Also, I'm older than Liza and Maggie, and for them to not have a CLUE what 'black mirror' is was stupid. I mean, I'm guessing it's supposed to be yet one more thing 'old folks' aren't hip enuf to know about, right? I totally do think Josh and Kelsey will hook up, and it will be mostly all about Liza, at first, but they actually do have some chemistry. And I don't think Liza has much of a leg to stand on if she gets jealous. The rape joke was not funny, tho the line read of 'whoops' by the actress who plays Lauren admittedly was.

I'm over Hallie too. She's all church girl sanctimonious, but she's going around bemoaning her 'breakup' with a married guy. Whatever. And what's with Juliette going, literally from one scene to the next, from calling her 'baby girl' and having her back to calling her out for being a scheming mantrap to her face in the next. Juliette is impulsive and erratic but she's too old and supposedly too smart to show her hand like that. Avery really IS a saint for dealing with her.

I'm just so sad. Both of the last episodes were sweet and sad and poignant. (was I the only one hoping Keith Carradine would show up as Nan's dad?). I still want to know a lot more about her family dynamics, but sadly, guess we won't get to. I loved Jason showing up for her at the end, to help her search for Martin. I'm really gonna miss this show.

I've read, and still occasionally reread, Gail Godwin's 'A Mother and Two Daughters' and 'A southern family'. and Nancy Thayer's 'three women by the water's edge' many times. I've read and reread To Kill a Mockingbird, In cold blood, Marjorie Morningstar, little women, gone with the wind and east of eden so many times I can recite most of them chapter n verse, but am uncertain that i'll ever reread them again, tho possibly. I was obsessed with a writer named Mary Stolz when I was teen. tho most of her stuff (and she was very prolific) was written long before I was a teenager, it all still resonated with me, and best of all, she wrote about SMART kids. Introverted, introspective, well read girls, like I was. I loved her stuff so much a few years ago I tracked down every single title of her YA (she also wrote children's books) I could find on ebay and bought them all, and reread them all. Pray Love, Remember was/is my fave, and also Ready or Not and its sequel The Day and the Way we Met. Also loved The Seagulls Woke Me and To Tell Your Love and, oh, just all of them. There's a book called The Lynmara Legacy by Catherine Gaskin that for some reason I return to again and again. Never read anything else by her, just loved that one. Also Stephen Dobyns' Church of Dead Girls. Stephen King's The Stand. Rebecca Du Maurier's Rebecca. Anne Rivers Siddons Peachtree Road. I have so much new stuff I want to read, and huge pile of books waiting to be read, that I don't reread as much as I used to. But it IS like digging into a bowl of your fave ice cream.

I'm wild about the show, but haven't read the book. I'm a diehard, ride or die Bryan Fuller fan, tho, so perhaps that's the explanation. Or, yeah. People just like different things.

Finished The Things We Wish Were True by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen. It was okay. Readable but unmemorable. Also read All The Missing Girls by Megan Miranda. The 'twist' of the book being told backwards is pretty gimmicky and kind of unnecessary, but it IS one of those compulsively readable books that keeps you guessing. Also: Arcadia by Lauren Groff. So lyrical and poetic, the language so gorgeous, the story so sad and the characters indelible...so why didn't I LOVE it? I don't know. I liked it. I admired it. I wish I could write like her. I cried at the end. And yet...there's something, some barrier, something that kept me a little removed. I realized that I had the same reaction to her Fates and Furies. She's a brilliant, evocative writer...and yet....I don't know. If I had her gift of language, perhaps I could express it, but I don't, so... Now reading Darcey Bell's A Simple Favor. so far: intriguing.

Lucas Neff has posted a few sad photos on instagram about this..he's obviously quite upset, but still holding out hope that some other network will pick it up. (and sweetly, I noticed garrett dillahunt, his dad on 'raising hope', offering condolences to him over it)