The #3 most emailed article on The New York Times website is "You Try to Live on 500K in This Town." "This Town" refers to Manhattan. I wonder if people are emailing it to others because they empathize or out of schaudenfraude or just plain mocking. Obama has set the maximum salary for banking executives who accepted government bailout money at $ ( Read more... )

If you want to leave an anonymous comment, that's cool. I'm just really curious about people's grocery buying habits since I've become a lot more conscious of spending re: food.

General area you live in:
How many people you shop for:
Are you a Vegan, Vegetarian, or Omnivore?
Do you generally get name or store brands?
Do you focus on organic food?
How ( Read more... )

In the same theme of this post, are there any movies that are deal breakers for you? Ones you'd be embarrassed about a possible lover seeing on your shelf?

Does anybody remember an MTV commercial, circa 2000-2002, that had two people, one male and one female, sitting on a carpeted floor and making fun of MTV? The woman named some hipsterish indie band like The Decemberists and said that she "put their new song on (her) ipod even though it's lame makes planes". She also said mockingly, "I'm Gideon Yago ( Read more... )

Where do you draw the lines between sci-fi, horror and fantasy? Can you really separate them? Do some overlap and some not? I'm thinking of a few writers in particular. Ray Bradbury, HP Lovecraft, Stephen King.

EDIT: Also, superhero comics/tv/movies.

According to Salon, the Sexiest Men Alive are (ones I've heard of are in italics):

2006

Stephen Colbert
Sacha Baron Cohen
Alton Brown
Neil Patrick Harris
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Sufjan Stevens
Richard Dawkins
James Blake
Bruce Springsteen
Mark Ruffalo
Noah Baumbach
Alan Rickman (A WORLD OF YES)
Jon Stewart

2007

Jon Hamm
John Amaechi
Owen Wilson
Cate ( Read more... )

I realized after talking to
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