Who gets a pass?

[Sally, la reina]

Oooooh, did you really spread out your own art materials for this picture, Jacks? Something tells me you didn't just google "art supplies" for this.

[Sally, la reina]

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Yeah, that's my stuff, Sally. See the cardinal drawing, pre-painting?

Larry, my pal, let up with the homonyms, okay? ;D

[Kevin]

jackie - LOLOLOLOL I KNEW IT! when i went in that direction i KNEW i would spell it wrong and draw the ire of the Grammar/Spelling Mongols (sounds better than nazi) here on Goodreads. for now on my comments will be limited to the "Run Dick run, see Jane swing" variety.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

What, and spoil our fun, Kevin? No, no, we WANT you to feel free to make amusing syntactical and grammatical errors. :D

What was this thread about, now?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Limiting myself to people who are still alive and producing work:

novelists:
Elizabeth George

pianists:
Maurizio Pollini
Krystian Zimerman
Murray Perahia
Alfred Brendel
(and a few more)

Okay I have to include a few dead ones:
Arthur Rubinstein
Dinu Lipatti

actors:
Jeremy Irons

tv:
Bill Moyers
Jon Stewart

artists:
Rackstraw Downes
Martin Puryear

prosecutors:
Patrick Fitzgerald

[Carol]

I remember Jon Stewart's show on MTV. Howard Stern was completely brutal to him. Jon ended up sitting in his lap.

[Cheri]

What's the deal with Lance Armstrong? I would be crushed if his doping charge was true...

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I remain confused by it. I assumed the doping charges were true, because some of his teammates have said they saw him doping. However, I don't think he has actually ever tested positive. Also, the organization that stripped his titles was, confusingly, not the organization that awarded the titles (which would be the Tour de France). I have also read that the anti-doping org that stripped him, has a vendetta against him and is essentially a kangaroo court. So I don't know what to believe. I feel like he's lying. It just seems like he's a liar. I don't know.

[Pat]

Yes the USADA has been trying to nail Lance for 12 or 15 years. Now they are saying he was using transfusions of his own blood, which is against the rules.
They do not have the authority to take away his titles, only the International cycling federation can do that. The USADA can advise, nothing else.
The circumstantial evidence is against Lance. Numerous witnesses (most of who have been busted for doping) plus the fact that almost all the guys that have won or placed second in the tour have been busted looks bad.

[Cheri]

no pass for Floyd Landis
http://www.chicagonow.com/pace-of-chi...

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Apparently (I read this in a sports column yesterday) Lance's former teammate Frankie Andreu and Frankie's wife were with Lance either before or after his cancer treatment in Indianapolis. Lance was sitting with all his doctors and his doctors asked him what drugs (what performance enhancing drugs?) he had ever been on. Frankie and his wife started to leave and Lance said, "No, you can stay." Then, according to Frankie's wife, Lance listed all the PEDs he had been on, steroids, etc. She testified to this when she was deposed at some point. Lance's response was that she had misunderstood what the doctors were asking.

So why weren't the doctors deposed? Seems like they would have taken good notes on that. Anyway, very damning. Frankie's wife concluded from this that the PEDs had caused Lance's cancer, and she said to her fiance (they were engaged at the time) "If you're doing any of those drugs, we're not getting married."

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No one, every one. I don't know. I was thinking about it as I read through y'all's lists. (Is that how you pluralize a contraction, or are you not allowed to?) The thing is, for me, I can love who does or is in something...maybe writes something, but if I hate the idea I won't go/see it/read it etc. ie. American Psycho - Christian Bale (Yeah, heids), Robin Williams when he played that creepy camera stalker guy, That movie where Colin Firth plays the gay dude. (I have no problem with gay dudes, I just really like my mind to think Colin Firth likes the chicks...chicks like me:)

Dollhouse felt like a Nikita kind of thing, which I liked. Plus I liked Buffy til the finale and Angel til they made (view spoiler)[Spike a ghost (hide spoiler)]. Whatever, it was okay. I liked it at first and marathoned it, then it got weird and I lost interest. Never have finished.

Books? If I liked/loved something I'd give most things (in genre I'm interested in) a try. If I hated something you wrote...yeah, you probably lost me forever.