Season 2 of THE TUDORS...coming soon!

Well not that soon, but it will be out on DVD on December 30th...like they just knew that would be perfect timing for us to watch! Huzzah!

Wish you were here Charles!

Esmee and I had brunch at Busboys and Poets and then took in some modern art at the Hirschhorn.

Ed wrote a song.

Listen to it. Guess this happened after I left...http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/09/ed-harris-sings.html

Screaming body double doll?

It is truly odd what one can find on NPR... I just wish there was a sound effect to go with the article.

Nachtmare

Although my initial impression of Rachel Getting Married was that Anne Hathaway was horrendously miscast, I found this clip to be rather amusing. In particular, the definition of nachtmare i.e. " a nightmare so bad it is in German." See the clip here. I do think we should add it to our lexicon.

616 votes

that's how many votes Sarah Palin won to become mayor of Wasilla. Are you kidding me? You need more votes than that to become student council president at our high school. Read more about her "trail of bad blood" from our commie friends at the Washington Post. Also, idiotic Jane Swift likes her. Another point against her. I HATE stupid women who cannot control their own reproduction and who cannot successfully juggle career and family. They make all the rest of us look bad. Poor Shrillary must be seething.

all this turmoil on wall street....

makes me nervous. i think charles has the right idea by keeping all of her money in her mattress.

Noooo!!!

RIP David Foster Wallace

And of course if you want to understand my life

You should probably read this blog: http://www.stuffhollywoodassistantslike.com/. Admittedly I have no idea who writes this, but I kinda feel like i must know them since they are so damn accurate on everything about assistant life (we love diet coke! I frequently end up at a lame night at El Guapo!) all the random stuff I'm always babbling about to you guys...this blog explains it. Its also kind of funny. Or maybe just funny to me. But! It will help you understand your sis so please read! xoxo

I just want to make sure...

...you gals appreciate gofugyourself enough, cause it really is the funniest blog I read. so amazing. check it out: http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/

License plates are out of control

I keep meaning to write about all the INSANE vanity plates i have been seeing lately. I feel like there have been a lot. By far the worst offender was one today which said, IAMAZEU. Yes, it said I amaze u. Dear god.

A tempting trailer

So F and I went to see Vicky Cristina Barcelona last weekend (quite funny, not enough Penelope Cruz -- she was terrific. hilarious. bombastic. excellent as a crazy artiste). and F felt that of all the trailers we watched, the most interesting was Flash of Genius! thought i would pass it along.

One Massachusetts man's opinion of Palin

I think if I were asked to discuss Sarah Palin, I would probably just vomit on my shoes, or perhaps, I would speak in tongues. Luckily, Matt Damon is more thoughtful and coherent. Check it out.

La Mere

Does she really sign her emails "Blonde Mother Theresa"???? I think I died a little when I saw that. Oh GOD.

Par Avion

Dodie, I bought tickets!
Here's the scoop: I'll be arriving at Dulles at about 10:30 am on Saturday the 20th, and leaving at about 8 on Friday the 26th. Do I need to figure out public transportation or will you be around?

Oh Pacey...

Just can't escape Massachusetts-set, elsewhere-filmed tv shows. At least this one is suitably snowy. Watched Fringe tonight. Wonderfully cheesy in an x-filesish kinda way. La Mere loved it, but was horribly frustrated because the vcr didn't record her beloved double feature of Prisonbreak and Sarah Connor last night. At least Fringe covered her weekly gun fights and explosions fix, even if she'll have to wait until next week to see "that little robot girl".

C thinks this is the most awesome thing ever

Researchers discovered that cattle have a good sense of direction and tend to point in a northerly direction.
It has long been observed that cows appear to have a talent for weather forecasting and are able to predict when rain is on the way, but until now their navigational abilities have been largely ignored.
Their innate ability to find north is believed to be a relic from the days when their wild ancestors needed an accurate sense of direction to migrate across the plains of Africa, Asia and Europe.
Dr Sabine Begall and colleagues from the University of Duisburg-Essen looked at thousands of images of cattle on Google Earth in Britain, Ireland, India and the USA. They also studied 3,000 deer in the Czech Republic. The deer tended to face north when resting or grazing.

Read more at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2623809/Cows-point-north-thanks-to-in-built-compasses.html

a well crafted trailer

Sometimes I think I like trailers better than movies. This trailer is particularly good. And I was very amused that at end you get Lance's name in GIANT letters. Kind of awesome (esp cause he is such a sweet guy, I know I've blabbed to you guys about how awesome he is, but I don't expect you to remember.) http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/milk/large.html

Just like a junkie...

...La Mere rented and sat through the entire Sweeney Todd even though she:
A.) Doesn't like gore
B.) Dislikes all Sondheim and
C.) Hates knives to the point where she forbids anything sharper than a butter knife in the house.

What's next-21 Jump Street? I mean, she rented Before Night Falls last week!

Yay for free books!

Snagged the promo copy of this at work. Was skeptical at first, but have since been completely sucked in!
What do you want to bet that Laura (who you just know is a total bookworm) has had her assistant sneak her a copy wrapped in the dust jacket of a Jan Karon novel.
Dodie, if you don't get a chance to buy this in the next few weeks I'll bring you my copy when I come visit. Which, btw, we need to talk about so I can figure things out and buy plane tickets. Can't wait!

Oh Yes. GG is back!!!!

DId you ladies watch? It was pretty good, although from a storyline standpoint, it didn't really move forward. It pretty much just returned us to where we were with the characters at the beginning of the season finale. Except Blair and Chuck, which let's face it, is the real reason we watch! (um and how awesome is this pic that I found?)

Also, I wish I had a Swiss bank account

I wish I had some sort of crazy swiss account where I just had all kinds of money and passports in a lockbox. Would be totally awesome. First Bourne kind of rocks. Loves it!

Just say yes to the huge sum of money Matt wants to pay you Franka!! Say yes! Also awesome, is the he puts his stuff in that convenient strange backpack trash bag thingy. I think I need to go on a spy adventure right about now.

Bourne

Rewatching the first Bourne movie, and I forgot just how awesome Matt's giant poofy parka is! I'm going to try and put up pics from my trip to the villa later...