In the spirit of an anticipated lackadaisical weekend - ann-frank dot diaryland dot com brings you a Newsweek-y type easy to digest and even easier to pass off as a diary entry quotable end of the week recap:

“I don’t why I bothered playing for four hours last night. I can barely take care of myself in real life. And all those virtual-cry babies do is whine and complain anyway. You got to keep them occupied and fed to keep them happy or something I guess. This one family, the parents were always screaming and yelling at each other, which made their kid all nervous and tense, so I had the kid break into the liquor cabinet and get all loaded, because you know, that’s always what makes me feel better,” on my first attempt on kicking it with The Sims PC-style:

“Wait. People are still watching that?” on American Idol

“Holy shit, the Challenger space shuttle crash was 17 years ago? Man, that makes me feel old.” on the first thing to pop into my head during the coverage of this week’s space shuttle Columbia disaster

“Yeah. I hear we’re at orange,” on the color-coded terrormeter threat system.

“Sean Austin’s stumpy little hairy hobbit legs running around in culottes for three hours. Yeah, that’s mesmerizing. ” on LotR: Fellowship of the Ring

“You mean there’s more?” on LotR: The Two Towers

“Smacks a little bit too much of ‘let them eat cake’ if you ask me. You wanna boost the economy, give a wad full of cash to the teenagers. One big end of the season sale at dELiA*s and Hot Topic, it’ll all be back out there circulating like an industrial fan at a fashion shoot,“ on George Bush’s tax stimulus plan that wipes out all federal taxes on stock dividends paid to investors.

“Michael, please keep your baby-dangling ass out of the media for awhile so my generation can gain the proper ironic distance needed to maybe have fun listening to Thriller once again,” on anything Michael Jackson