Portia de Rossi is beautiful and poignant. Also, I like words.

The word "arrest" just caught my attention.  Really.

It means to suspend but also to engage "as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait" -some book.  I like that.  A word that means being held back but can also mean being propelled into awareness.

Arrested Development is, perhaps, my favorite television show of all time.  At one point I was going to make my About Me say, "I like to write about TV.  My main thought about TV is Arrested Development.  This blog is all my side-thoughts." But, Wil (wisely, I think) advised me against this choice.  He thought people might not get that it was a joke and think I just left some words out. I am nothing if not paranoid that people will think I messed up and didn't realize it.

I saw Portia de Rossi on Ellen the other day and she said this lovely thing about how Ellen helped teach her to accept herself.  She said she realized she was already "perfectly good enough."  What a strong yet humble way to be.

morning cup of Saved by the Bell

The gang is graduating from high school and Jessie is wearing her mortarboard so far back on her head that it's parallel to her face.  Kelly and Lisa did the same thing.  What the hell, ladies?  What the hell?

Jack Shepard's rage-filled smile

Smiles, like donuts, can be filled with various things.  Some are filled with friendly hopefulness.  Some are filled with giddy abandon.

Some are filled with rage.

Matthew Fox does one hell of an angry smile.  He's been doing it since Party of Five but not nearly as menacingly as he did it on Lost.

the best part is when the angry smile

turns into the angry smile/look away/smolder seethe

Sometimes there's even a pissed-off chuckle.

He also does a fantastic disappointed head shake.

the time Kourtney Kardashian captured my attention

(Note how I didn't spell it "kaptured."  I win forever.)

I like Kourtney Kardashian sometimes.  Earlier today, she was brunching on television while I was folding laundry in the plain, unfilmed world like a petty commoner.  Her boyfriend or whatever, Scott*, teased her about a time she let her "bush" grow out and Kourtney smiled and joked that she could totally make full '70s style bushes a trend if she wanted to.  It was a cool, funny moment.  The rest of that week's episode should have been edited out leaving only that exchange.

Kourtney is annoying at giving advice, though.  Like, Kris will say something sad and dumb and needy yet oddly defiant and Kourtney will be like, "you just need to [so-and-so]! and [so-and-so]! and [so-and-so]!" in this extremely patronizing, emphatic yet somehow bored tone.  I know none of those words make sense next to each other but it's all true.  Bible.

*I've seen many people refer to Scott as being American Psycho-like because of his fastidious attention to grooming and nutball/highball-fashion sense and being a bottomless pit of hollow.  I like to think Scott realizes how silly he is, though.  Patrick Bateman couldn't tolerate feeling silly.  He would have murdered the concept of feeling silly if that were a possible thing to murder.  Also bible.

Whiskeyvision

Wil and I are drinking so much whiskey and watching so much Lost.

Wil just pointed out that Desmond is eating a Nerf football here

and he is so right

I mean, c'mon

Another time Wil and I watched Lost and drank whiskey it had French subtitles and I kept over-analyzing the characters' use of the "tu" and "vous" forms.  I was all, "look how casual Locke is being towards Charlie right now.  Why are the French privy to subtle dynamics we're not privy to?!"

Basically Lost + whiskey = excellence.

[images from Lost and Amazon.com]

The Time I Realized I Have at Least One Thing in Common with Donald Glover

This screenshot of Community makes me inordinately happy.  I just looked up "inordinately" to make sure it means what I thought it meant and it totally, totally does.  
For one thing, it's LeVar Burton reading to someone from a picture book, so, that's instantly pleasant.  But mainly, Donald Glover does eye-bulgingly petrified flawlessly.  You know that thing people do where they kiss their fingertips as a tribute to a delicious meal?  I dedicate one of those to Donald Glover's eye work.

I recently found out that Donald Glover and I have a thing in common!  In one of his rap songs (is "rap song," like, a normal thing to write?*) he mentions liking Breaking Bad.  I like Breaking Bad!  So, we have that in common.  Just us, no one else in the world.  Okay, Wil too, but that is it.  Just me, Wil, and Donald Glover.  Yep.

I found two versions of the lyrics for that rap ("Untouchable").   In one there's a comma between sex and clothes and in the other there's not.   I don't know which is accurate, I'll leave that up to lyricsmania and lyricshall to hash out.  I'm sure, being the lyric experts they are, that they definitely don't not care at all.

"I like food, sex, clothes, watching Breaking Bad" -lyricsmania.com


"I like food, sex clothes, watching Breaking Bad" -lyricshall.com


sex clothes.  hee.


 p.s. I don't know if he's kidding about liking Breaking Bad.  I hope he's not.  It's a quality show.  It has all the best things like sublimating rage through mineral collecting and prize-winningly large eyebrows. If you enjoy Breaking Bad as much as Donald Glover and I do I highly recommend BestWeekEver's recaps,  They are so choice. 


* I'm nerdy like Donald Glover :)?  No.  He's nerdy-cool and I'm just nerdy-misanthropic-weird. 



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