In "Open Letter to the Great Comic Actor, Luke Wilson"

Put me in the "painful to read" camp. People seriously still talk like that?

In "Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey"

Whiplash is awesome! You can even buy his t-shirts (which folks always comment on). GO WHIPLASH!

In "Curious George: Proctology."

Soapbox: Mom's currently in the hospital with colon cancer. Get your colonscopies!

In "Curious, George: UNLURK!"

At first, I tried to just make comments. Now I only comment when I have something meaningful to say (which is why I haven't made any comments in a long time...). I wish that the year was 1975 and I was 25 years old. And I was living in an a-frame cabin on a lake in Canada. And Dan Haggerty was my boyfriend.

In "Curious George: Neighbors Always Have Horrible Taste?"

How funny. During the summer, I frequently open up my slider door and my loudish music tends to filter out. I always (delusionally) think, "I bet my neighbors are thankful I have such good taste in music."

In "The *Art Parade."

Yeah, I'm not seeing any FF logo either. Help us out.

In "Vice Presidential debate."

I'm with Bernockle. It does seem strange to keep swapping out the poll. I loaded it repeatedly during the day and it was "influence VP decision" question, not the "who won" question. Now, it's back to "who won". But then I'm becoming increasingly paranoid as we approach Nov 2.

In "Curious George - Dog = Bob?"

Nickdanger: That's what *I* thought. Such a great scene!

In "<strike>Can't.</strike>"

Cannabis

In "Aet of Japanese Postcards:"

wow -- spent the past 45 minutes looking these. really nice. thx.

In "On the MonkeyShelf: The Book"

Thinking of Magritte by Kate Sterns. Or Was by Geoff Ryman.

In "Curious, George; Where are we?"

Hey Caution Live Frogs ~ Manhattan? That's where my dad and all of his family are from. Don't run across that many Manhattanites.

Seattle, Washington.

In "Down Syndrome Dolls"

These dolls always kind of weirded me out, too. I (maybe) can understand that certain people might like a regular preemie doll. But these are SPECIAL collector editions ones. That just seems a little strange to me.

In "What If You Could Wear A New Face Every Day?"

Not familiar with Cindy Sherman, so I'll look her up next. But check this out ... AnthonyGoicolea (NSFW!, unless you want co-workers thinking you're a pedophile). The amazing thing is that each person in the photo is the artist (and yes, he's really an adult!). I was pretty blown away the first time I saw these. Very strange and unsettling! From the artist statement, "...I act out childhood incidents such as fight scenes, first kisses, and deranged play dates. These works are simultaneously rooted in nostalgia and science fiction."

In ""

I think Seattle might be pretty lax about excusing yourself from Jury Duty. I called the day before I was to report once and said I wouldn't be able to do it. She replied that it wasn't optional. I explained, "Yeah, well...it's not really gonna work out for me this time..." That was it. (My excuse was starting a new job the next day -- so it was pretty legitimate -- but still surprising.) I've done it once before that -- it wasn't fun, but I did feel sort of good afterwards.

In ""

Yeah, exactly Medusa.

57% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category. Hmm...born Montanan, raised in Spokane (and now in Seattle). Figured I'd score differently. What they really need on this test is "roof", "lawyer" and "nuclear" [ugh!]

In "The merchandising messiah"

Dizzy: I'm only speaking for myself here (and agree with your points). I think the general public is very used to tacky merchandising tie-ins. Maybe it's because there's not a Jesus "blockbuster" very often (what was the last one? Last Tempation of Christ?), but for whatever preconceived notions I have, I would expect a religious movie to be above that. I thought Mel Gibson's original intent in making this movie wasn't to create a hit movie (though, it clearly will be now), but rather to tell a story that's very personal and important to him. I think that message gets diluted when you start selling coffee cups. After viewing this website, the whole thing feels exploitive. People are making money off of the death of Christ and that seems...unusual to me. (Yes, I'm naive!) :-)

CellarFloor: Agreed. Biblical accuracy would've have been more precise wording than 'historical' accuracy. Since I don't believe in any of it, I guess I shouldn't even use the term "accurate", but I was trying to be respectful those who do believe. And while I'm pretty sure I won't see the movie, I do think it's kind of interesting that he's using those languages.

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