Today, my cousin Jim is going to be on Jeopardy! today at 3:30 Central Time (4:30 for the East-Coasters on my flist).  He's Louis's older brother and he's uber-professorial, so he'll probably do well.  Good luck, Jim!

And Jim is featured in this promo, and the answer to Alex's question is a big, resounding YES. 

Meet my cousin Louis:

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He's like my male counterpart, except far more fabulous, successful, and delightfully insane.

...And yes, he's like that in actual conversation.

...to everyone in the U. S. and Happy Thursday to everyone in other countries.  Eat, everybody, regardless of nationality!

I'm about to head off to my grandma's house, pecan and pumpkin pies in tow.  My brother marched in the local holiday parade today, but the commentators seriously would not shut up when they played, which they did not do during ( Read more... )

And I wish she was as cool as Maleficent, Ursula, or Lady Tremaine (Cinderella's stepmother).  She's not---she's my cousin Laura.  Will I go to hell for calling Laura a bitch?  She is.  I mean, she really is.  She's this tall, leggy, natural blonde who prizes materialism above everything else in this world and is never, ever happy with anything.  ( Read more... )