Jess: "How did Doogie Howser get hotter than Malcolm Reynolds?" 

If you enjoyed Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (drhorrible.com), you may also enjoy this clip of Neil Patrick Harris singing on Sesame Street, taped for an upcoming episode (says the source--for all I know it's airing already).

If you HAVEN'T seen Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and you're a fan of musicals, supervillains, mad scientists, starcrossed romance, Firefly, Buffy, or Neil Patrick Harris of Doogie Howser/How I Met Your Mother/Old Spice fame, get thee to iTunes. (The preview was free last weekend, but now you can buy all three acts for $3.99.)

This guy has been on the Mongoose forums. (Actually, he could have been on any gaming forum.)

Alex and I have heard plenty of these, in person, at the cons from people who feel genuinely, deeply betrayed.

Take a look at this preview gallery for the G. I. Joe movie and tell me the Baroness doesn't look awesome.

My mobile has gone from working poorly to barely working. If you need to reach me, please send me e-mail. I'll update when I get a new card for it. 

Driving to the mall, filled with dread, because you have to buy a special-occasion dress on a very short deadline after an extremely stressful week. Knowing this process is probably going to be pure hell and that you will have to spend way too much money to compensate for no advance notice. Also, you will probably be spending this money on a dress that you will never wear again because you will have to settle on something not-so-great in order to get the hell out of there.

Walking into Macy's and spotting the perfect dress immediately. Discovering they only have sizes other than yours. Trying on the wrong size anyway because what the heck. Finding out that through some freak of manufacturing, you can wear this dress a size small, in a petite. Finally noticing the twice-slashed, now $99 price tag. Finding out there's also a sale.

Wanting to cry with relief because now you can go home and sleep.

Thank you, Fates and/or angels.

When I was 4 years old and new to daycare, I watched while some other kids built a wall out of giant blocks. I stared as their wall grew taller than me, and then, delirious with excitement, I ran, crashing through it, screaming "KOOL-AID!" 

The kids started yelling, and the daycare lady grabbed me and put me in the corner. To this day I feel a little hurt by it, so I can understand how this guy feels.

Arwel Hughes, 27, from Anglesey, U.K., watched two neighbors staging a lightsaber duel in their backyard while they filmed themselves. Drunk on most of a box of wine, he dressed himself in a black trash bag and a cape, and wielding a metal crutch, he jumped the backyard fence and announced that he was Darth Vader. Then he hit one of them in the head and the other in thigh. This was all captured on video. 

The two duelists claim they are devout members of the Jedi Church, and they believe his attack was premeditated (perhaps a hate crime).

Hughes pled guilty to assault but has not yet been sentenced. He claims not to remember the incident and says he has no idea where he got the crutch.

Really, there's not a lot to do in Wales.

Stolen from D.

1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.
6. One movie guess at a time. Give people a chance to guess before you steal all of the awesome! Comments are screened to let people guess.

1. "Brand, what happened to your braces?" phaecb
2. "Well, isn't that convenient for you....and the clock."
3. "I am here to negotiate the cessation of hostilities against Port Royal."  fireivy83
4. "After tonight, the three of us are not to be seen together ever again."
"After tonight...?" armbarred 
5. "Are you, like...checking me out?"
6. "You go too far, Marlowe."
"Those are harsh words to throw at a man, especially when he's walking out of your bedroom."
7. "I can't believe I'm making out with Jimmy Valentine!"
8. "Then get your fwiggin' feet off my stage!"  lordq42
9. "They all did it. But if you wanna know who killed Mr. Boddy, I did. In the hall. With the revolver. All right, Chief, take'em away. I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife."  daibheid
10. "I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever."

Does anyone know where I can donate hair-care and beauty products? My yearly spring purge has turned up dozens of bottles of shampoo, conditioner, serums, body wash, etc., that were given to me or bought capriciously and aren't right for me now.

They're all salon or drugstore brands, good stuff in clean bottles. Most have not been opened.

I was going to call a few local women's shelters, but if you already know of someplace that accepts this type of donation, please let me know! It will break my heart to throw it away, but I'm delighted to give it away.

"These jeans are designed for a real woman's body."

"These eyeshadow colors actually look good on real women."

"I love [insert name of zaftig actress here] because she's shaped like a real woman."

"It's an exercise regimen a real woman can stick to."

Movie stars are real women. Ballerinas are real women. Women who are 6 feet tall with slender, curveless physiques are real women. A chick who wears a size 0 is a real woman, no matter if she was born that way, if she works like hell to get that way, or if she's an anorexic coke head. Women with huge breasts and Barbie-doll figures are real women. Drag queens in glittering eye shadow--oh, well, okay.

I've learned over the years that a "real woman" is a "woman who doesn't make me feel insecure about myself." It's a jealous way of disparaging the women whom mainstream society finds most desirable, and it's only ever about looks, because you don't hear people referring to chess champions and Olympic athletes as "not real."

Some women will say--with not a little disdain--that "real women" are women who don't have the hours, money, or interest to devote themselves obsessively to their physical appearance. Well, those "non-real women" are reaping the payoff of their choices, and you are living with the payoff of yours. Claudia Schiffer is not bitter about your post graduate degree, your three kids, or your beautifully decorated home and gourmet cooking.

Some women will tell you that a "real woman" means "average." What does that even mean? Who considers herself to be average? And more important, who aspires to be average?

These words come from the mouths of women who say they want the definition of beauty to be more inclusive. What inclusive seems to mean, though, is "women who look just like me."

"Beautiful women are the easiest. Having been solicited so many times, they lose their ability to resist."

—Maurice Ronet, Les Femmes

I am not a Clinton supporter, but I've been trying to articulate, unsuccessfully, my heartfelt outrage at the cheap and savage ways she's being attacked by her opposers--because she's a woman.

I can't express my thoughts any better than this.

I want to buy Alex an iPhone for Christmas and am doing some research now, but I'm at a disadvantage since my employer has taken care of my phone for the last 9 years and I don't know a lot about plans and terminology.

So I'm asking all my friends: Do you have one? Do you know anyone who does? Impressions? Drawbacks? Recommendations?

I'm looking for an mp3 of the Foo Fighters song "The One." It was released only as a single that is now very expensive ($30+) to obtain because fans want it as a collector's item.

I don't want the CD or cover; I just want the song. Grateful for any help.