I think the difference might be you choosing to sexualize yourself among your peers in a way that feels honest and age-appropriate for you vs being aggressively marketed by other people who don't necessarily have your personal best interest at heart to sell you as a particular type of SEXXXY on a global scale for…

Ugh, that does suck. Is it possible to give them a biiiiiig benefit of the doubt and tell yourself they meant the teacher shouldn't have signed the contract agreeing to the bullshit clause just because you shouldn't sign contracts you know you're going to violate, even if that violation is complete and utter fuckery?…

Are they actually eating bacon or just fondly remembering it? Like, once upon a time a neighborhood acquaintance gave us an illegally poached, definitely threatened and possibly endangered abalone for Christmas. I felt terrible but I sometimes wax poetic about how delicious it was even though I'd never eat it again.

I've never met a vegan who wasn't actually a vegan (or admitted to it, at least) but I also only tend to know about other people's eating habits if a) I invite them over and ask or b) they make big sanctimonious deals out of it. The vegans I've know do tend to the big sanctimonious deal side, but maybe that's only…

It sounds like Dave beat her up, but I also have ended up with bruises from getting a drunk person into bed, so either way. What good would it do her to tell her about the ass grab? If you think it will make it better for her in some way —like if she'd leave him because of it— then tell her. If you think it would just…

It depends on the mag. I had pretty wide berth over what I was going to select if I made the look myself, but if it's something being used in an editorial shoot, then it's usually plucked by a wardrobe stylist working under the publication's creative director. Often in major magazines, Condé Nast publications and…

I distinctly remember being a little girl in the eighties and my grandfather FINALLY agreeing to get color TV because he wanted to see the repeat of the Sho-Gun miniseries in its technicolor glory. My grandparents had lived all over Asia, including Japan, for decades and my grandfather LOVED that book.

My tried and true for hot weather cramps based on 12 years in Texas and three in Mexico is a Mexican Coca Cola, three 220mg Aleve (naproxen sodium) and at least one orgasm. The orgasm is key. Even if I'm not in the mood and have to grudge match it out with my clitoris (sometimes it requires penetration too, but not…

When I was a little girl my father took me to visit one of his best friends, a herpetologist in possession of a cobra named Cathy. My father — who has never come across a bad idea he couldn't make worse— decided to have me press my little five year-old nose against the enclosure while he tapped on the glass.

I could alllmost see Queen Máx on there, but there are only two royal fashion goddesses: Sheikha Mozah and real-life Minerva McGonagall, Queen Margarethe of Denmark, who actually designs many of her own gowns.

More chapulines for me!

Chop the head off with a hoe? I am suddenly experiencing a strange combination of fear and admiration for Nonna Faircloth.

such a melodious language

Question: My best friend and I have been pals for sixteen years and in that entire sixteen years, about 90% of the dudes she goes for LOOK JUST LIKE HER BROTHER. I mean *JUST* like her brother. She doesn't look like her brother, she doesn't even LIKE her brother. How do you even bring that up? "So, uh, he's nice. Oh,…

That's really interesting. My grandparents were high school sweethearts and were together close to seventy years. My grandmother died from lung cancer. The day she died my grandfather, who had been Jack LaLanne-healthy and just had an all-clear check up, turned yellow as his kidneys started to go. Nine days later he…

Funny thing is, I swear the Hershey's bars in Mexico taste different. They don't have that strong a tang or maybe because cocoa actually grows here, they can use more of it. It strikes me as funny that two of the most quintessentially American products, the Hershey Bar and the Coca Cola, both taste better in Mexico.

I think it's a matter of what you grew up on. If you grew up on Hershey or other chocolates that rely on the Hershey Process (a way of treating the milk for milk chocolate that produces butyric acid, it's actually really interesting since that process was what allowed for inexpensive mass chocolate production) or…

You're obviously right, but there are also many, many of us who took the long way there. I grew up in an abusive home and was the poster kid for the dad hits mom->mom hits kid->kid kicks dog (or in my case, kid is scathingly mean to everyone because she learned vulnerability will eventually lead getting your face…

I love the idea of a King's Random. Like it's not a boring pile of money; it's a pile of money, plus some ceramic turtle figurines, an ermine cape, an old VHS of Dolly Parton singing Jolene, a piece of string, a recipe pulled off the back of a Miracle Whip container, a scepter, and one pair of argyle socks with the…

When I modeled in the late 90's early 2000's the average plus-size model was a 14-16 with a handful of 12s and an even smaller number of 18s. Now plus size starts at 8, maybe even a 6 with some agencies. So, so SO many plus-size models are straight size (under a size 10) and pad. Padding was incredibly common in my…