Sort-of-related to breakup of one of the most WTF couples ever: I always speculated that the douchy artist Marnie dated on Girls was based on Terry Richardson, since Marnie is sort-of based on Audrey Gelman and Booth Jonathan sounds awfully similar to Terry Richardson. (Plus they're both gross douchebags who're full…

Weird pop culture knowledge high five! I also know way to much about random movies (and I'm pretty sure I know everyone's name in One Direction.), but I didn't know this so far. So - great, even lesser space in my brain for important stuff like "WTF is going on in Syria", "what's the NSA again?" and world economics.

Yes! (Unless you really, really hate romcoms or any kind of romance movie.) The great thing about Love Actually is that it's a bunch of little stories loosely tied together is that even there's something for everyone (or at least most people) in there. I love Keira Kneightley's, Laura Linney's and Bill Nighy's…

I don't have a chart, but I think it's save to say that you can basically move the "political center" a few inches to the left when comparing the US and Central Europe. Like, it's not just that the German CDU is way more liberal (in the US sense of the word, in Germany "liberal" means basically "libertarian" - it's…

Wowza, exactly. Even the baby's can't help but stare like: "Wow... So handsome. So tall. Look at those arms"

Did you by any chance see the last episode of The Mindy Project? If not, you should, because a) it's awesome, and b) "Santa Baby" is part of Mindy's Christmas Party Sex Trap (their wording, not mine), and there are some pretty great jokes on "Santa Baby".

When I was 14, I went to a new dentist after back-to-school shopping - binders, notebooks, pens, etc. - and the dentist asked me if I had been shopping for my child. So, I was 14 years old, I didn't have any child with me, and the guy assumed I had a school-age child (that I would have conceived at ... 7???). His…

They have a "reality" show called "Nachbarschaftsstreit" (which ~ translates to Neighborhood fight) in Germany. It's as awful as you'd expect it to be.

That sounds horrible - I have major respect for anyone who juggles work and school - as a full-time grad student, I wouldn't know how to deal with the pressure of work and grad school, let alone with a flu and heartless, unreasonable a@%hole-professors. Do you think you'll be able to get the assignment done anyways?…

Just imdb-ed the movie and apparently Anna Kendrick, Alia Shawkat and Matthew Gray Gubler are also in the movie. So: Yay!

Ugh, I feel you - my immune system is the worst and I get the flu or at least severe colds about every other month during the winter, and I'm way behind on my Master's Thesis because of my last cold and I now think my sinus infection might be chronic. What I learned from this, though, is that 99 % of all profs are…

I still find the fact that Kevin Spacey tweets and especially that he takes selfies really weird, because I always pictured him as the type of person too busy reading The Economist or re-reading Shakespeare's poetry while drinking 50-year-old Scotch to participate in anything remotely pop-cultury. It's like finding…

Product name pitch: TomTomTom.

I think Josh Hutcherson would support this. This is from his Out Mag interview:

I get where you're coming from, but it's just not Katniss as a character that is worth celebrating/debating/analysing..., but also the gender dynamics, in particular the relationship dynamics between her and Gale and Peeta. (They matter! Like, no matter how awesomely strong and independent women become, men also have…

I think it's funny that three main leads in the Hunger Games were cast despite their looks - Liam Hemsworth and JLaw as brunettes, Josh Hutcherson as a blonde. I disagree with you, though - I think Josh Hutcherson looks great as a blonde and is awesome as Peeta acting-wise. (I really like the movies and the casting,…

Wow. That sounds like a crazy, interesting, exhausting anthropological field study. Also: Exchange student as in college student of age, or as in 16-year old high school student? (In any case: Ewww.) Don't they just usually stay for a year?

Oh, I love your user name. Automatically pictured April dressed as Janet Snakehole singing along to Tim McGraw at a Taylor Swift concert (Ann and Leslie probably dragged her there, but she's secretly a really big fan), which really makes my day. Virtual Parks-high-five!

Yeah, I'm a poor grad student, and I try to be green, but I would never ever ever ever buy a used mattress from a stranger - partly 'cause it's icky, but also because I'm really, really scared of getting bedbugs. I once slept on only a mattress for a year because I couldn't afford a bed and a new mattress and I…

Just bought tickets for Taylor Swift's Red Tour (she's touring in Europe in February) for one of my BFF's (to quote Mindy Lahiri: "Best Friends isn't a person, it's a tier!") and me as both a birthday and christmas present to her (her birthday is really close to christmas, so I just get her one big present).