I am so tired of wintery white stuff and yet the one thing I liked about it last week was the solitude and quiet that comes with being snowed in...it's not that I don't love people (I do, most of the time!) but that I'm such a foot-in-mouth kind of girl when it comes to talking that I only feel safe by myself...

And speaking of safe, the thought of driving in the snow absolutely terrifies me. I would love to be able to afford one of those tough "survival" winter driving courses that cost over $200. 

Something like this, I suppose:

http://www.winterdrive.com/index.php

Meanwhile there are albums like this beautiful one to keep me going 'til spring:

 

 Sarah Palin is upset about this past Sunday's episode:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/palin-family-says-family-guy-writers-are-heartless-jerks/#preview

Anyone who is the least bit familiar with "Family Guy" would tell you that the writers were actually pretty tame in this episode...in fact, I thought they were fairly respectful and even made a good point about how just because someone has a disability doesn't necessarily mean they are nice and kind as some of us would automatically think. If you compare this episode to the infamous AIDS one or how the writers regularly mock and treat eating disorders with such insensitivity this one is amazingly low-key!

Since I'm really a 19th century girl living in the 21st I found this article in Sunday's New York Times very interesting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/opinion/14epstein.html

 

I can't stand the taste of peeps, but I do think they make for great art!:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/peeps

...Supernatural Hunger...

I've never been so hungry that I would plunge my hands into a vat of boiling french fries and after watching last night's "Supernatural" I now know I never will be. But that horrific little moment from the episode touches on how bad and dangerous hunger can be...and not necessarily a hunger confined to food. In "My Bloody Valentine" the Winchester brothers find out just what happens when Biblical Famine comes to town.

Ever since "Supernatural" introduced a distinctly Christian background to the show (particularly in a Revelations sense) in the fourth season I have been surprisingly caught up in how raw and un-Touched By An Angel-like a Christian-themed show can actually be. There's no worrying here that at least one character is going to light up like a Christmas tree fifty minutes into the program...here we get a more realistic sense of the Bible's darkness...or at least how realistic a show called "Supernatural" can be.

more on this later...about the White Castle burgers...one of the angels on "Supernatural" was chowing down on these for most of the episode...his name is "Castiel" and he's played with charming solemnity by actor Misha Collins: