Huh.

I quoted the scene where he proposes to her in the rowboat on the lake as one of my favorite romantic scenes ever, for a YA blog doing a Valentine's Day feature. Everyone was appalled! I was surprised, to say the least, but apparently there's a huge contingent out there that thinks Jo should have accepted Laurie. Which is so very wrong, in my opinion.

Well, I always *wanted* Laurie and Jo, but rereading it on my kindle I wasn't disappointed by Laurie/Amy anymore. I would agree it would help if Bhaer had more of a personality.

omg, never encourage reply to all. NEVER.

I think, at age twelve, it was very hard to imagine Amy not being a Bratty Sister Who Gets Everything anymore in a way it isn't when you're 39.

I have read Alcott obsessively. My favorites are Little Women, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom and An Old-Fashioned Girl. I thought Laurie was all wrong for Jo, but the Jo-Laurie shippers are legion.

I thought Laurie was all wrong for Jo

Yes!

I love when Amy sits on Laurie's lap and says his nose is a comfort to her.

And I thought Professor Bhaer was charming in that awkward, scholarly, foreign way. I think once Jo loved him, I loved him.

My favorites are Little Women, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom and An Old-Fashioned Girl. I thought Laurie was all wrong for Jo, but the Jo-Laurie shippers are legion.

Little Women is my least favorite of those.

This means I have an excuse to buy a Pebble, right?

Yes. Yes it does.

Remember BigDog, the creepy-in-an-uncanny-valley-way four legged walking robot the US military is developing? Well, now they've given BigDog an arm and taught it to throw cinder blocks:

DARPA's robotic BigDog can now throw shit like it's nobody's business

I think this belongs in Good Stuff That May Presage the Robot Apocalypse Happened Today.

ita, do you drink the For Your Water or the For Your Cooking

Cooking, totally. I don't miss the sweet in the least. I can get that from my food (noms muffin more).