They also had the best coverage of the Laci Peterson murder.

I've been thinking about reading it - glad to know you like it, maybe that will be my next vacation read!

There aren't many guarantees in the business world, but this - and casket sales - seem to be the exception!

I'd give anything to see this exhibit, but alas, I live across the country. I love all things about mourning rituals, and wish we could incorporate some back into our own culture. Grieving people need to be treated gently, and these kinds of outward signs seem to useful to me - you see someone wearing a certain color…

Agreed - I'm concerned about storyline changes and how that will impact the score.

Actually, Meryl Streep has some experience as a singing actor, from the time she was young. She was the lead in "Oklahoma!" in high school, and was in the famed production of "The Frogs" (score by Sondheim) that was staged in the Yale swimming pool in the early 70s. She did a pretty good job in the Prairie Home…

I thought it was going to be a disaster, too, but now I'm much more hopeful about it. ITW is not my favorite Sondheim show ("Follies," please!) but I'm pretty excited about this now!

That sounds like the kind of thing my husband would do. I'm not proud of that.

It's only Sunday, but I can promise this is the greatest thing I'll see all week.

My grandparents were wonderful to a young pizza waitress who dropped a hot pizza all over my grandmother's hand (somehow it flipped over when the waitress was putting it on the table, cut to my grandmother peeling burning strings of cheese and pepperoni off her bare hand). They paid the whole bill and even tipped the…

Oh nooooo! I loved this book! My favorite part was how they drank from the stream and then realized as time went on that they just...wouldn't...die. Also loved how the book made it very clear that living forever would be THE WORST.

Thank you! I hated this book, and am still baffled when people name it as one of their childhood favorites. I absolutely could not get through it, it was so boring!

The cutest. Pure 7 year old joy, right there.

I love this video - such pure reactions from the kids! Not only did the children learn that it's safe and fun to try weird food, but hopefully that one kid will remember that he was expected to take his hat off when indoors. With any luck, he'll pass this little etiquette nugget to the indoor-hat-wearing yahoo adults…

I'm all for bugging cats (I have four, and it's fun to mess with them), but this just strikes me as really mean. I hope they all shit in his shoes.

Met my husband 9.5 years ago on Match, just celebrated our 9 year anniversary!

Congratulations, Alison! I've been a fan since I started reading Dykes to Watch Out For almost 30 years ago!!!!!

This is a good reminder, because my idiot cats do nothing but sleep, eat, and ignore me when I implore them to get that one bug on the floor for God's sake.

Outstanding Wallace and Gromit reference. Thank you.

It never occurred to me to be hurt if I wasn't invited to a wedding of someone to whom I am not close. Really. Who gets mad because an acquaintance didn't invite them to a wedding?