This will sound strange, but I'm so encouraged by this thread about purses! (And now I'm seeing that it's a members-only post, sorry.) The original poster asked some questions about buying purses: Do you get what you pay for when you buy a more expensive brand? What is a way to make sure the purse you want to buy is quality and will last?In the ( Read more... )

Watched Babel tonight. No other movie has stunned me like that since The Passion of the ChristI figured it would be a story of cultural differences and difficulties -- thus the title. Not entirely so. It was hard to decipher at first, but it helped when I picked up on the patterns and the rythyms. Here are three families, four actually, who are not ( Read more... )

This has to have been one of the more horrible nights of recent history. Horrible and unexpected. And yet, I daresay redeemable ( Read more... )