Idly reading a New York piece in which Mary Gordon and A.M. Homes interview each other about the experience of writing “mother books,” I found two fantastic quotations from Homes that made me sit up …

…Boo. I was thinking to myself after the last ep that I was surprised Debra went home last week, because she’s the kind of comedian that I don’t really care for but that LCS audiences …

I more or less spent the day with Elvis today — blogging three of his movies and watching the E! True Hollywood Story about his last days in between.I don’t really like his music, so …

“Will Power Trip”:

Joe passive-aggressives that he thought “the whole point of giving up the big corporate job for the family business was” — he nods after the kids — “you know.” Well, yeah. Couldn’t have …

Prospective Replacements For Bob Barker On The Price Is Right:

Bob Vila
PROS: Hiring another dude named Bob could ease the transition for announcer Burton Richardson; Vila’s home-renovation expertise is handy for contestants unsure of how …

“Family Values”:

You know that scene in Zoolander when they introduce David Bowie to judge the walk-off, and they freeze-frame on him with a subtitle reading “David Bowie” and a chord from “Let’s Dance”? This is …

[Updated 6/2/07 with honorable mention entries.]
Below, the winner of the “An Imprisoned Fish” mini-contest. The entry contains all the hallmarks of the SA style: randomly capitalized and quaintly hyphenated words and phrases (“Champagne Punch,” “boy-friend”); …

“If PBS Had A Movie-Awards Gala…”

A star-studded, faintly mothball-scented evening of battles and ball gowns, the Hissies — hosted by Doris Kearns Goodwin, who will allegedly write her own material — celebrate the epic stories …

Holly’s incredulity switches to anger as she snaps that Rebecca “could have been in a ditch, or anywhere,” and can I just ask why the imagined-demise location of choice among mothers is a ditch? Because …

The headline: “An Imprisoned Fish”
The deadline: May 10, 5 PM
The rules: same as last time
The prizes: a gift certificate from Brooklyn Industries for the winner; swag for the runners-up