Mad Men
Breaking Bad
Lost
Damages
Dexter
Big Love
House

Lead Actor in a Drama

Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Hugh Laurie, House
Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Simon Baker, The Mentalist

Lead Actress in a Drama

Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Glenn Close, Damages
Sally Field, Brothers and Sisters
Mariska Hargitay, Law and Order: SVU
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
Holly Hunter, Saving Grace

Lead Actor in a Comedy

Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men
Tony Shalhoub, Monk
Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords

Lead Actress in a Comedy

Toni Collette, United States of Tara
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine
Sarah Silverman, The Sarah Silverman Program
Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds
Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?

Best Reality Competition

The Amazing Race
American Idol
Dancing With the Stars
Project Runway
Top Chef

Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series

The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Late Show With David Letterman
Real Time With Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

William Shatner, Boston Legal
Christian Clemenson, Boston Legal
Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
William Hurt, Damages
Michael Emerson, Lost
John Slattery, Mad Men

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Rose Byrne, Damages
Sandra Oh, Grey’s Anatomy
Chandra Wilson, Grey’s Anatomy
Dianne Wiest, In Treatment
Hope Davis, In Treatment
Cherry Jones, 24

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Kevin Dillon, Entourage
Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
Rainn Wilson, The Office
Tracy Morgan, 30 Rock
Jack McBrayer, 30 Rock
Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daisies
Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live
Kristin Wiig, Saturday Night Live
Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock
Vanessa William, Ugly Betty
Elizabeth Perkins, Weeds

one of the funniest 3 minutes I’ve seen

[J.D.]
Let’s face the facts about me and you,
A love unspecified.
Though I’m proud to call you “Chocolate Bear,”
The crowd will always talk and stare.

[Turk]
I feel exactly those feelings, too
And that’s why I keep them inside.
‘Cause this bear can’t bear the world’s disdain,
And sometimes it’s easier to hide,
Than explain our

[J.D. and Turk]
Guy love,
That’s all it is,
Guy love,
He’s mine, I’m his,
There’s nothing gay about it in our eyes.

[Turk]
You ask me ’bout this thing we share,

[J.D.]
And he tenderly replies,

[Turk]
It’s guy love

[J.D. and Turk]
Between two guys.

[Turk]
We’re closer than the average man and wife,

[J.D.]
That’s why our matching bracelets say Turk and J.D.

[Turk]
You know I’ll stick by for the rest of my life.

[J.D.]
You’re the only man who’s ever been inside of me.

[Turk]
Whoa, I just took out his apendix.

[J.D.]
There’s no need to clarify,

[Turk]
Oh no?

[J.D.]
Just let it grow more and more each day.
It’s like I married my best friend,

[Turk]
But in a totally manly way.

[J.D. and Turk]
Let’s go!
It’s guy love,
Don’t compromise,
The feeeling of some other guy,
Holding up your heart,
Into the sky.

[J.D.]
I’ll be there to care through all the lows.

[Turk]
I’ll be there to share the highs.

[J.D. and Turk]
It’s guy love,
Between two guys.

[J.D.]
And when I say, “I love you, Turk,”
It’s not what it impies.

[J.D. and Turk]
It’s guy love
Between
Two
Guys

i am one of the world’s greatest business minds

You don’t, believe me? Watch this!

Award Overview
After an exhaustive search spanning thousands of nominees from five continents, the International Collective Council of Excellence has announced this year’s World’s Greatest Business Mind to universal acclaim and fanfare.

The decision was unanimous despite the fact the world-class shortlist comprised such well-known names as Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, Bruce Wayne, George Soros, and that kid who invented Facebook.

sway – a music meme

The Rules for the MEME are:

1. Put your Music Player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
I’ll Be (Edwin McCain) – Does this say that I haven’t decided yet of who or what I’m gonna be/

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A BOY?
Living to Love You (Sarah Connor) – I am a very, very lucky woman if I could find someone who will dedicate his life to me.

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Yellow (Coldplay) – Yellow is the color of sunshine. It’s associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy. The opposite is what I’m feeling.

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
Famous Last Words (Jars of Clay Cover) – I always have the last words.

WHAT’S YOUR MOTTO?
Breakdown (Jack Johnson) – Not a good sign.

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Somewhere Only We Know (Keane) – uhmmmm

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Who Am I (Casting Crowns) –

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Whiskey Lullaby (Brad Paisley) – Whoaah! I’m not an alcoholic!

WHAT IS 2 + 2?
Stigmatized (The Calling)…And all this time I thought it was 4!

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
The Scientist (Coldplay) – I don’t have any scientist friends. Just geeks.

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
The One I’m Waiting For (Relient K) – Waiting is what I’m good at.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Lips of an Angel (Hinder) –

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Savin’ Me (Nickelback) – Hope he is the one who’ll save me from becoming a spinster.

WHAT WILL/DID YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
How Could An Angel Break My Heart (Toni Braxton) – not a good sign.

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Augustana (Boston) – the lyrics are very fitting
In the light of the sun, is there anyone? Oh it has begun…
Oh dear you look so lost, eyes are red and tears are shed,
This world you must’ve crossed… you said…

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Counting Blue Cars (Dishwalla) – I swear I’m not doing this.

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
With Arms Wide Open (Creed) – I hate hugs.

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Calling All Angels (Train) – Yes, I’m quite powerful. Please don’t tell anyone that I can do that.

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
Signal Fire (Snow Patrol) –

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd) – Numb of my whining and arguing.

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Sway (Bic Runga)

Go on. Be a Tiger

I was never a golf fan. Heck, I don’t even know anything about the sports and I don’t have any plans of learning it. But ironic as it is, Tiger Woods is one of my favorite athletes. No, I’m not talking about his golfing skills. I’m talking about the man that he is. Calm, collected, a picture of superb health, a good father to Sam and Charlie and husband to Elin.

Currently reading: The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif

Amazon.com Review

Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love is a massive family saga, a story that draws its readers into two moments in the complex, troubled history of modern Egypt. The story begins in 1977 in New York. There Isabel Parkman discovers an old trunk full of documents–some in English, some in Arabic–in her dying mother’s apartment. Incapable of deciphering this stash by herself, she turns to Omar al-Ghamrawi, a man with whom she is falling in love. And Omar directs her in turn to his sister Amal in Cairo.

Together the two women begin to uncover the stories embedded in the journal of Lady Anna Winterbourne, who traveled to Egypt in 1900 and fell in love with Sharif Pasha al-Barudi, an Egyptian nationalist. To their surprise, they stumble across some unsuspected connections between their own families. Less surprising, perhaps, is the persistence of the very same issues that dogged their ancestors: colonialism, Egyptian nationalism, and the clash of cultures throughout the Middle East. The past, however, does offer some semblance of omniscience:

That is the beauty of the past; there it lies on the table: journals, pictures, a candle-glass, a few books of history. You leave it and come back to it and it waits for you–unchanged. You can turn back the pages, look again at the beginning. You can leaf forward and know the end. And you tell the story that they, the people who lived it, could only tell in part.

With its multiple narratives and ever-shifting perspectives, The Map of Love would seem to cast some doubt on even the most confident historian’s version of events. Yet this subtle and reflective tale of love does suggest that the relations between individuals can (sometimes) make a difference. “I am in an English autumn in 1897,” Amal confesses at one point, “and Anna’s troubled heart lies open before me.” Here, perhaps, is a hint about how we should read Soueif’s staggering novel, using words as a means to travel through time, space, and identity. –Vicky Lebeau

I haven’t gotten past the first 100 pages yet but so far, so good.

song of the moment: Tamia – Almost

Forgive me for I’m acting like a half-baked drama queen.

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