I like getting letters with handwritten addresses on the evelopes. It's a lot harder to mistake for junkmail. It doesn't matter how pretty the handwriting is--just as long as the post office can make it out, I'm good.

Lee for validation, I got them for my then-14 y.o and then-9 y.o last year and they were a big hit with both genders (plus my 40-something brother loved his set too!)

Thanks Dawn!

Lee, that's a dangerous site. So many tempting things: the Seven Deadly Sins Wristbands, "What Would a Pirate Do?" Spin Folder, Jane Austen action figures...

Seriously.

If we're gonna do a patent, I want the Mood Coffee Machine. Instead of recommendations based on the weather, you put your finger on a pad and it dispenses a beverage based on your mood.

Can it have a setting for "do I have to choke a bitch"?

So, I just watched last night's Without A Trace, and it was all about resonances in Viv's life, but what about Martin? Why is my memory of the characters' histories better than that of the writers?

Cindy, I can unconfuse you!

Really? I'm surprised because Jensen Ackles was a beautiful child on Days of Our Lives. He was beautiful the way (very young Elijah Wood was beautiful, although, I think Elijah's beauty, except for his eyes, has mostly faded, where Ackles has gotten even more striking).

But first I have to agree, and add that by Dark Angel, he was crossing from beautiful to attractive (they're not the same thing in my world, and younger, he kind of fell into Uncanny Valley turf for me), and that in SPN, he's hit Dear Goodness, How is He So HOT? levels of appeal. It's the crinkles around the eyes and that lower lip thing he does. I can't explain beyond that.

Sorry, Plei. I meant Not!Dean. I confuse myself.

ita meant Paddywack (thank you, whichever person first started calling Jared Padalecki that, for those of us who find spelling it hard), who played Dean on Gilmore Girls, and now plays Sam on SPN. It can get pretty Who's On First.

::cough::Jessehasmeblocked::cough::

Do not! That's what I get for skimming. Or, I was distracted by the stuff about kissing.

That's what happens -- I mention kissing, people start thinking about kissing me, and it all goes downhill from there....

But first I have to agree, and add that by Dark Angel, he was crossing from beautiful to attractive (they're not the same thing in my world, and younger, he kind of fell into Uncanny Valley turf for me), and that in SPN, he's hit Dear Goodness, How is He So HOT? levels of appeal. It's the crinkles around the eyes and that lower lip thing he does. I can't explain beyond that.

He is utterly striking. I don't find myself attracted to him at all (except that I like to look at beautiful people), I think because he'll always be that beautiful child in my brain. I completely understand how/why he breaks other people, though. It's not like I don't get it. I do. I just seem sort of immune to it.

Then again, I still haven't watched SPN. Yet. I keep TiVoing it, but never getting a chance to watch.

ita meant Paddywack (thank you, whichever person first started calling Jared Padalecki that, for those of us who find spelling it hard), who played Dean on Gilmore Girls, and now plays Sam on SPN. It can get pretty Who's On First.

What got me more confused is that I thought Nutty said it, and then I scrolled back, and confirmed Nutty said something related, then scrolled back again, because I saw Nutty quoting back what I thought I'd confirmed Nutty said, then ita (who was not Nutty, the last time I checked) said she said the thing she said, and my brain died.

But not from the hotness of the Ackles.

Then again, I still haven't watched SPN. Yet. I keep TiVoing it, but never getting a chance to watch.

He shorts out my brain in it. Unfrozen Caveman Fangirl is frightened and confused by this.

I had to watch the freaking pilot three times before I could say anything even remotely smart about it, and even then, I've mostly been sticking to talking about Sam. (Current word count on SPN pilot talk document? 1377. Current count on Yuletide fic? Umm. Way less than that. I'm cat vacuuming hard here.)

Can it have a setting for "do I have to choke a bitch"?

Which mean it sucks to be you, Lee.

BACON !

Kissing doesn't surprise me (though in Ancient China it was considered gross and kind of cannibalistic). You can have a lot of your cultural assumptions reset once you've read the personals in San Francisco. Somebody somewhere likes licking, nibbling or kissing some part of somebody else. Orality goes askew on a daily basis and some of it just stuck around as What The Cool Kids Do.

I'm unsurprised that Buffistas are so in touch with their inner Spock that they're all "Highly Illogical" about human behavior, but c'mon! Humans act on their emotions primarily and rationalize it afterwards. (I was just reading a Wall Street Journal article about this effect when the book Cognitive Dissonance was published in the fifities and how it was a huge influence on advertising and pyschology.)

"What keeps mankind alive? Bestial acts!" - Kurt Weil

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