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The 10 Most Popular L&L Articles in August 2009

September 2, 2009
Please allow us to present the top ten articles on our website from the past month. Or don’t, it doesn’t make much of a difference to us.

6 TV Shows I’m Obsessed with Right Now

September 1, 2009
Will your favorite show make the cut? There’s only one way to find out.

European Vacation’s Rusty is Blake Lively’s brother?

August 18, 2009
So I had a dream last night that for some reason involved the son, Rusty aka Russ, from National Lampoon’s European Vacation. I don’t ask for these weird celebrity dreams. And so I looked up a picture of him and in the process took a glance at his biography. It turns out his name is [...]

Liz and Laura’s Finite Playlist: What We’re Listening to Right Now

August 17, 2009
Here it is again, folks, our (sort of) monthly guide to the hottest music out there. And by out there we mean in our apartments…

Did Damien Hirst rip off Radiohead’s “In Rainbows”?

August 14, 2009
I first realized the similarity between these two things ages ago, but for some reason I never posted anything about it. Or maybe I read someone else’s post about it and forgot…if so, I have no idea where. Anyway, while looking through some pictures today, I came across this image of some sort of artwork/flatware [...]

Observations while watching the 2009 Teen Choice Awards

August 11, 2009
I watched those darned Teen Choice Awards last night, and found them to be oddly planned, confusing, and more than a little boring. What the hell is the point of having an awards presentation show when you just haphazardly announce winners in asides throughout like it’s the Technical Oscars? Were those barely-discussed categories not important [...]

Some pretty messed up Scientology revelations

August 5, 2009
A recent article from The St. Petersburg Times offers some of the most compelling evidence yet that Scientology is little more than an abusive cult run by brutish bullies. What else is new, right? But it’s pretty interesting reading.Read the article here!

The 10 Most Popular L&L Articles in July 2009

August 3, 2009
Even though there are far better articles on the site, for some reason this month our fans are gravitating toward these…

20 things middle-aged moms love

July 18, 2009
These are just a few of the things that make moms tick…

Finally! A Ramona movie!

July 17, 2009
Like practically every other woman in the country under 40, I grew up reading Beverly Cleary’s Ramona books. Well finally, Hollywood has stopped ignoring this mostly-untapped cultural resource. That’s right, a Ramona movie is in the works! It’s called Ramona and Beezus, the Beezus being Ramona’s sister Beatrice. It is set to come out on [...]