Browncoat

Instaget FJ for me tonight. And I'm kind of glad Joel didn't win. His antics annoyed me. I also got the TS of eclipse/sunrise, Bolshoi, diving, lion, Dalai Lama, Boxer rebellion, obverse, and Vitamin K. It made me sad that no one knew Elsa was a lion. Born Free was probably the first movie I ever cried at. I think I was about six or seven when I saw it.

I loved Ken's comment to the guy about wanting the tattoo of his name to be on the guy's dominant arm.

Instaget FJ for me tonight. So much so that I questioned it for the entire 30 seconds, but couldn't come up with anything else McConaughey was known for saying. The only TS I got was drag. Oh, wait, that was a missed DD, so I guess I didn't get any TS. I feel like I should have gotten Spiro Agnew, but I forgot and/or didn't understand the category. This is why you need to start at the top, people!

I work for the government. We're lucky to get any raise at all. Ever.

I'm going to go with Pterry the Pterodactyl.

Catching up from last night -- I waffled between hurricane and tornado, but decided in the end on tornado because they are less predictable. Hurricanes have not always been as predictable as they are now (read "Isaac's Storm" about the Galveston hurricane in 1900), but they don't generally seem to come out of nowhere like tornadoes sometimes still do. The only TS I got were Flushing and saber dance. Late to the party for the name discussion, but I have what was once a very very common name. There were five of us in my high school class of 42 people, and we all had to go by FirstName LastName. There were just not enough nicknames to go around. And while mugs and keychains and whatnot with my name existed, they were usually sold out.

Every time I read "Manson" in a post here, my mind immediately goes to Charles. I am old.

I still have that jingle in my head! I'm glad I recorded this episode -- I'm definitely going to watch at least the end of it again.

That's why I guessed Gallipoli. My even guessing that was lucky due to lack of knowledge. That was about the only place I could think of that was related to WWI. Sometimes ignorance is a plus. I also got the TS of aerie, UHF, Bethesda, alpha, and breeder.

Nooo!!! His character had one of my favorite lines from The Big Chill -- one I quote often -- "Sometimes you just have to let art flow over you."

Quoting myself to recommend this book. It was really well done.

3/5 this week.

I would like to thank Sean Penn for my instaget of FJ tonight. I honestly have no idea if I'd heard of Harvey Milk prior to that movie. I also got the TS of honey crisp, Frida Kahlo (a wild guess), The Time Machine, aberrant, and Androcles.

I really want to see Cyrano, but none of the theaters around here have deigned to show it. I have seen Dinklage's face in the previews, though, and agree, @Spartan Girl, that it is a masterpiece. He is a brilliant actor.

If you don't want to watch all the other seasons, at least watch seasons 1-5. There are some others that are really good, but I can't remember the numbers off the top of my head.

That was great.

I randomly guessed for FJ, based on the year and the location, and was gobsmacked when my guess was correct. Hey, whatever works, right? The only TS I got was measles. I also knew both "perforated states".

I had no idea for FJ tonight, and would not have come up with the correct response in a million years. However, I did get quite a few TS, including credenza, Jane, Buzz Aldrin, Genesis, Nevada, Grandma Moses, Gizmo, and speech.

The best Star Trek movie!

Super-duper, extra crispy instaget FJ for me tonight. I barely started reading the clue before I had the correct response. I did pre-guess Hamilton, though. So many TS! I got seal, Bahamas, natural, "cruelest month", noble gases, "man, my son", and Johnson. For the Wagner Ring Cycle, I said Wagner operas -- can I get a ruling from the judges on that one? It probably would have prompted a BMS, and I'm not sure I would have gotten to Ring Cycle in time.

I just started "We Are Not Like Them", written by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza -- a Black woman and a White woman. It matters, because the two main characters are a Black Woman and a White woman who have been best friends since they were about 5, and chapters alternate between them. It starts out with the shooting of a Black child by White police, and explores the connections between the two women and their reactions/responses to the shooting. I'm only a couple of chapters in, but it's really interesting so far.

I like frosting, but there is an ideal cake-to-frosting ratio. For me, that is a lot less frosting than Tina had on those cupcakes.

I have even heard Realtors mispronounce it! And it drives me almost as batty as nu-cu-lar. Jinx, @peacheslatour!

I *should* have gotten pig in a poke, having recently watched European Vacation.

I only got half of FJ tonight, too, and the same half that Margaret got. TS/missed DD I got include mirepoix, gypsum, and wyvern. I said Mecca for that one -- would that have counted, or did they need the Grand Mosque? Not that it mattered in the end, but Clay should have been counted wrong for Daylight Savings Time. It's Daylight Saving Time.