and bud will call this team the cardmopolitans

[throughadoor]

i'm watching the mets/cardinals game. game seven in a best-of-four series, tied at 1-1 through six innings. in the top of the sixth inning, the mets center fielder robbed the cardinals of a two-run homer with an insane over the wall snow cone catch and in the bottom of the sixth inning, the cardinals got out of a bases loaded/one out jam. which

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[throughadoor]

wow, struck out looking with the bases loaded! no matter who you were rooting for, that was a pretty fucking good game of baseball. though, i imagine that poor mets fans feel differently.

[callmesandy]

I was so rooting for the Mets at that point, especially later when the darn cameras kept cutting to the sad sad sad fans. It's not like they're Yankee fans, you know?

[musesfool]

It's not like they're Yankee fans, you know?

We're really really not! We probably dislike the Yankees fans (with certain exemptions) as much as anyone!

[traveller]

washing my hair with baking soda and apple cider vinegar

i'll bite. whyfor?

[throughadoor]

stubbleglitter recently linked to this post about going shampoo-free, and mentioned it was working well for her usually very curly, frizzy hair. since i never met a way to obsess more intently over my hair that i didn't like, i decided to try it. it's working pretty well, after less than a week, my hair already feels softer and slightly less frizzy.

[traveller]

ah hah!

as of today i am using that new sunsilk stuff, you know, the one with the annoying mario cantone voiceover ad, because in the last year i have stripped my hair of all its dignity -- i had gone almost three years without coloring and then i just. i don't know. is there such a thing as a hairdye bender, and if so, can it last nine months? point being, it's super dry and breaking all the time, and my lovely organic nature's gate seemed to be doing more harm than good. so.

so once i grow it out for another three years and it's not all Dead anymore, i'll give this recipe a try. :)

[annakovsky]

Studio 60 - man. I thought this week was a lot better than some other weeks, but the Christian thing is still off the wall. I say that as a Christian who was raised super evangelical in the south - Harriet is SO way off base. He seriously needs a consultant or something. (In her family, they would call the journalist a "whore"? Dude, at my church back home, people don't use that word. Come on. But maybe that's explained by how most of her family isn't even religious? Geez, it's been what, four episodes, and the canon's already all twisty?) And the pre-marital sex thing - I mean, you can totally be devout Southern Baptist and have pre-marital sex, but you're going to feel BAD about it. Because if you're philosophically okay with it, you're not going to be Southern Baptist, you're going to be, I don't know, Episcopalian or something. I mean, there are WAYS to make evangelicals sympathetic - your average evangelical is a sickeningly nice person - but you can't pick ways that make them NOT evangelical anymore, especially if that's

[throughadoor]

yeah, i'm sure lots of devout southern baptists are having extra-marital sex, but most of them probably aren't joyfully bragging about it.

i get the feeling that the lesson we're supposed to be learning is that just because a character is super-religious doesn't mean that they follow all the rules of their religion, but that's ... not really much of a lesson? i honestly have no idea what i'm supposed to be learning from harriet. i just wish she would stop.

[mmeguilotn]

Having been raised evangelical in the Northeast, which I imagine is much like Michigan, I totally agree. Particularly because any sincere evangelical who is regularly interviewed is going to talk about her religion. Not all evangelicals are horrible and abrasive, but asked what they believe in and why, they are damn well going to tell you.

[mrshellion]

I was just saying how enjoyable the post season is when I'm not shitting myself over it. As a New Yorker/Yankees Hater, I was definitely rooting for the Mets, but now it's all about the Tigers. Because whatever for the Cardinals. I'm an AL girl.

[mrshellion]

Also, check this out, I'm watching crappy local Fox news. The reporter (Lisa Evers, former wife of Curtis Sliwa, leader of the Guardian Angels, but I digress) was talking to the poor Mets fans, disappointed but loving their team, and to each one she asked, "Are you still gonna be a Mets fan next year?" And of course they all reply, "Oh, yeah, of course!" And I said to N., "WTF, they're not Yankees fans!"

Anyway, I thought I'd share that bullshit with you.

[throughadoor]

god, i still love that icon SO MUCH. also, i agree, it's now time to get behind the tigers. which is funny, because i grew up rooting for an NL team (giants), but now i totally have an AL superiority complex.

[embitca]

Harriet. Grrgh. It actually would have made more sense if they'd decided to make her Catholic because then all the non-sensical stuff could be chalked up to her being a lousy Catholic and all the Protestants watching the show could not and say, "yup, typical Catholic" LOL. But then no Catholic would ever appear on the 700 Club or ever even be invited so that wouldn't work, and I feel that the 700 Club "break up" is the reason that they've made her character an evangelical in the first place. All because they need a SERIOUS reason for them to have broken up. ANd jjust.... I wish the whole romance aspect of this show would DIE DIE DIE! OMG I would just enjoy it so much more without this Matt/Harriet thing. FUCK

[throughadoor]

i know we've discussed this many times, but the whole thing just makes me wish that we'd GET SOME FUCKING BACKSTORY FOR SEAN ALREADY. seriously, we don't even know if his parents are dead, living, or a rapist and his victim. oh, wait! those were christian's parents! my bad.

anyway, you are completely right about how harriet should have been catholic. the quirky aspects of her character could have been a drinking problem and a tendency to mutter about the troubles.