Justin Chambers at Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships at Santa Anita Park on Nov 7
Nov. 8th, 2009 | 09:20 pm
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"The Book Thief" Left Me Speechless
Nov. 8th, 2009 | 08:18 pm
location: home
mood:
touched
posted by:
liljan98
"Unsettling, thought-provoking, life affirming, triumphant and tragic, this is a novel of breathtaking scope, masterfully told. An important piece of work, but also a wonderful page-turner."
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The White House Music Series: classical music celebrated.
Nov. 7th, 2009 | 02:18 pm
music: Marvin Gaye - Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky) | Powered by Last.fm
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ladypolitik in
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Watch the WH's classical music daytime workshop
and evening performances: one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight
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GREY'S ANATOMY: Holidaze (11/19) Photos
Nov. 7th, 2009 | 10:53 am
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wtlfan
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Ellen Pompeo out on Nov 6
Nov. 7th, 2009 | 01:13 am
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wtlfan
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White House candids: October, 2009 (Pt. II).
Nov. 6th, 2009 | 09:02 pm
music: Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard | Powered by Last.fm
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ladypolitik in
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Official WH photographers | Samantha Appleton, Chuck Kennedy, Pete Souza
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IT IS LIKE AWESOME WRAPPED IN A DELICIOUS TACO DIPPED IN SPESHUL AWESOMESAUCE.
Nov. 6th, 2009 | 09:47 pm
mood:
hyper
music: Rufus Wainwright - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
posted by:
a_way_of_sin

01. I LOVE THIS EPISODE SFM AND WANT TO MARRY IT AND HAVE ITS BABIES. THANK YOU WRITERS, I'D SEND YOU BASKETS FILLED WITH CANDY IF I COULD. BTW MY MIND IS STILL BLOWN, INCOHERENT REVIEW IS INCOHERENT. BEWARE OF THE CAPSLOCK!
02.
1. THE PARODY INTRO, THE TANDEMBIKE
2. THE HULK
3. GREY'S ANATOMY, THE MUSIC, DR. SEXY MD., OHAY DENNY! SRSLY?! SRSLY! YOU BRILLANT COWARD! DEAN FANGIRLING IS SO CUTE LOL HE HAS A MANCRUSH <3

4. JAPANESE GAME SHOW! NUTCRACKERRRRRRRRRRRR! HOW THE HELL WAS SAM EVEN LUCID AFTER PRACTICALLY GETTING HIS BALLS SMASHED? SPEAK JAPANESE TO ME DEAN! The questions were horrible but...true I guess..., AND OMG CASTIEL!!!!
5. GENITAL HERPES AD. OH MY GOD. WE WERE SO CONFUSED, AND THOUGHT IT WAS A REAL COMMERCIAL AND THEN....WAIT....JARED?....GENITAL HERPES?! WHAAAAAAAAAAT

*IS DED*
6. THE KNIGHT RIDER! LOL SAM.
7. CSI: MIAMI, DEAN HATES PROCEDURAL SHOWS, YEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
8. OHAY GABRIEL! I really wish I hadn't been spoiled, it was an awesome surprise. I like him, feel kinda sad that he had to watch his family fall apart and couldn't watch it anymore and fled. GABRIEL IS SO TOTALLY THE MIDDLE CHILD, Y/Y?
ANYWAY, GABE, NO NEED TO BE SO ANTAGONISTIC TOWARDS YOUR BROTHER. I WANT TO SEE HIM HANG OUT WITH SAMN, DEAN AND CAS AND HAVE EPIC BITCH FIGHTS WITH CASTIEL A LA SAM AND DEAN BUT TIMES 100.
9. CAS' HURT FACE MAKES ME WANT TO SMACK A BITCH. MY POOR BB. ALSO THAT CUT ON THE ARCH OF HIS OH SO PERFECT NOSE? SO SECKSY, UNF. WTF SELF. AND DEAN'S CONCERN FOR CAS MADE ME GO ALL AWWWWWWWW. I'M SORRY FOR MY CRAY CRAY U GUISE.
Btw. what was with that ending? CAS WAS STILL THERE DAMMIT!
10. ALSO THE WHOLE DEAN=MICHAEL, SAM=LUCIFER TOTALLY LAYS THE GROUNDWORK FOR SIR=GOD. GET TO IT KRIPKE!
11. NO ANNA. WOHOOOOO
Overall score: A+ FOR ALL OF THE ABOVE. OH THIS SHOW. ♥♥♥
03. I'm sorry for the lack of updates about... anything, really. Uni has stepped up the workload and my lovelies on Twatter are taking the brunt of my frustration, I'm sorry bbs. ♥
I hate to say it, but I'm kinda glad that the Hellatus is in this period, since I have exams and I'd hate having to miss out so much. It also wouldn't help my concentration lol.
04. EVEN TWATTER COULDN'T CONTAIN MY CRAY CRAY, TIME OUT? REALLY? AT LEAST
05. Misha twatted last night, now if there were a cray cray-Olympics, he'd take the gold. ILU MISHMISH ♥
mishacollins: I'm launching an apparel line called: Mishap w/designer Galiezzo Anrnea-4 me it's just business but he's thrilled. http://twitpic.com/ofb75
mishacollins: You think Galiezzo is a kid? I thought he was just a short guy with great ideas. That would explain a lot though, the tantrums, the mom.
mishacollins: By the way, the bloody taco suit was a terrible halloween idea. Everyone thought i was dressed as a used sanitary napkin. (ME: ROFLCOPTER)
mishacollins: Every time i start making jokes, someone points out that something terrible has happened in the world. Like the shooting at fort hood.
mishacollins: I hadn't been watching news. From now on i promise to adopt a somber tone. It's safer and more in keeping with the temperament of our times.
mishacollins: Stop your protests-there'll be no more humor. This is the dawn of a new era. I'm going to go sacrifice a goat to mark the occasion. Goodbye
mishacollins: no, @moondancer1626, the goat is not unsuspecting. I told him this might happen weeks ago. He's terminally ill anyway-he's said his goodbyes
06. I'm working on a Thanksgiving Cas/Jimmy/whatever icon.....he looks ridiculous btw LOL
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grey's - invest in love
Nov. 6th, 2009 | 01:12 pm
mood:
annoyed
music: steps and numbers - appleseed cast
posted by:
morgenwrites
WHY ARE YOU SO BORRIIIIIING??
Also, now that Owen has transformed into a total douche, lets get rid of him and keep Cristina's new hottie, k?
Wake me up when Meredith has a storyline again.
No love,
Me.
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Grey's Anatomy: Jesse Williams Dissects the Jackson-Cristina Kiss
Nov. 6th, 2009 | 07:24 am
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wtlfan
Now that you've seen the kiss between Owen's gal Cristina (Sandra Oh) and new Mercy Wester Jackson (Jesse Williams) on Grey's Anatomy, find out about the aftermath, details on the other Mercy West-Seattle Grace coupling and the return of Izzie (Katherine Heigl) from Williams himself ...
TVGuide.com: Jackson and Cristina kissed! What the ... ?
Jesse Williams: From the beginning when Jackson joined, he's immediately thrown into this direct competition with Cristina. We're on the same cases, we're battling for surgeries. We've had a couple of run-ins. In this episode, she really takes charge and goes with her gut and I'm in a position to really admire her. We have similar character traits and watching her take the reins gets Jackson fired up. He's looking at her differently now. He's seen a whole new side of her that's so attractive. What also helped was that he had been boozing all night, but the attraction is real and it has been mounting. I think she kind of liked it.
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'Grey's Anatomy,' 'Private Practice' cross over again
Nov. 6th, 2009 | 01:09 am
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wtlfan
"Grey's Anatomy" and "Private Practice" will cross over again in early 2010, with former lovers Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) and Mark Sloan (Eric Dane) popping up on each other's shows, according to several reports.
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Why Trains Are My Favourite Means of Transportation...
Nov. 6th, 2009 | 05:33 am
location: home
mood:
sleepy
posted by:
liljan98
Our family home is a walking distance from the city center with supermarket and shops as well as the train station. When we were kids we were never taken to school by car, because my dad had to be at his school (he was a teacher) in the neighbouring town as well and usually left before we did. We walked or took the bike. When we went to the movies as teenagers we took the train into one of the neighbouring towns where there were movie theatres. My dad would never have thought of taking us anywhere by car, if we could get there on our own. My mom never was overly worried about me walking home from the sport team practice in the evenings. They raised us to be rather self-sufficient when it comes to transportation and looking back on it I actually appreciate that. And even though my brothers all own a car by now, they don’t idolize their cars either unlike quite a few guys I know. It’s a means of transportation and they would never take the car to run an errand, if they could also just walk that distance. We’re living in small town after all.
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Nov. 5th, 2009 | 10:01 pm
music: The Beatles - Two of Us | Powered by Last.fm
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ladypolitik in
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( + )U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wait for arriving leaders at the Phipps Conservatory, before an opening reception and working dinner for heads of delegation, at the Pittsburgh G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Photographer | Brooks Kraft
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Too many babies.
Nov. 5th, 2009 | 07:35 pm
mood:
busy
posted by:
ack_attack
ANYWAY. I have pictures. :D
( Yet another baby blanket and my Mad Men Halloween costume! )
So. I'm now working on my EIGHTH blanket since last summer. EIGHTH. My hands! My poor hands! I can't wait until I can finally make something for MYSELF again. Every night when I get home from work I do the "Time to make the donuts" guy impression and walk into my room toward my knitting stuff going, "Time to make the blanket."
I have to get all this done before LOST comes back and sucks up all my time for 6 months!
This weekend if I get a minute I'll post some pictures of adorable animals from that trip to upstate New York I went on earlier this month. Alpacas are seriously the cutest animals on the planet, I swear.
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Grey's Anatomy: Tonight's Cristina-Jackson Hookup Is "Hot" and May Not Be Over Yet...
Nov. 5th, 2009 | 05:20 pm
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wtlfan
Sorry, Cristina-Owen fans, but tonight's scandalous sweeps episode of Grey's Anatomy is going to be a little rough on you.
As the Canadian promo for tonight's episode teases, Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) is going to be cheating on Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) with the "Hotness Monster" himself, Mercy Wester Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams). The hookup goes down against the backdrop of a huge pediatric case led by our girl-crush, Arizona Robbins (breakout star Jessica Capshaw).
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Exclusive: Addison and Mark reunited in 'Grey's,' 'Private' crossover event
Nov. 5th, 2009 | 05:18 pm
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wtlfan
Okay, here’s the sitch: In the Grey’s half of the crossover, Mark summons Addison to Seattle Grace to perform a surgery on TBCFTSCC (a.k.a. Leven Rambin). The storyline spills over into Private when, according exec producer Shonda Rhimes, “complications arise and Mark ends up taking [her] back down to Los Angeles to get more surgery.”
What’s Mark’s connection to TBCFTSCC? Will sparks fly between lovers-turned-friends Addison and Mark? And what impact does this crisis have on “Mexie”? Answers to all those questions (as well as a few others) can be found in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on sale tomorrow. Come on, don’t make that face. You know you love it when I shamelessly cross-promote.
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LiveJournal Major Notes: Spam counter-attack, RSS feeds again, CSI Deadly Intent contest
Nov. 5th, 2009 | 01:15 pm
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The empire strikes back
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Diagnosing ‘Grey’s Anatomy’s’ Ailing Symptoms
Nov. 5th, 2009 | 03:39 pm
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wtlfan
Now, in its sixth season, it is still one of television’s highest rated shows. But viewers seem to be watching largely out of habit and a hope that the show will magically return to the glory of its first two seasons.
Season five’s improbable storylines and dark tone turned a lot of people off. This year people willed themselves to tune in with the comforting thought that it would be impossible for the show to come up with anything worse than last year’s Denny The Sexy Hallucination storyline.
Indeed, this season has been 100% ghost sex free. Unfortunately, that does not mean it has recovered. Watching the ill-conceived merger storyline, it is hard to shake the feeling that the show has strayed so far from its original premise that it has lost its identity.
We may not be Dr. House, but we at Fancast think we can diagnose what is ailing ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’
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1. The Cast Is Fleeing This Show Like It’s The Titanic
2. The Merger Storyline Is A Textbook Example of How To Jump The Shark
Shonda Rhimes’ solution to losing so many cast members at once was not to delve deeper into the lives of the core characters who remained on the canvas. (Alex’s family background is woefully underexplored.) Nor was it to slowly introduce an interesting replacement for George. It was, instead, to throw together a contrived hospital merger storyline and introduce half a dozen new residents in the space of fifteen minutes. Who are these people? Well one of the guys is kind of a jerk, another is cute and then there’s the woman who was already gone. The Seattle Grace residents likely regard the newcomers from Mercy as unwelcome invaders. Why should the audience think any differently?
3. Resident Evil
The show began as an in depth exploration of what it is like to be a surgical intern. It was thrilling to watch the characters learn to become competent doctors. We saw them go from doing blood tests and writing charts to performing vital roles in major surgeries. Once they became residents, their progress should have continued. There could have been so many great plots about them teaching interns and picking specialties. Instead, their teaching responsibilities were treated as jokes. The new interns were universally portrayed as incompetent. The only resident who seems to have settled on a specialty is Christina, not that she gets to pursue it since Seattle Grace no longer has a cardiac surgeon.
4. Lexi Is Still Grey’s Version of Cousin Oliver
Long lost siblings are great on the daytime soaps, but in primetime they are almost always annoying. Lexie ranks right up there with Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Dawn, and Gossip Girl’s Scott in terms of annoyance. From her photographic memory, to the way other characters constantly praise her, Grey’s is constantly instructing the audience to love and admire her. It has not worked. Whether she is guiltripping Meredith into donating a piece of her liver to the father she hates, or ripping off her clothes and begging Mark to teach her, Lexie is almost always unlikable and downright inappropriate. Though she has been part of the cast for longer than Owen she still seems like a tacked on newbie. Yet she is always front and center. Most episodes she has more to do than Derek. That is just plain wrong.
5. McDreamy is McAbsent
America fell in love with Derek Shepherd right along with Meredith. He was smart and quirky and gorgeous. It looked like he would be front and center this season, with an arc that suggested he would become the new Chief of Surgery. Instead, he has gotten less screen time than the annoying new residents. Patrick Dempsey is a bankable movie star. It is baffling that a show would not keep its popular leading man front and center. Last week’s episode focused on Derek. It was by far the season’s best. Let’s hope it’s the start of a trend.
6. The Drama 101 Monologues
Grey’s used to have great, albeit highly stylized, dialogue. Its linguistic influence was so great that everyone started saying, “Seriously,” and “Mc-blanky.” Now the creativity has turned into a cliche. At least once an episode a character launches into a soliloquy filled with repetitive declarative statements like, “You’re the guy who used to pour my cereal in the morning. That’s it. It’s all I remember about you. You’re not my father, you’re just the guy who used to pour my cereal. ” It’s cheesy, artificial and irritating.
7. The Growing Medical Incompetence
Seattle Grace used to be a great hospital. That was why nationally renowned doctors like Derek and Mark chose to work there. Patients received state of the art treatment from doctors who really cared. Those days are over. Today it is a hospital where the care is so shoddy that an entire episode was devoted to the numerous mistakes that let to a patient’s death. A show about a lousy hospital is not a light drama. It’s a horror story.
8. The Ruined Couples
Grey’s has a knack for creating rootable couples: Meredith and Derek, Alex and Izzie, Christina and Owen, even Callie and Arizona. Unfortunately, once they get together they become dysfunctional and unlikable. Izzie and Alex are not celebrating her miraculous survival. They are too busy resenting each other. Christina helps Owen through his PTSD only to have him treat her shabbily at work. Unrelenting misery is not entertaining. Grey’s needs to learn to write happy functional couples.
9. Lack of Memorable Patients
Remember the woman who swallowed the dolls heads in season one? How about the train crash victims who were impaled on the pole? They were interesting, likable, three dimensional characters unlike those on any other medical show. They made indelible impressions in just a few minutes of screentime. They were all in the first couple seasons of the show. Now all of the patients seem to exist solely to provide heavy handed parallels to the doctors personal lives. They are no longer distinctive, another symptom of how this show has lost its way.
10. Fail To The Chief
The Chief used to be everyone’s dream boss. He was a strong leader and mentor who was tough yet compassionate. When George failed his residency exam, he created a special Chief’s intern position to soften the blow. Now, he is completely incompetent. He hides in his office to avoid dealing with the problems his lack of leadership has created. He did not even bother to come up with a transition plan for the merger. It is difficult not to see him as a stand-in for series creator Shonda Rhimes, who is feeling the pressure of running two shows. Nobody sympathizes with a leader who refuses to step up and do his job.
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One Reason Why I'll Never Be P.O.T.U.S.
Nov. 5th, 2009 | 08:33 pm
location: home
mood:
busy
posted by:
liljan98
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Ask Ausiello: Spoilers on 'Grey's
Nov. 5th, 2009 | 07:15 am
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wtlfan
Ausiello: My new BFF Shonda Rhimes says there are “some shocking things” in store for the newlyweds during the second half of the season. “The next part of [their] journey,” she teases, “is going to be pretty interesting.” I don’t know about you, but I get a little scared when Shonda throws words around like “pretty” and “interesting.”
