It's the same shade we dyed our hair in high school to get around the weird color ban, because it was technically red.

Oh yes, there is a lot of smile painting!

Unfortunately we live with his parents, but once we can afford a place of our own we certainly won't be extending overnight invitations to them!

Unfortunately we live with my in-laws, so we don't really have much choice. I'm pretty desperate to move out but we can't afford it. I certainly don't plan on inviting them when we do have a place of our own, and we've already decided we're not going back to their place if invited.

Yeah, thankfully they left shortly after lunch today.

I'm from north Louisiana, not New Orleans, but we still celebrated it when I was a kid and I miss it. Now I live in England where all they do is make pancakes. Pancakes are a Sunday food, not a once a year treat!

Ugh, fucking in-laws. My sister-in-law and her husband were over this weekend and they were really hostile to Mr. Elle for some reason. Last night he told them a story about how we were almost side-swiped by a bus last month, told in a way that was meant to be humorous, and didn't blame the bus driver. Well, BIL's…

*sigh*

When I was a kid living in Louisiana it seemed like every other exit on I-20 had a really dodgy looking porn shop. Usually a former gas station.

Layers, basic colors that you can mix and match easily, invest in packing cubes, and tightly roll your clothes. And keep heavy things like jeans to a minimum. Wear the heaviest items you want to bring (jeans, sweater, boots, coat) on the plane.

Oof, I feel like I just sat through an episode of Rab C. Nesbitt.

I want to play this clip on a five hour loop for my American friends and family when they go on about "sexy British accents".

I'm not totally sure what you're asking. The first time my parents came to visit me they wanted to visit London on their last day and seriously misjudged a) how long it would take to get there; and b) just how little they could do in a day. I only tagged along to spend a little more time with them. We basically just…

I don't really get the obsession with the Hetty Wainthropp-esque ideal. When I went through my Anglophile phase it was all about the dirty, grimy punk and alternative comedy!

But there seems to be a special kind of delusion around British men and British culture.

As an American living in Devon, I hate the UK=London thing. Everyone back home keeps asking me how things are in London. I've probably spent a grand total of twelve hours in London.

Other than the initial criticism of the lack of diversity (almost entirely before the first season aired) Jez has been very pro-Dunham. At least until this Photoshop bounty nonsense.

Belle and Tiana both married princes. I think Mulan is the only one that isn't a princess by either birth or marriage, but she is still a part of the Disney Princess line.

That artwork reminds me of the "Almost There" sequence from The Princess and the Frog, so I'm already looking forward to this!

I don't Twitter, but several years ago I was a regular on the Beastie Boys message board. Adam Yauch used to come on and talk to us sometimes and once he responded to a conversation I was having with a board friend and we started freaking out about it over IM.