Hitchens will always be a hero of mine, however, I find I disagree with him on many things. I really dig Amy Schumer. Although she normally performs much bluer than she can on Kimmel here, I think she's hilarious no matter what. For me, it's women like Schuler, Sarah Silverman, Kristen Wiig, Tina Fey, Melissa McCarthy, Ellen Degeneres, Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball (to name just a few), that expose Hitchen's treatise as a puckish exercise in editorial, rather than serious condemnation of a humorless gender.

Maybe I just don't know what's funny.

Music For Sleeping Children - Mikayla and Melissa

>> ^brycewi19:

36 is not "almost 40". (I am trying to convince my 34 year old self something?!)
Melissa Joan Hart still has "got it" in my book!


Fun story.

My kitchen manager at work is 35 years old. (I'm 23). On the day of his 35th birthday he goes "Shit, i'm like, halfway to 40"

I replied, "No Shawn, i'm halfway to 40. You're halfway to 70."

He was not amused.

36 is not "almost 40". (I am trying to convince my 34 year old self something?!)

Melissa Joan Hart still has "got it" in my book!

Academy award winner Melissa Leo. She is great!

Melissa Chan, the reporter in this piece, was recently expelled from China, which only happens rarely.

Melissa needs a toke.

@BoneRemake, you want to laugh tonight? Here ya go. This is hysterical.

Melissa McCarthy. She is just all that.

I know this comment is remix of commentaries from many individuals over the span of forever, but here goes anyway.

I'm not going to defend Hollywood's endless regurgitation of the same material. The dearth of original ideas in that town is appalling. However, if you read Joseph Campbell, other mythologists, and literary experts, you'll know that there are really only a limited number of original stories in the first place. Kirby Ferguson even mentions Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. One author whose name completely escapes me at the moment wrote that there are only about 60 stories - various tragedies, romances, heroic adventures, and even comedies have their roots in basic stories that have been told for millennia. Other experts will say there are fewer stories than that, others will say more, but you get my point. However, it's HOW those stories are retold is what makes them great, mediocre, shitty, etc.

Take the movie The Fighter. It's a classic story of an underdog beating the odds and achieving greatness. In this case it's a true story, but it's a classic. Just ask Rocky. However what made The Fighter great was in the details, especially the acting. Melissa Leo, Amy Adams, and Christian Bale all turned in great performances.

Also George Lucas did take a LOT from other films, but he made the material his own and succeeded wildly with Star Wars. (Then 20 years later he took all that greatness and took a huge fucking dump on it, almost souring me on my love of the originals.)

So I don't mind stories being retold, as long as the filmmakers can make them their own, keep them interesting, and stock them with good actors (not necessarily famous actors, but good actors). I hope Kirby Ferguson touches on this in the third part.

That should be 4 Non Blondes and Melissa Manchester.

The more I see of Savage, the more impressed I am. Articulate, clear, and with a completely uncommon degree of common sense...he's interesting enough to make me wish I was gay (much like Melissa Etheridge makes me wish I was lesbian).

Melissa = A+. Joss = fail.

It is though he is taking cue from televised religious theologists (e.g. Pastor Melissa Scott)... and failing into complete anarcy.

Woman arrested on child cruelty charge
by Jeff Gable

An Alabama woman was arrested Tuesday afternoon after police say she injured a child while dragging it through a store in Rome.

According to Floyd County Jail records:

Melissa Catherine Smith-Means, 37, of Gaylesville, Ala., was arrested by Rome police around 12:30 p.m. She was charged with felony first-degree cruelty to children.

Police say she was observed by customers and employees at a store on Broad Street, dragging a small child around by a backpack leash. The child had visible marks on the neck from the incident.

She remains in jail without bail.