The Dot blog was odd for me, because my grandma's name is Dorothea/Dot, she was a teenager during WWII, and she lived on the south side of Chicago. She looks a bit different from this Dot, but now I have to go pester my Dot for her papers and whatnot. Yes. Thanks for pointing it out, ita.

I'm very simple when it comes to my libation needs - filtered water from my Brita, poured into one of my polycarbonate bottles (work, home, and gym). I have a pitcher of water that has cucumber and lemon in it for the days I need a little more flavor. Other than that, if it ain't alcoholic, I generally don't drink it.

I am re-shorn! And tomorrow, I will be colored. Er. Yeah.

Gateway to other historic blogs--LA style.

paperdol, if I were a bigger person I'd not be seething jealous right now. And if I were a smaller person, I'd have just bought the damned shoes already.

Special FX: Superman Returns (which has a dead link to a "making of" video, sadly) Flying video! FX Milestones (probably too arcane for Mac, but cool for me)

ita, that site I told you about before has those docs listed here.

But on the front page of their site, it says,

***PLEASE BE ADVISED***

From July 9th through July 18th PLEASE do not place any orders or send us any emails on our site. You can use it to browse but if you would like to place an order or have a question, please call the shop at the numbers listed below. Thank You!

They don't have mary janes, though, Tom, and that's what I'm jonesing for. Girly, yet skullsmashing.

You know...like me.

That's a fine set of furniture, Robin!

I drink bottled water because the tap water in NJ tastes like death. Also because I don't want to drink fluoride, which is why the Brita filter isn't good enough.

My best friend sent me a Gil Hibben knife for my birthday. That girl gets me.

Does anyone else feel like the unhippest person in the universe when in a hair salon? Among other things, the lighting does no favors for my complexion. And there I am staring in a big old mirror, looking like a pasty-faced idiot.

My teeth started falling apart when I left the land of flouridation. Now, that time also corresponded to a hormone shift and lactose intolerance, so it may not be related. However, I now have to use a special sooperflouridated toothpaste.

msbelle, I'd go looking for "making of" documentaries. And greenscreen with wires and stuff.

Oh, Emily, my sistah in unhipness. I was saying this very thing today, attempting to justify why I haven't gotten my hair cut yet. The lighting wipes out my features and leaves my face a pasty blur, and there are mirrors everywhere so I can't forget for a moment how fat I really am, and I'm always sitting next to some young hottie in tight jeans complaining because her hair is too thick (here, honey, let me rip some of it out for you!). And everyone else looks the same in the mirror as they do really, so I must really look like THAT, and, I'll just stay home. Forever.

Going to get her hair done is supposed to make a woman feel better.