Comments | minervacat: [the radio is sucking my butt today, by the way.]

minervacat

[the radio is sucking my butt today, by the way.]

Feb 24, 2005 09:41

Thing 1: Dear Chicago Sun Times and also the Chicago Tribune: Sammy Sosa no longer plays in Chicago. Get him off your front back SPORTS pages RIGHT THIS MINUTE. Did you now get the memo? Chicago doesn't give a fuck anymore. If I wanted to read about how Sammy's doing in Baltimore, I'd read the bloody Baltimore Sun. No love, Min

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resmin February 24 2005, 17:45:27 UTC

1) Casey Brodsky, from Irreconcilable Differences- Drew Barrymore plays a kid who's parents were getting a horrendously awful divorce and she wanted to divorce them in turn. I think there was a scene with a zoo involving her picking out new parents, but that might have been just a dream.

2) Aerin, from The Hero and the Crown- Mainly due to the fact that I read this in the car with my dad on the way to the beach and then spent the whole weekend talking about the bits that I liked and why. Plus, twenty something years later (*freaks out*) I still love and adore her.

3) Julianne Potter, from My Best Friend's Wedding- I have that bet. Or I *had* that bet. Either way she was me and my friend S. was Dermot Mulroney.

4) Peter Pan- I was one of those kids that just never wanted to grow up. I was perfectly happy to remain a kid as long as I could.

5) Deputy Doug, from Dawson's Creek- Not for the gay sheriff in a small town bit, but for the line "Never lose the butterflies."

minervacat February 24 2005, 19:10:44 UTC

yeah, you're getting married, lady, you can't have that bet anymore.

but i know what you mean. i thought i was going to be her for a long, long time. <3333

g_m_s February 24 2005, 17:46:32 UTC

Levin - Anna Karenina
Dr. Rieux - The Plague
Bezdomny - Master and Margarita
George - Sunday in the Park wih George
The baby bird - Are You My Mother?

resmin February 24 2005, 18:59:53 UTC

I have never met anyone ever who's also read The Plague. I read it during my post-college 'I never read anything deep anymore and EW just isn't cutting it' phase. Wonderfully detailed and just a lovely book all around.

g_m_s February 24 2005, 20:03:44 UTC

It has been a while since I read it, and I am afraid to read it again for fear that I have built it up in my memory into something better than it was.

I doubt that is the case, but I still don't want to have over-hyped the book to myself.

Hey, I read Camus too! febrile February 25 2005, 00:59:18 UTC

And actually, have decided to re-read Brothers Karamazov because it deserves it, but am a little scared because that first reading was kinda sacred.

You, me, and the Russians. But hey, you speak some. And have been there. And, gack, *like* vodka.

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xayide79 February 24 2005, 17:47:29 UTC

1. Cassie Logan, Road to Memphis by Mildred Taylor.

I identified with Cassie in Taylor's earlier books, Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry and Let the Circle Be Unbroken. But I didn't get the OMG, that's me feeling until this book.

2. Trillian, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Because I could see myself making the exact same decisions.

3. Joey Lucas, West Wing

She's my favorite WW character ever. She's sharp and sassy and I want to grow up to be just like her.

4. Libby, Jimmy Neutron

Don't laugh. She's an awesome character.

5. Monica Wright, Love and Basketball

She just wants to live her life the way she wants to live it. She doesn't care about what she is supposed to do or be. And she has a weakness for Omar Epps.

minervacat February 24 2005, 21:54:52 UTC

i rewatched love and basketball a couple of weeks ago, and that is an excellent choice. she rocks pretty hard.

chiara607 February 24 2005, 17:58:14 UTC

Shyla Fox McCall -- Beach Music, Pat Conroy
Because we all have dragons, and sometimes they win, but we fight for as long as we can, and sometimes that's longer for some people than others.

CJ Cregg -- West Wing
Because, really, who doesn't want to be CJ?

Atticus Finch -- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Because he did what was right, even though it wasn't popular. And also because I had a crush on him for the longest time. :)

Clarissa Dalloway -- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Because you do what you have to do.

Viviane Joan Abbott Walker, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Because it's "chick lit," but I identify with the woman more than is probably healthy.

minervacat February 24 2005, 18:21:23 UTC

Viviane Joan Abbott Walker, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Because it's "chick lit," but I identify with the woman more than is probably healthy.

man, though, that lady knew how to live, though, didn't she? i really enjoy that novel, and i really enjoy vivi, though i identify more with sidda than vivi. but she knew how to have fun. that's something to aspire to.

also, i'm thrilled to see shyla fox mccall on your list, because beach music is one of my all-time favorite novels. ever. (though ledare, now, that's who i wanted to be. :D)

goovie February 24 2005, 17:58:54 UTC

1. harriet m. welsch, harriet the spy. i want to know EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING. i feel weird and naked without my notebook. i can't begin to count the number of times my writing has gotten me into trouble. and while i don't see the appeal of tomato sandwiches, i could totally go for some cake and milk right now.

2. abby from the truth about cats and dogs. i don't care what you think, i dig that movie. :) and abby is so very much what i was like in high school and college--all jealous and bitter and self-loathing and masking it with sarcasm. there's a scene, if you know the movie, where she and the guy have this phone conversation that goes on all night, and they take a bath together, and she plays the violin for him, and they read aloud, and then there's some phone sex that's actually handled really well...and i've had that conversation, lots of times, and it's amazing how well that was captured. hi. i'm a sap. i'll go over here now.

3. enid coleslaw, ghost world (the movie and the book). because i was always the one hanging back from ( ... )

swoon! amojojo February 24 2005, 21:24:57 UTC

I LOVE BETSY-TACY!!!! I can see the drawings when I close my eyes.

Re: swoon! goovie February 24 2005, 21:50:01 UTC

i just reread betsy's wedding. lovelovelove.

minervacat February 24 2005, 21:56:01 UTC

i re-read all the betsy-tacy books while i was at carleton; somehow i'd stopped reading them, when i was a kid, before betsy got to high school, and i discovered my senior year that there were all these other books that i'd never read, about characters i'd loved. it was a wonderful feeling.

and she's a totally wonderful choice for you. i can totally see that. :P

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