I do think the much more positive what-if is, "What if we considered other people's bodies none of our fucking business & didn't consider them an appropriate topic of conversation?"

If I had some terrible last name from my father, or anything but affection for my father, I would be glad of the opportunity to change. As it is, my first and last name run together well, and I spent a lot of my formative years known as Firstname Lastname due to other kids having the same first, and my dad is my…

My big learning-curve moment was when I learned not to spend more time and energy defending myself than the people attacking me spent on their bit. I used to get disproportionately bent out of shape by one- or two-word put downs. They're just so extra-disheartening. Now, for every "Wrong." I just put "Unconvinced!"…

I had nearly this same thing happen to me when I was about 7, and I think that was the moment I realized that I was expected to be in control of my face all the time. Fuck that woman who said that to me, and the one who did that to you, too.

Maybe 4 outfits with any youth or fun in them, tops. The whole rest of the collection seems made for the matronly set. Which is fine, every demographic deserves to have well-designed clothes made for them, I just have a couple of decades left before I hit 60, and I have yet to feel like dressing like it.

This Paris FW is throwing me for a loop - The designers I usually adore aren't doing it for me, and I'm finding myself intrigued by people whose work isn't usually my favorite, like this whole collection. I'm in love with everything with the circle print on it, and I'm really feeling the crazy makeup. I do think…

If the studios can knock off McQueen for the movies, why can't mass-market knock of McQueen for the plebes? I'm not saying I want to see Forever 21 does McQueen, that would be hideous, but surely there could be a pared-down Saxs/Neiman Marcus version?

I actually reached out to Progress Kentucky's facebook page after learning about this from ThinkProgress. This was their reply:

Thank christ I thought I was the only one. Microwave cooking is the only way I've ever found to get bacon that is both tender and crisp (you know, where if you bend it slowly you can bend it in half without breaking, but if you go fast it snaps in half), with even the pure fat crunchy and delicious, and also not soggy…

Surely not. And speculating about you'd do in a terrifying life-or-death situation is pretty meaningless in terms of what you'd actually do. It did make me feel pretty perfect to find I was on the same page as my favorite person, though.

Yeah. I realized after I posted that what I actually felt about the Rancic quote was only tangentially related to the anecdote it brought to mind, and I've edited it since. What I think is actually important is that your relationship needs very different things than your infant child, and that prioritizing one doesn't…

I knew my girl friend was the only person I'd ever consider having kids with when one time, I told her that if we had kids and there was a fire in our house, I would get her out first and the kids after. And she said, "Of course! We can have more kids. I can't have another you."

I really do think you can sometimes find that magic pair that break in nicely and are comfortable. I wore one pair of 3.5 inch heels almost every day in high school, and while I'm not going to claim that they were as comfy as sneakers, they certainly weren't giving me blisters or sore toes.

Given the way this week is going, I was convinced you were going to tell us the towels were made of horse.

The Sean thing really struck me, since from K-5th grade there were 3 "Shawn"s in my class, spelled Sian, Sean, and Shaun. So it never occurred to me before hearing that story that it might be an "odd" name elsewhere. Even when I lived in the UK, there was a whole world of new or unusual names to learn, and they're our…

It's weird thinking about what's "normal" in different places - I grew up in an ethnically-mixed area near Washington DC, so a lot of different types of names were passingly common. I had a friend who grew up on Air Force bases both overseas and in America, and she said that in one of her mother's kindergarten classes…

Double reply, apologies.

That is my understanding, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be upsetting. And those of my friends who have religious dietary restrictions match those of my friends with cultural restrictions in the amount of disgust the thought of eating the forbidden thing inspires - I have one Ethiopian friend who I'm convinced…

All this has done is made me glad I don't have a strong religious or cultural imperative not to eat certain animals. One other thing these investigations have turned up is how much pork is in things that are labeled as beef, and while I know very conservative Jews and Muslims are careful to buy meat that has been…

I'm so glad Anna Karenina won for best costumes. I loved every second of that movie, and was absolutely shocked that it didn't get more buzz and nominations, but truly, if it HAD to only get one Oscar, it should have been this one.