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TGIF | Which Smurf do you most identify with?

Happy Friday!!  Perhaps you are smarter than me and you already knew this, but the Smurfs are Belgian!  You could not imagine my (perhaps infantile) delight when I stumbled upon this statue.

Since I'm already writing a post about Smurfs, I doubt I'll hurt what credibility I have left by mentioning what this made me think of...do I have any fellow Bones fans out there?  Ok, well, probably not, but anyway - there's this episode from Season 3, where they end up kind of by accident at Brennan's high school reunion.  (Well, not really by accident.  There was a murder nearby, which is why they were there in the first place...I could give more of a full recap, but I think that this might be better.)  Anyway!  Brennan tells Booth her most embarrassing high school story, about how a boy she had liked stuck a Brainy Smurf on her locker, humiliating her.  Booth doesn't get it at first, but then does later, and it's really sweet...okay, okay, so maybe I should stop while I'm ahead, but if you like Bones, you'll get it.

via http://bonestheory.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/in-search-of-a-hero/

Never Apologize! Never Explain!

I'm currently sitting in one of my favorite cafés here in Columbus, sipping a chai and hand-tacking some ties that I brought with me.  Some women a couple of tables away from me are discussing how they are here to toast Julia Child and that they do it every year on her birthday.  Apparently, today would have been her 100th birthday.  I found a nice article that was in the Times in '04, should you be interested.

Like most people my age, I fell in love with her on account of Julie & Julia.  I loved the book, and even though the movie wasn't as wickedly funny, who doesn't love Meryl Streep?

Bon appetit!