10 Reasons Why Garret Dillahunt Is Awesome

Hey Guys,

I have been a huge fan of this guys for years. I thought he was hilarious in Raising Hope and  incredibly terrifying in Deadwood. It wasn’t until after I started watching more of his stuff that I realized how awesome he actually is. Because I just finished weeks of binge watching Justified and Deadwood with my husband and sister I feel the need to present my top ten reasons why Garret Dillahunt (who I think is incredibly underrated) is awesome.

TEN REASONS WHY GARRET DILLAHUNT IS AWESOME

#10. The man pulls off a beard. I promised myself this post would have nothing to do with his appearance. I am kinda too old to gush about good looking celebrities I will save that for another day. Even though I promised myself I wouldn’t I had to break that promise just a little bit. I respect a good beard. I know it’s not easy to grow a good beard and I know not everyone can pull them off. Now I have to give props to Garret Dillahunt for rocking a respectable good looking beard. It’s the kinda beard that makes you root for the bad guy (cough… Ty Walker).

#9. Good guy Garret Dillahunt kills it on Instagram. I am not a huge twitter user, I go on Facebook occasionally but Instagram is my jam. I hate to admit how much I actually am on Instagram but I love it. I love it so much I started a second Instagram specifically for this blog. What I am getting at is that after watching Justified, Deadwood and fangirling with my sister over how awesome the guy is he liked my picture. Can I say that again guys…. HE LIKED MY PICTURE. I screen capped it for proof.

   

Not only he is known for liking pictures, he also posts amazing pictures. The man posts a ton of behind the scene photos that fans like me can nerd out over. The guy kills the Instagram game.

   

#8. He is supportive of other actors. We live in a world where it is easy to bring people down. Garret Dillahunt seems to take every chance including his own Instagram to support his fellow actors.

#7. He is married to Michelle Hurd. Michelle is an actress best known for her roles in 90210, The Glades, Gossip Girl, ER, and Law and Order. The woman is a badass in her own right. She has 56 credits on her IMDB and shows no sign of slowing down.

#6. He is part of the best tv marriage. I am a sucker for a good fictional married couple. I love Homer and Marge and I adore Fred and Wilma. That being said most television shows these days don’t have super realistic ideas about marriage or love (I’m sorry that sentence sounded old. I felt old writing it). Burt and Virgina Chance are the ideal couple. They have their struggles but they always make it through and at the end of the day their marriage is better for it.

It helps that the chemistry between Garret Dillahunt and Martha Plimpton is in its own right amazing.

Both of them are incredible but for me the best parts of that show were the interactions between the two of them.

#5. He was in a Ingrid Michaelson video. I have loved Ingrid Michaelson since the first time I heard You and I. She is the soul reason I tried learning the ukeule. She is amazing but I will talk about her in a future post. Her video for Time Machine is filled with some amazing cameo’s like Rainn Wilson, Donald Faison, Matt Jones, and more. One of those awesome cameo’s is Garret Dillahunt doing what appears to be some unusual karate behind her on a beach. Who doesn’t love a guy who is willing to dance in the water for a cool chick?

#4. He is a self proclaimed book nerd. When I listened to Garret Dillahunt on the Kevin Pollak Chat Show he talked about his love of books. As a book nerd myself I instantly love anyone who can appreciate a good book. During the podcast he referenced a few of his favourites like Arthur Miller and Cormac McCarthy. I nerded out a bit over that when I realized he has been in two movies based on Cormac McCarthy books.

#3. He is so good he literally has played two characters in one show. No I am not talking about how he was in two different episodes of Law and Order (that doesn’t count). I am talking about the fact that he was so good as Jack McCall on Deadwood he came back a season later as a whole new character Francis Wolcott.

#2. He can play a really good bad guy.  He has played a number of bad guys. My favourite bad guy he has played is Francis Wolcott in Deadwood. I would actually feel nervous when his character was on screen because you never knew what he was capable of. I can not even bring myself to watch Last House On The Left where he plays the primary bad guy because I am a bit of a wuss when it comes to scary movies. He was so good as Ty Walker in Justified in the end you root for him.

#1. He can play a really good guy. Even though he is kind of known for playing the bad guy in most of his work he can actually play a great good guy. There are more then a few examples of this I could mention here but I have to go with my all time favourite. There is an episode of Raising Hope where he scares his son just to get a good hug from him (so many emotions).

When it all comes down to it you don’t need me to convince you that Garret Dillahunt is an amazing actor. You can see it when he plays a sociopath in Deadwood, a cool detective in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, or a pool cleaning grandpa in Raising Hope. The man is incredibly talented and is highly underrated (I think anyways). I can not wait until Hand of God is finally released because I can only imagine a show with him and Ron Perlman combined could possibly top anything we’ve already grown to love him in.

Thanks for reading.

Boo-urns!! Harry Shearer Leaving?

Hey Guys,

I would be surprised if you haven’t already heard the news that Harry Shearer may be leaving the Simpsons. For a die hard fan of the show this is terrible news.

I woke up to this news and guys I have to admit it kinda hit me hard. I love the Simpsons. I was born in 1989 so I literally do not remember a time when this show wasn’t on. Every year when they announce what shows are cancelled I actually feel anxious just because I cant deal living in a world where this show doesn’t.

That being said this morning when I read that Harry Shearer had tweeted saying he was leaving the show I was more then a bit depressed. I had assumed this was final but after reading some more articles it looks like things are up for negotiations. All we can hope is the Internets pouring of support to keep him will cause the creators to give him what he wants.

We can all agree that the show would lose a lot of it’s charm if he was replaced or god forbid if his characters were cut. What would the show be without Flanders, Mr.Burns, Jasper, Smithers, Rainier Wolfcastle, Lenny, Kent Brockman, Skinner and dozens more.

Here’s hoping that this will just be a bad dream for all Simpsons fans.

The Rory Gilmore Challenge Wife Vs. Husband

Hey Guys,

I have been a huge fan of the show The Gilmore Girls for years. I own all the DVDs and can sing the theme song from memory alone. I loved Lorelai and I wanted to be Rory. I am already a huge caffeine addict and I am a die hard book lover I feel like I would fit right in as a Gilmore.

In honor of the beloved fictional character who I longed to be I am committing to finishing the Rory Gilmore Challenge.

I decided to participate in this challenge when I saw it plastered all over Pinterest. If your unfamiliar with the show Rory Gilmore is a bookworm. It is many of the reason fan girls like me love her. She is constantly reading, or at the lest holding a book, or talking about a book if not nose deep in it. She reads so much on the show a few different people have compiled master lists of every book Rory is seen with on the show. Since there are a few lists going around with slightly different titles I’ve chosen the list provided on my favorite website Buzzfeed. You can check out the link yourself below.

All 339 Books Referenced In Gilmore Girls

Now the best part of my challenge is that my husband is going to be doing it with me. Both my husband are huge book lovers we are also super competitive with each other. We are not fighters but in our eight year relationship two of the three times we have fought like I mean screaming fights involved Rory Gilmore and a bad Simpsons Trivia game. For the record I am Pro Rory he is not, it’s a constant source of stress on our relationship. When I told him about this challenge he was quick to join in so now instead of it just being a challenge it’s a race. I fully intend to beat him but I know he is fully intending to beat me. It doesn’t help that he just bought an e-reader.

For our reference I am adding a master list below. We will both be reading some books at the same time and some we will be reading apart. When we finish a book I will cross it off adding his name or mine beside it. Obviously this list is huge and has more then a few very hard reads on it so it is going to take us awhile.

I will cross off the books I have previously read and I will be adding my husbands later. I do really want to do this entire list so depending on how long this takes us if I have time I will go back and reread those crossed off. I will add a small note beside those says read previous to challenge.

Obviously the list is huge so I am not going to post every time one of us finishes a book but I will update you guys every so often. I will also link back to this post for the master list so you can see how were coming along. We will also update you with whoever the current and final winner is.

If you have any questions or thoughts on the challenge let me know. If you decide to try this one out I would love to hear how your doing with it.

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THE RORY GILMORE CHALLENGE MASTER LIST

1. 1984 by George Orwell                                                                                                                                  2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
9. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
13. Atonement by Ian McEwan
14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
16. Babe by Dick King-Smith
17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
21. Beloved by Toni Morrison
22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
23. The Bhagava Gita
24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy                                                            27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley                                                                                                  28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
30. Candide by Voltaire
31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
32. Carrie by Stephen King
33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
35. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
36. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
37. Christine by Stephen King
38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
41. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
48. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
52. Cujo by Stephen King
53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon                                     54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende                                                                                               55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
57. The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown
58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
61. Deenie by Judy Blume
62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
64. The Divine Comedy by Dante
65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
66. Don Quixote by Cervantes
67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
73. Eloise by Kay Thompson
74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
75. Emma by Jane Austen
76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
79. Ethics by Spinoza
80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves                                                                    81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende                                                                                                                       82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
83. Extravagance by Gary Krist
84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
92. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald
94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo                                                                                             107. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy                                                                                    108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
112. The Graduate by Charles Webb
113. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
114. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
115. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
116. The Group by Mary McCarthy
117. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
121. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
123. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
124. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
125. Henry V by William Shakespeare
126. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
128. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
129. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
130. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
131. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
132. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer                                                                               133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
134. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
135. Howl by Allen Ginsberg
136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
137. The Iliad by Homer
138. I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres
139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
140. Inferno by Dante
141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton
144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
146. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
153. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence
154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke                                                                           159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
161. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
162. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
163. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
164. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
165. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
166. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
167. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
169. The Love Story by Erich Segal
170. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
172. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
173. Marathon Man by William Goldman
174. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
177. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
178. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
179. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken
180. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
181. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
182. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
183. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
184. Moby Dick by Herman Melville                                                                                                            185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
186. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
187. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
188. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
190. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
191. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
192. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
194. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken
195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
196. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
197. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
204. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
206. Night by Elie Wiesel
207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan
209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski                                                                              211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
212. Old School by Tobias Wolff
213. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
214. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
217. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
218. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
219. Othello by Shakespeare
220. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
222. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
223. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
224. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
227. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
228. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
229. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
230. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
231. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
232. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
233. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
234. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
235. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
237. Property by Valerie Martin238. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
239. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
240. Quattrocento by James Mckean
241. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
242. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers
243. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
244. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
246. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
248. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
250. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
251. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
252. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
253. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
254. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
255. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
256. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
257. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
258. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
260. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
261. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum                                                                                        265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
270. Selected Hotels of Europe
271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
272. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
273. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
275. Sexus by Henry Miller
276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
277. Shane by Jack Shaefer
278. The Shining by Stephen King
279. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
280. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
281. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut
282. Small Island by Andrea Levy
283. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
284. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
286. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
288. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
289. Songbook by Nick Hornby
290. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
291. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning                                                   292. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
293. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
294. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
296. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
297. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams
298. Stuart Little by E. B. White
299. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
300. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
301. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
302. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
303. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
304. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
305. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
306. Time and Again by Jack Finney
307. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
308. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
310. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
312. The Trial by Franz Kafka
313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
315. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
316. Ulysses by James Joyce
317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
318. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe                                                                               319. Unless by Carol Shields
320. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
323. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
327. Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten
328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
331. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
332. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
333. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
334. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
336. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

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Fox Cancels The Mindy Project

Hey Guys,

I love Mindy Kaling. I have loved her since she slapped Michael Scott on the office. Who didn’t love a good Kelly Kapoor interview sequence. I made sure my sister knew how badly I wanted her book as a Christmas present. I finished it the day after boxing day. I knew about and looked forward to the Mindy project before it aired. I watched the premier the night it first aired and was instantly hooked. I will fist fight anyone who doesn’t agree that pilot is one of the best ever made. I have and will always be a huge Mindy Kaling fan.

Now that you are all aware of my love for the spectacular lady let me get to the point of this post.

HOW THE HELL DID THE MINDY PROJECT GET CANCELLED!!

How does a show that has an incredible cult following get axed. I don’t mean to insult anyone out there but how does a show like izombie get renewed but TMP gets cancelled. Who is running Fox and who hurt them?

I am sure Fox is kicking themselves seeing the huge amount of back lash they are getting online for someones huge mistake. If you haven’t already tweeted about it using #TheMindyProject or #HuluSaveMindy you should probably get on that.

I am not going to write about the chance the show might live on Hulu. I guess I lied and totally wrote about it there. This post is not to convince you or anyone else to watch the show or try to defend it online it is strictly for me to grieve the show that was always way too good for Fox.

Ten Reasons Why Will Chase is Distracting.

Today I am currently job hunting. As those of you know how that goes there’s only so many times you can go through the job searching sites before you need to Google how old your favorite movie star is. Today I was doing just that when I needed to know how old Will Chase is. That like most things on the internet was a bad idea because it instantly sent me into an internet rabbit hole.

I was first introduced to Will Chase when he made his first appearance on Nashville. As a musical nerd I am a bit ashamed to admit I haven’t heard of him before. If you haven’t been lucky enough to call yourself a fan hopefully this list makes you check out some of his work.

10 REASONS WHY WILL CHASE IS DISTRACTING 

10. He dated Debra Messing. Umm .. so your telling me that Grace met her Will and it didn’t work out. I am glad I learned of this after they broke up or that news would be much more upsetting.

9. His Instagram. Specifically his pictures with Oliver Hudson. I have to note I also love Oliver Hudson from before he was on Nashville but fans of the show know he’s kind of an ass on the show. Oliver Hudson does an amazing job of playing the bad guy and Will Chase does an amazing job of reminding us that in real life he is probably a nice guy.

8. His duet with Sara Evans. He did a duet with Sara Evans on Nashville called Put My Heart Down. It’s originally one of her songs but was added to the show as a duet. It is amazing and will get stuck in your head for days. I listened to this one on repeat a little too much.

7. He played Roger in Rent. I have loved rent. I have watched the movie more then a few times. Take Me or Leave Me might just be my favourite shower song. How did I not know he was Roger?

6. He was on Smash. I honestly had no interest in watching this show until I found out Will Chase was in it. I feel like this is going to be the next show I marathon watch.

5. Since he is a broadway superstar he gets a list attention at the Tony awards. I suggest searching you tube for the video of Neil Patrick Harris teasing him at the Tonys. Nashville fans will appreciate the appearance from Ms. Sadie Stone herself.

 4. Luke Wheeler. No one else could play Luke Wheeler like Will Chase. He is the definition of a male country star and I dig it. I was so worried he would be one of those guest stars that disappeared after a few episodes. He is the best thing that happened to that show. His acting chops in this show are unbelievable. I may have marathoned watched the first two seasons of this show.

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3. Luke and Rayna. Most Nashville fans disagree with me and are happy these two are over but I was so upset when she called off their wedding. He was so sweet to her and Deacon is so unstable. He really loved her and every time he gets emotional well singing I feel so many feelings. This still upsets me but I am pumped for this potential Sadie hook up. Team Luke forever.

2. His singing voice. Obviously this guy is incredibly talented. He wouldn’t be where he is if he wasn’t. I definitely suggest that you take some time to go on you tube and check out his stuff. Spotify has all the Nashville singles so check it out. I may have over listened to If I Drink This Beer and I am currently on the new single I Can’t Help My Heart.

1. This is not Will Chase’s fault but the internet is the number one reason why he is distracting. This blog post is a perfect example. I spent an hour on this post looking up Will Chase on every site imaginable instead of cleaning or doing my english homework. For some reason I can not google this guy without spending thirty minutes on Tumblr or Youtube.

Whatever reason brought you to this blog post, if you were or weren’t a fan of Will Chase I hope you enjoyed this post. If you were a fan I’m sure you can relate and if you weren’t hopefully you will be.

Excuse me well I go look up Will Chase on Tumblr.