The Non-Judging Breakfast Club

Dear Jenny,

Did you see our girl Lisa Loeb on Gossip Girl? Does it age us to refer to Lisa Loeb as "our girl"? Wait. Do we even like her? I know that we loved #1 Single. I think I used to hate that "Stay" song, except I know it by heart -- how? -- and I really enjoyed hearing it at Rufus's concert last night. I might even get it from iTunes, because -- not old!

In any case, singer-songwriters of our collective past aside, pretty great episode last night: not as pop-culturally funny as last week's* but well-plotted and satisfying. We did not yet get Chuck + Blair vs. Georgina (next week?), but we did get Blair, in Great Friend mode, vs. Lily, in Awful Mother mode. I finally decided that I like what Michelle Trachtenberg is doing with the Georgina role. I was hating Georgina in general, but this week she seemed to slip over from hateful nuisance to screaming psychopath (around the point where she tried to bring Serena coffee -- the Hell?), and it turns out Dawnie can do that. I think we should all be glad that Mischa Barton allegedly passed on that role, because Coop? I don't think Coop can do that.

Love,

-- Pete

*Last week's was almost Sherman-Palladinian in its speed and fluency -- I only just remembered that great, throwaway Zac Efron joke.