2009! NO NO NO NO NO...what a bad idea. People are going to forget about them and they're going to lose momentum. You can't dump a show for 2 years and expect people to wait!

ARGH

I was at the parade and saw Brindi Irwin lip-synching. It was like watching a future trainwreck in training.

I felt so embarrassed for Good Charlotte on the float. I had to turn my head.

Oh, that's even worse than I imagined. (Originally I was thinking along the lines of the Baja Men, and I guess I wasn't too far off.) Thanks for the information, I think.

I was afraid that the combination of teeny tiny waist, legs and everything but the boobs, which seem to have remained at their back in the day size, despite massive weight loss on the part of Dolly, would cause the poor dear to topple over while she moved around on that float.

I'm surprised the kids didn't head for the hills at the sight of her. What the heck happened? She looks like a witch right of a Disney movie.

bindi is going to wake up at age 13 or so and rebel like crazy.

Now that you know that Crocmen are actually "an ill-paid quintet of yellow-shirted back-up singers who do nothing to distract one from the fact that Bindi Irwin is lip-synching," don't you wish that my original assertion was correct?

I thought so. But since that's been debunked, I offer this wholly-unsubstantiated, yet plausible, theory: the "ill-paid quintet of yellow-shirted back-up singers" were selected from the legions of men who auditioned (and were rejected) for roles in Australia's *other* great musical group for kiddies, The Wiggles.

You know, Dolly is like 100. She looks pretty good for being 100, regardless of looking a little Vince Neil....

It occurs to me that an HDTV-enabled refrigerator might be a good thing in one respect: at least I wouldn't stand if front of it, staring and slack-jawed, for ten minutes with the door *open*.

"And, yes, we're going to temporarily ignore rumors of "Lost's" TV return being bumped to 2009."

WHAT?!?!?

Er, "in", not "if".

And why 2009 for Lost? Is that when the cast members finish serving their DUI sentences?

Hunh. I guess that even if the HFStival were still around Good Charlotte would not be getting invited back. Way to stick to your roots boys. Benji, what happened? Joel I can kind of understand going for the pop thing, but it seem like Benji's dissapeared.

Metalheads weep!

Kevin DuBrow, lead singer for Quiet Riot, apparently has passed away.

Let's all get out our metal face masks, Slade LP's, and Aqua Net purple in remembrance of an 80's icon. ...for me, at least.

"And why 2009 for Lost? Is that when the cast members finish serving their DUI sentences?"....

Now that's surly.

surlychick I have 2 words for you: writers strike!

***LALALALALALALALALA***NOTLISTENINGTO2009LOSTRUMOURS****LALALALALA**

Damn, I hope Dubrow didn't go out in the typical rock star fashion of overdose.

Oooh, a comment of the week shout-out. I'm blushing.

Just the weekend I was contemplating my plain old boring refrigerator, and telling it to *do* something, not just stand there chillin'.

Dolly scares me, but I'm still curious as to what would happen if you threw her in a swimming pool. Do those things bob to the surface?

Ohh geez, Kevin DuBrow? Bloody hell. So who's going to be number 3? One of the guitarists for Hawthorne Heights just died here in DC over the weekend. These always happen in 3's, right?

My thoughts and condolences to his family. He was a heck of a tallent and a heck of a guy from all I've heard about him.

Liz's article on Oprah was really scary. I think I heard once that she (Oprah, not Liz!) could easily gain 8 pounds in one weekend, which might explain the horrible, expandable clothing and fridge obsession.
Maybe she needs a little sex?

Quiet Riot was playing gigs as recently as July. Sounds like it was sudden.

Yeah... Quiet Riot just put out an album this year.

I saw them about 8 years ago (Geez... that was a long time ago, come to think about it) at VA Beach Amphitheater with Slaughter, Night Ranger and Ted Nugent. The only thing that could have made the show any better is if the guitarist from Night Ranger blew out a hip during "Sister Christian" or Ted Nugent lost his voice box in a (not so) tragic flaming-arrow-into-a-guitar-and-amp-rig accident. That would have rocked.

"Dolly scares me, but I'm still curious as to what would happen if you threw her in a swimming pool. Do those things bob to the surface?"

tea >> keyboard

Now I have this image of unconscious Dolly floating in the ocean after a cruise ship sinking, saved by "the twins."

Dolly looks like she is either wearing a corset and/or has had ribs removed like the gals did in the old days. Freaky.
And I don't even want to know what her boobs are made of.

Lay off Dolly! She's earned the right to look any way she wants and at her age, I think she looks fine.

Liz, when I saw this pic all I could think of was your caption contest.

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/homepage/hp11-26-07g.jpg

Okay, so i can't find out where to comment on the blog part, and i really need your help! I live in arlington and the backstreet boys are coming here to Clarendon Ball Room--however i am not 21! And i am absolutely their biggest fan. I know that you're not a boy band fan Liz, but i was wondering if you could tell me any info about their arrival/hotel/restaurant or could possibly help me catch them before or after the show? it would mean the world to me, and i cannot believe they are coming to my HOMETOWN! thanks!

I didn't know the Backstreet Boys still had fans...

Pick the "Lost" Book Club Decemeber selection

Decemeber? Riiight.

How about that grammar and punctuation book, 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves'?

Just checked a video about her at largeplace.com.