happy birthday kim!

If you've never been you should check out kim's blog, the post that's up right now made me laugh so hard I cried.

Happy Birthday Kim!!  I'm sad I wasn't in NYC to take an awkward picture with you.  Soon though, very soon.

why don't I have this?!

I did the best I could to get a clear shot.  Please look at the bumper sticker he has in the lower left hand corner of his back window.

It's an important message that I would like to support by getting this bumper sticker for my car as well.  I just wonder where he got it and how I didn't know such a thing existed.

Clearly I'm not the super fan this guy is but I at least think we could be friends.  Best friends.

Burlesque

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My sister took me on dream date last week that ended in seeing this.  And let me tell you, it was good, I highly recommend.

It has the Dreamgirls thing where Christina is pretty stiff when she's just doing lines, or just dancing, but as soon as she starts "performing" you remember why they cast her in the first place.

And then there's Cher.  omg.  Before going in I had the thought in the back of my head that it was so wild that Cher won an Oscar, but then I remembered why.  She is brilliantly amazing.  She has that Mariska quality of being able to take mediocre writing and make it believable.  Then to see her interacting with all the other amazing actors in it was super fun as well.

My sister has already been to see it again.  I feel the same way, so if anybody wants to go, just send me a smoke signal.

cool

mariska?

she clearly needs to have a movie made about her where she is played by Queen Latifa.

Jennifer Love on SVU

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I gotta say I was impressed with the performance.  I thought that the writing was pretty terrible but she managed to pull it off and make it sound not that bad.  I think that's the true test of a good actor or actress, if they are on an episode of Law and Order and actually make you forget how absurd some of their lines are.  That's why Mariska is so good!

I did appreciate that for most of the episode she looked pretty rough.  She wasn't wearing much, if any, makeup which helped you forget that it was Jennifer Love you were watching.  However, they did add in video of her that was supposedly taken when she was 16, but was obviously shot in tandem with the rest of the episode.  The videos featured her all done up and wearing a really ridiculous candy striper uniform.  I feel like it was in her contract, "ok ok, i'll go sans makeup, but only if you figure out a way to include something where i'm young and hot".  I mean the video had her licking an ice cream cone. 

I love svu.