• I have washed up on the shores of a three-day migraine and will be moving very carefully today lest it return.
• I love it when an annoyed reviewer lets his or her inner wordsmith out to play. The NYT dislikes the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport.

  Many Bugatti buyers surely have access to racetracks, yet I’m equally sure that 90-some percent of them won’t have nearly enough driving talent to exercise this car. Mostly, I picture Euro-poseurs needing valet assistance to back up the Bugatti in Monaco, while jaws drop and the owner barks orders into his diamond-encrusted cellphone. When your car makes a Lamborghini seem tasteful, there’s a problem.

• The kitten spent all day yesterday sleeping with and/or on top of me, thus paying for his keep.  
• The rigged choice of the final three of this season's Project Runway was bad enough, but it is indefensible that [deleted] didn't win the episode challenge.  You could tell that Tim knew s/he was doomed in the critique: "I don't know what the judges will think, but ..."  Oh, yes, you did, Tim.
• I need something simple and brainless to do today.  Sewing requires brains and patience,  I never like watching TV when I'm tired, and Bujold is failing to satisfy.  I  can't explain why Diplomatic Immunity never hit my narrative kinks, but it didn't.  Perhaps it's because the antagonist was offscreen and unintelligible throughout.

• Friday night on NPR, the reporter mentioned that roughly (she had all the numbers, I don't) 25% of Russians believed that the Russians had put up the Berlin Wall.  The remainder believed that the Americans had done it, the Germans had done it themselves, or some combination of the true.  I am being reminded more and more how labile "truth" is; what people need to believe (see: the birther stories) is far more powerful than any recitation of fact.  This should not be news to me.
• I need to give the cat another sulfur bath today.  Ugh.

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A senior thesis idea for communications major Peter Vadala has turned into a campus-wide "Culture of Life" project that will soon evolve into "College Musical," a movie intended to spread the message of God's grace to secular audiences.

The project started out simply as a script that Vadala was writing for his thesis. When Vadala chose to actually create the movie, the project grew to include nearly 30 musicians, vocalists, actors and technical crew.

At first Vadala's script focused on abortion, but as he revised, he decided to focus on an anti-pornography message. Vadala said he can understand the issue, since he has met men who struggle with pornography.

• 11:25 is watching Cspan, as the house debates Health Care reform, decorum is an interesting exercise and Politics ain't my bag. #
• 11:37 okay, can someone tell me how the health care bill will cut medicare and #
• 11:38 okay, can someone tell me how the health care bill will cut medicare and "Kill Jobs?" #
• 23:50 I unlocked the Hello Cleveland! achievement on Rock Band 2! raptr.com/Thehallspace #

• Guys with greasy hair covered in headwraps are hot.  Everybody tells me so.
• Professionals, including fashion design students,  ALWAYS send out their prototypes to be done on buttonholing machines.  (This came from comments at Project Rungay.  God I love Project Rungay.)  Home sewers, if you consider buttonholes a nightmare?  You're right.)
• I thought the show was all about Tim Gunn.  Actually, it's all about the trio of Kors, Garcia, and Gunn.  Fortunately, the bitchy members of the triumvirate will be back next season, as will New York City.
• Christopher has Polaroids of Heidi shopping at Wal-Mart.  Think about it.  You know it makes sense.  Tim Gunn is nodding his head.
• "I don't know anything about fashion" is a choice, not destiny.  There are books.  There's the Internet.  If you're going to self-educate, more power to you.  Use the resources that are available to you in the smallest of small towns.  So you didn't get to go to design school?  That's a loss and a wrench.  It doesn't release you from the responsibility of learning about things outside your own head.  When I know more about construction than one of the designers?  That's bad.
• If you can buy 30 yards for $300?  Trust me, baby, it's not outerwear.
• Bitchy is not required for talent, is not a substitute for talent, but can certainly accompany talent.
• I miss Merlin.  And Santino.  And all the other people I hated who had flair and imagination and the ability to go big and fail big.
• I miss Uli.  And Korto. And all the nice people who had talent and quietly went their own way to demonstrate it.
• When the trailer for Models Of The Runway starts "You've seen them walk..." but does not continue "But you've never seen them talk", there is a reason.  Models don't have a lot to do in between their trips down the runway.  They also don't have a lot in the way of an inner life..  Girls Hang Around is not a concept for a stellar show.    Models highlights the fundamental problem -- the models have absolutely no control.  A great model paired with a terrible designer is dead.    PR designers prefer to learn the quirks of one model's body and then stick with her to avoid wasting time on remeasurement.
• Next year, back to New York City.  HURRAY!  Please cast a set of people who have style by the yard, who have a vision, and who, most of all, can produce more than one outfit.

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• 23:08 Was cleaning all day, have to be presentable fr our weekend guests the Huddlestons #

Are you doing Yuletide this year?