Please don't approve stuff like this. Thanks.

Ogden Nash would be proud of this. :)

Is one of you Italian? If so, it simplifies things slightly. If not, it'll be romantic but costly. (If you're American, here's one link to start with: [travel.state.gov] ) You're looking at a town hall wedding. You need at least two witnesses and an interpreter (if neither of you speaks Italian). You need to post the…

JCrew has some ridiculous sale going on at the moment: [bit.ly] They seem like a good go-to for dresses, and the sale has ones beginning at $40! Not bad! Hope you find something. :)

Also, says Arne, Rosetta Stone doesn't count. Less wooing of waitresses in Italian, more "Please give me a raise" in Mandarin.

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Obligatory "Big Business" (1988) quote:

Kanye's post-shirt-spree Tweet: DEAR BAZ, I GOT GATSBY NAILED. ASK DiCAP HOW MANY SHIRT CLOSETS HE HAS. CALL ME!

It sounds like a meteor—there are quite a few tri-state reports from this morning around 4 am: [www.amsmeteors.org] Cool!

But one of the women stares at a computer screen in the second clip! Well, at least I can feel better about my crappy freelancer-invoicing skills now... ;)

The second video is driving me to distraction—have these people never heard of QuickBooks?!

I think the Times interviewed the free-range-kids lady for her reactions to this case, and I really wish either a) they'd thought better of it, or b) she'd had the grace to say, "You know, I think it's best if I don't comment on this." Instead, she said something like, "There's always a small chance that something bad…

Hmm. Either it's true, and you're both going through wacky-schedule hell, or he has some page-one Google result that he knows may make you think twice about dating him. So what happened when you Googled him?

It's called marketing.

I'm in his district, and it strikes me as a spectacularly naive thing for him to do...and I like my politicians with at least a little sophistication and strategic know-how.

Your dangling modifier is showing.

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As infants?

Bullet dodged, onward and upward, etc. I don't think you're the Queen of Idiots. Why waste your time?

I hate this, too. David Carr had a piece in last week's NY Times about it (and he condemns it): [www.nytimes.com] My brother took out his phone during Easter brunch, and I nearly threw a plate of sweet rolls at him. Really?! You're so important that you can't stop texting/FBing/Foursquaring during Easter brunch?! So…