It’s just our daily proof that no matter what kind of woman you are, everyone will be lining up to take you down. It’s enraging, actually. 

Honestly, as someone who’s had issues with this in the past (haha, who hasn’t?), moving from “you need to love yourself!” to “things are fine.” was a really, really good switch. I’m fine. I don’t need to love my body or whatever, just accept it and treat it well. And having a therapist who let me set that goal (“I…

I came here to say this exactly. Why is Jez suddenly hating on every woman who speaks out on something, regardless of whether it’s a good or bad message?

Man, people really can’t win. Jameela Jamil has been saying mostly the right things for a long time, and backs it up by taking celebrities who hawk dangerous ideas and products to task. So she’s not the first to say these things, does that mean she shouldn’t say them? Or that she deserves this snotty recap of her…

It is INCREDIBLY easy to put your Hulu account on hold for up to 12 weeks at a time. I usually do this over the summer when new episodes aren’t coming out and I’m spending less time inside.

“McAllister went on to suggest that if subscription hopping doesn’t work for you, you could always go to the hq of each of the services and put tacks all over the stairs or rig up the computers so that everyone electrocutes themselves until they give you the subscription for free.”

I have been sitting on a 100K downpayment for four years. Downpayment is not the problem. I cannot/will not buy a 700K house when I only make 50K per year.

I need to know who the black kitty with the firm grasp on the microphone above is, for REASONS. 

A guide to black tie noted that used smoking jackets, particularly of the sash-closure variety (as opposed to frogging), have the risk of coming from a wannabe Playboy who used it as a robe (i.e. w/o anything else on).

I wanted to be Stacey but I was a Mary Anne.

Mine does the same, but sometimes she knows I am just getting up to get water or goto the bathroom and coming right back to bed. If I am up rattling around in the kitchen she then appears and demands breakfast loudly.

My cats are also on this schedule, which makes mornings challenging.

I had a “chocolate wine” once at a local place. It looked and tasted like red wine mixed with chocolate milk. It was bad.

Peanut butter and fluff. Then you can also feel superior to everyone, because you are Boston.

all human adults who can become pregnant or have sex with people who can become pregnant* should know that birth-control pills are taken daily, regardless of whether the person intends to have sex that day. you don’t just “stop” taking them if you’re not getting laid. jesus. [/headdesk]

Pose, Bathtubs over Broadway and the OG Hairspray? And it might be time for my kid to see Dark Crystal.

You’re absolutely entitled not to like the book—or any book. I’d never argue with a reader about how one of my books hits—or doesn’t hit him or her. Reading is personal. I’m entitled to be proud of my work, whether or not that particular book resonated for an individual reader.

That’s my good friend Marianne Willman. We didn’t write together, but had novellas in the same anthologies. Btw, I have no plans to stop writing the In Death series. 

And hello Twitter—I may not Tweet but I hear things. I write my own comments, too. I don’t have a team. I have me. If it has my name on it—book, comment, whatever—I fracking wrote it. What’s so hard to understand about that?

I will say again, because this is smearing my integrity. I write my own books. Every word. You may find you don’t like them. You may find one that doesn’t ring for you, but I wrote it. It’s insulting to have a reader decide otherwise because something didn’t work for them.