Happy Hols, Kara!

Thanks for putting this out there and giving me the heads up, Corey!

How often to shower is not my conundrum, but rather how often to wash my hair.

Gwenda, Just a quick, OT note: thank you for this blog as resource. When I don't know what I want to read next, I can always come here and find a reliable recommendation. Thanks!

Thanks for the link, Gwenda. I just started year 7 of da nobble, and it's not budging. I really needed to hear that.

dashboard sucks. there's nothing on it but a list of comments from the blogs. i don't go to typepad to see my comments listed together from multiple blogs, i go to each BLOG to see my comments so they're in context with the post and the previous comments. DUH. comments are a conversation. i can't find anything else on my dashboard and there wasn't an obvious button or link to take me to a place where i could add stuff to my dashboard. FAIL. the "weblogs" page on the old layout is what i consider a dashboard. i can see all my blogs there, along with the number of posts and comments, and can click from there to anywhere i want to go in each blog. i do not treat my blogs as all one entity, they are each separate, and need to be treated that way on the dashboard. now, if you want to add MORE info to the old dashboard layout, great. and i'm paying for this, so please don't try to sell me stuff.

Gwenda, can you point to some of the criticism of the Grossman article? I know that I hated the article because it was simplistic and wrong, not because the sentiment behind it was something I disagree with. The contemporary "literary" novel isn't boring because it's difficult, it's difficult because it's boring. Lit fic writers aren't really using the modernist arsenal anymore. It's been done. They're just telling the same, boring, urban professional epiphany story (and yes, it's a genre) over and over. These books are very easy to read, they're just hard to finish because they're so deathly dull. And his whole thing about Cormac McCarthy? Hello? Since when wasn't western a genre? McCarthy's whole career has been about literarifying genre; that's why he's both feted and popular. With THE ROAD he just switched genres. Grumble grumble ... sorry to take this out on you, but I would have had to register to comment on the wsj article.

Everything's fine over here. Hope you're well!

ah, late congrats then.

Congratulations, Gwenda! Or should I call you "master?" Quick pet pique patrol: you wrote "peak" instead of "peek."

i have to say, this isn't good joss whedon. this is generic joss whedon. the first five eps were so bad i couldn't believe it was a joss whedon show. and now that we're getting into more depth ... well, after watching "the wire" and the BSG finale, i can't say that this is depth at all, just backwash backstory. gotta say: anything even slightly more interesting will knock this one off my schedule. oh, and it *barely* passes the bechdel test. i'm not sure doctor's visits and conversations about how much they like applesauce count.

the lack of a demon-and-monster-infested world and a tongue-in-cheek premise really shows how thin whedon's single-episode-arc ideas are. most of these eps have been silly so far. if next week's ep isn't great, i might give up on it.

really! i'm surprised. i'm still watching it out of loyalty but i think it's taken a turn for the hokey. and the relationship between danny and the captain? ugh!

congratulations, MASTER!