Oh yeah?! Well, I bet that when you make chocolate milk, all the syrup stays sludgy in the bottom!

NOLA mayor criticizes NYC.

Upon being criticized for the delay in rebuilding New Orleans one year after Katrina, mayor Ray Nagin replied, "You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later."

Because debate over how best to build a memorial/tourist destination is totally the same as rebuilding a devastated city and bringing back its residents and restarting the community. Seriously.

Friday Five

1. What book or books were special to you in your childhood?
Sleepover Friends, Matilda

2. What was particularly special or memorable about those books?
The Sleepover Friends always got to go on mild adventures (bike rides to the mall!) and had a regularly-reaffirming bond that I always wanted (I craved having a small group of friends that had sleepovers every Friday and could easily fit their personalities into basic types).

3. Have you re-read any of them as an adult?
Matilda I've read a million times over. I still love it.

4. If so, were the books as good as you remembered them?
See above. I haven't read the books that much a million times over, but in watching cartoons from my youth, I realize they're all not as good as I remember.

5. What do you think about movies being made out of children's classics (like the Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of The Rings, etc.)?
Don't think I ever thought of LotR as being a "children's classic". As I'm an adult, I don't know that movies made of children's classics are made with me in mind as an audience, but I prefer movies that stay true to the themes of a book rather than being a scene-for-scene translation.

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