I heard from Alex the other day. I'm not sure why I chose then to reply to her e-mail, maybe because I've been on my reconnect kick and missed her still. Also...she was a little more energetic in her last message; it made me feel a bit more like she wasn't still mad at me. I had admitted I missed her, which is true. But deep down inside I still ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what it is about this show, be it the angst of the main character or the sensibilities echoed by my anachronistic parents. I see the world they inhabited but new and sleek, lacking the tackiness of the 70's. A battered lamp I'd find in their basement is new and shiny in that show. There's wood, warm and real, held over from the 1950's ( Read more... )