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Burnett has worked with Matthew Morrison before in the Disney remake of "Once Upon a Mattress". We're not the only ones who like this show, kids. Creator Ryan Murphy recently received a mix tape CD with a hand-written note from Sir Paul McCartney asking if they'd like to use some of his songs. I suspect they would like that.

New boyfriend for Kurt? http://www.towleroad.com/2010/07/is-this-kurt-hummels-new-boyfriend-on-glee.html Chris Colfer must be absolutely peeing himself.

Agree, if only for the Guest appearance categories. Guest Actress in a Drama includes Sissy Spacek, Shirley Jones, Lily Tomlin, and Ann Margaret. Quite a horse race in this category too! It's shaping up to be a night of divas. What's not to like?

Technically, it's for Guest Appearance. Chenowith is competing with Jane Lynch for her appearance on "Two and a Half Men", both Tina Fey and Betty White for hosting SNL, Kathryn Joosten for "Desperate Housewives", Elaine Stritch for "30 Rock", and Christine Baransky for some show I've never seen. That's a whopper of a category!

Perhaps not. His performance in "Me and Orson Welles" wasn't blasted and he has a couple of other dramatic roles in movies coming up. He declined the remake of "Footloose" specifically to avoid being typecast as the pretty boy in musicals. Seems to know which end is up.

Good to see you back in the water as well, FoS!

Thanks for posting this. It's better quality video than we normally get from the era. Subject matter aside, the nerd in me always wakes up when I see this kind of footage and realize the singer is dragging around a wire attached to that microphone. It's kinda like seeing an old movie and watching someone drag around a phone attached to a wire. I lived that era. I sat through a number of concerts where the singer wrangled a wire the whole time and I didn't think anything of it at the time. Today it just seems so ... so ... retro.

They're doing something right. The Samsung BluRay player I bought about six months ago has Blockbuster on-demand (via broadband) built in. I've never tried it because the machine also has Netflix on-demand and I already had a Netflix account. Of course, now I'll be stuck with this hardware that has an obsolete service built in (that I never used anyway). :o

I paid $2.84 in Ventura County, CA last week (and was delighted to see it down that far).

Tiger's wife needs to take a song cue from Liza Minnelli: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEoCw5ysY3g

I've had similar support experiences with Dell in the last week so I feel your pain. At one point he wanted me to reboot my WiFi router to see if the computer could then find its wifi card until I pointed out the other computers using the router were fine and I didn't want to knock them off line. That computer was returned to the store. Twice. The first time it worked fine in the store. I've done tech support so I can appreciate the mind-reading act these guys are attempting but I'd appreciate it a lot more if they'd apply a little LOGIC from time to time. It sounds like he was trying to get you to do someting in the BIOS setup initially, where F10 *might* have had meaning. Don't know. They're different on each computer. The 2nd suggestion is flat-out pointless. (And the BIOS fiddling only has meaning if the BIOS setup has some sort of video diagnostic. Most don't.) If this is a stand-alone monitor, take it to Staples or Best Buy and have them plug it into another computer to see whether the dead spot is your video card or the monitor itself. That is the end of the testing that you can do yourself. If it's bothersome enough, you need to turn the thing over to a repair technician. There is no software setting anywhere. There is nothing the user can do about dead spots on a monitor.

I've been known to toss a salad....

You'll get the hang of this posting thing one of these days. }(

He's a friendly guy, too. If he ever did decide to escort he'd probably be tremendously popular. He's a pretty good top too, for what it's worth. He wasn't used that way often because after one look at his ass people forgot he even had a penis. But it's in the 9" range.

Last time I talked to him he swore he'd never escort. Shortly after that he was listed with David Forest, but that was pretty brief. Last I heard he'd retired from adult to a quiet life with his wife and child. Is he back?

Saw a news broadcast from a gas station in Burbank this morning. The sign said $3.69 for regular. It surprises me it's so high in Palm Springs. When I've been down there it has always been cheaper than in LA.

>I think that if there were enough interest or who ever runs >the bus system introduced good service some might take it. >Course socal is such a fickle and upitty crowd (why I haven't >been down in over a year) it might take a work of G-d to get >them to use their cars less or $20 a gallon which is what I >would charge for gas. In areas where transit exists in LA, it is quite heavily used. It is just being built up VERY slowly.

>Yes, it can be done, IF you just want to go from point A to >point B and back again. But the scenario I described is what >realistically our life in the 21st century is like. I know a housewife in Houston who starts her day working on clients' websites at the local coffee shop, swings by the grocery and dry cleaner on her way home after various PTA/Scout/whatever meetings, walks in the door with a laptop bag over her shoulder and grocery bags in one hand and dry cleaning in the other. Her husband is always amazed when she gets home. All of this while scooting around town on her Vespa. (She is still an attorney as well and manages to dispatch those responsibilities in an unflappable manner in her daily activities.) Is she more of a man than you are or just better at living life in a world she intends to leave to her kids? }(

>It just takes a little planning and it can be done for most. I'll agree that it can be done, but not that it can be done for most. ;-) The reason I was able to do it was because I was living in areas with great transit. (DC, NYC, and Chicago) Here, I'd have to walk 2 miles just to catch a bus, and that would only take me to a central "hub" where I could then catch another bus out to another destination, or a train downtown. (Completely unworkable since I don't *go* downtown.) Some areas just don't have decent transit. Having said that, many people *think* their area doesn't have decent transit because it's easier to hop in the car. You'd be surprised how many people around the US have told me there is no shuttle service at their local airport, but there really is. They never looked for it. It's there a lot of the time if you look for it. But not always.

I lived without a car for 15 years and it started in DC. In DC, there were enough transit options even 20 years ago that you only really needed a car if you were going somewhere in the flung suburbs. (And usually when I was going there, others were going too and I could hitch rides.) I was amazed to pay only $2.69 in Phoenix a month ago. I was not amazed to pay $3.45 when I got home. $4.00/gal in the LA area won't surprise me. We've been inching towards that for the last 2 years. It will probably be $5.00/gal within a year. Fortunately, I don't use much gas.

I was never a Marky Mark fan because rap/hip-hop is just not my cuppa -- but I sure did enjoy his flashing his funky bits. }( As an actor, he's grown impressively. I also love those 3 Ronstadt/Riddle albums, and I applaud her for goading him out of retirement to do them. AND for listening to his guidance to get the style right instead of howling through them.

Went down for me. Last time I bought gas it was $3.54. I paid $3.45 on Friday.

I paid $3.51 in Agoura Hills, CA (rural Los Angeles county) last Friday. That means it's even higher in LA-proper. On the TODAY show this morning, they interviewed the President of Shell. I got the feeling he was expecting a softball interview, but Meredith went for the jugular. (I'm starting to like that broad!) He flopped around like a beached fish, clearly unprepared to answer questions about record profits when people are clearly feeling the pinch of prices at the pump. He seemed surprised to be asked about it, which I suppose partly explains why there is a problem in the first place.

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