Nosferatu is suspiciously absent!

I'm sick of these water birth moms anyway. I don't know if I'm particularly sensitive to all of these stories of moms who breastfeed for two years, but I welcome anything that pokes fun at it. Slings aren't nearly as irritating as the recent NYT article about home births, though.

My mom didn't breastfeed me and I still graduated college, bitches.

The only scene I thought was uncomfortably melodramatic was the one with Adama and Tigh. But beyond that I thought the episode was a solid look at people who have lost every shred of hope. Earth was THE salvation for these people, the justification for every action and reason to exist. With that gone they have absolutely nothing. So calling their reactions melodramatic seems a bit..unfair. Should they have poignant speeches? No. Words are meager approximates of their feelings.

And I thought the Dee thing was well done. She isn't so minor as you say she is either. Her relationship with Billy was well-documented, same with Lee. She isn't a Gaeta.

So for a mid-season premiere, I liked it. They revealed the final cylon, so at least they got rid of that as a carrot. We know what happened on earth. But we still have the issues of Starbuck, Ellen's role, Cavill and his gang, and where the fleet is going. These final episodes are turning out to be a depressing exercise of existentialism, which is just fine.

I've been watching Idol for a few years and Adam is such an anomaly-- his performances are wildly impressive, but once you step back and realize he's shrieking like Axl Rose, you know no one in the show's audience will probably like his songs. You sing along to Kelly Clarkson, not death metal.

I'm pretty sensitive to realistic images of violence, but my mother is opposed to all images of suffering and would make us change the channel always. But this is her reasoning: she's a nurse and she's constantly surrounded by human suffering. So she watches old movies and musicals and reruns of Friends. And Daily Show.

So I think there's an empathy thing here. People like us see violence and react so strongly to it because we empathize. Our lives are tragic enough on their own not to require such reminders.

It had barely anything to do with him being gay. Are tweens, the one who will actually buy the albums, interested in listening to shrieking? Not really.

And I expected the backlash. They crowned Adam weeks ago. I liked Adam but even I was sick of the constant adoration -- he had some pretty crap performances and they still slathered him with praise.

Kris is marketable. Adam is someone you think is a god when you're kind of drunk at a bar.

...that you people think he fell off the wagon because his response isn't up to your standards of advice columns.

go back to ask amy, gosh.

I am a 20-something woman, a college grad with a salaried position. When I was a teenager, I had parties at the house full of people I didn’t know (and who stole every single garden decoration). I had sex. I smoked pot. I drank here and there. I lied to my parents about where I was going. I brought home guys after my parents went to bed.

I didn’t flunk out and I didn’t get pregnant. But my dad, surely knowing teenage girls are sometimes up to no good, treated me with such trepidation and suspicion that we barely spoke for three years. Our relationship is still strained.

These are things teenagers do. If you disagree, you’re delusional. Do not destroy your relationship with your daughter in an attempt to protect her from things she will do regardless. It’s called college.

for people that actually like music and don't use it as a rubric to hate even more people, thriller is a great album. go ahead and be smug with your pretentiousness, but actual music lovers know there's a place for pop music, and his was great.

is better.

http://whythefuckdoyouhaveakid.com/

this reminds of that essay, in which the writer muses on the ways telling the truth is pretty much the least moral thing to do.

same with secrets. we weigh other people down with our problems and expect them to carry them around. if it was truly as upsetting as a cancer diagnosis, the LW probably needed to talk to someone about it, for the sake of her own sanity. the sister is in the empowered position of being able to share her secret with who she deems suitable (and therefore getting the empathy she needs), but the LW is stuck with the awful information by herself.

there is relief in the unconcealing of the thing.

To whoever asked if another phone can use Skype over wireless, well, my old Blackberry could use Google Voice over the ACTUAL NETWORK.

When I got the first little message that said I could not download an app because it was over their network limit, I about died. Just died. It's allegedly an unlimited data plan, but they've managed to limit it with the device itself. It's infuriating.

Also, it doesn't have full access to the internet. You can't install Flash, which prevents you from using any web apps, which I suppose is the point because Apple is all about native apps.

And where is the tethering? I was able to tether my Blackberry to the point of being able to play a MMORPG while tethered.

What about that playlist thing too? You can't pick and choose songs. It's a gimped ipod. That was the big selling feature for me, an ipod in my phone! But it doesn't even work like an ipod, it's cruel and mean.

I'm totally disgusted I have 2 years left. If you think you're better off with an iPhone you are terribly misguided.