en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/4384139 Comments by PeppermintBtlr http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/friday-open-thread-23/#IDComment288939540 Successful actors are almost always on the small side, just as a general principle. I know Monroe's weight fluctuated a bit throughout her career, but I don't understand why people have so much invested in the subject. I wish someone would send exactly sized duplicates of her major wardrobe pieces on a tour of the malls of America for regular folk to try on. That would (hopefully) settle it once and for all. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:10:04 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/friday-open-thread-23/#IDComment288939540 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/friday-open-thread-23/#IDComment288928023 No, that's just knowing the answer. Which I notice you haven't given yet. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:53:30 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/friday-open-thread-23/#IDComment288928023 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/the-hollywood-caller-nbc-to-try-something-all-together-new-and-different/#IDComment288875862 And all of this seems like a better idea to them than just giving Community back to its cult audience? Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:42:03 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/the-hollywood-caller-nbc-to-try-something-all-together-new-and-different/#IDComment288875862 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/friday-open-thread-23/#IDComment288866038 I cheated and looked. I won't spoil your contest but this will be impossible to guess. I'm a big fan of that particular kind of writing. While I appreciate his magnum opus for being ground-breaking, I never enjoyed reading it the way I loved the work of his contemporaries. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:27:30 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/friday-open-thread-23/#IDComment288866038 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288532467 And the East is the least, absolutely. Not that I want to start any kind of an east/west feud or anything. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:15:51 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288532467 http://crasstalk.com/2011/11/william-morris-textiles-and-books/#IDComment288363570 That's beautiful. I have a copy of the cover of News From Nowhere on my bulletin board and sometimes just stop to look at it. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:31:32 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2011/11/william-morris-textiles-and-books/#IDComment288363570 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288362430 Thanks so much! Yes, I am all welcomed up and have started looking around. There's a section just for books. Very nice. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:29:39 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288362430 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288288948 Is it The Pearl, or some wonderful thing I haven't heard of yet? Thu, 9 Feb 2012 22:36:09 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288288948 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288251743 A good place for them. I think we're safe. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 21:35:11 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288251743 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288250700 Thank you, non-homicidal Blix! You know, I tried to mention once that another Blix already existed, but my words were swallowed up in all the chaos. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 21:33:28 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288250700 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288230339 I can tell! Thu, 9 Feb 2012 21:02:45 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288230339 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288230005 I believe they thought the shots were sufficiently pixillated, but it was still pretty gross. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 21:02:19 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288230005 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288229000 Cat gifs. I'd forgotten such wonderful things even existed. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 21:00:47 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288229000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288221906 Okay, now I'm overwhelmed. Thanks, and as soon as I figure out this completely alien commenting platform I hope to have lots of fun. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:49:59 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288221906 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288213712 I am at work, so all of my pants-removal is going to be figurative rather than literal. Sounds good though, thanks. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:38:15 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288213712 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288210822 You wouldn't have loved these zombies. It isn't the flesh-eating that gets to you, it's the emotional abuse. For instance, they have no use for food, right? And yet they insist on living in the only mini-market. It's things like that, I tell you, that destroy a person's faith in zombies as a group. And I'm not usually one to generalize like that. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:34:12 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288210822 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288209325 Well that's exactly what I'm going for. I might have contemplated a return to Jezebel, but then they went and posted the screen caps of the journalist being raped. It's been a big, fun week for the Gawker media empire. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:32:14 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288209325 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288208108 Hello! Good to see you too. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:30:41 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288208108 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288203331 I think you got it there, with Matt Smith and David Tennant in a tie close behind. Which sounds kind of sexy. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:23:46 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288203331 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288200521 It was awful! Hurricanes, tornados, firestorms, roving bands of genetically enhanced wolves... I lost everything. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:19:15 +0000 http://crasstalk.com/2012/02/thursday-open-thread-21/#IDComment288200521