Have you ever given the Dresden Files books a gander? The writing isn't as strong in the first few but the characters are compelling, as is the world that Butcher creates. They're really fun, pulp-noir books.

"Look, we're just not sure these ladies realize what they're having is an abortion and not a mani/pedi. Women don't actually realize what an abortion is so we need more laws, all the laws, every law we can find so that they understand what they are about to do to themselves. How can a woman fully comprehend the…

I didn't even know they made sunscreen! I usually stay away from the brand because I'm allergic to benzoyl peroxide. Time to hit the drug store again, my bottle of Target brand is almost out.

What sunscreens do you use? I keep switching brands because I'm never happy with the smell of the stuff, and a lot of them feel really greasy afterwards.

Yeaaah....Paula Deen's future is super uncertain. I'm sure that she'll have to go on food stamps, probably beg for rent from relatives and subsist on buttered ramen once she runs out of food money....sometime in 2098.

That's what was frankly the most annoying. Ever since she got pregnant, this couple has been grating on my nerves with behaviors like that. The husband in now constantly asking when I'm going to get pregnant, even though it's no secret that neither I nor my boyfriend want children.

I think once you've stuffed the envelope with separate registry notices, relisting the many many places on the back of the invitation passes "tacky" and plants a foot straight into "obnoxious."

Uhg. I didn't look at the registries but I'd be even more annoyed if they were full of decorations. I understand that the necessities sometimes require buying in bulk, like diapers and basic products, stuff that you don't want to have a baby and suddenly at 3am you realize you're out of something vital. And books,…

This is not about weddings but it is about grabby gift registry bullshit. A couple I am friends with are expecting their first child, and as is wont to happen they threw a baby shower. I received an invite Monday for said shower, taking place that same day, which was annoying enough. Why? Because I live four…

That's a reality of toy manufacturing and design that a lot of people don't consider. Barbie's hyper-slender waist was to accommodate all that bulk that happens when seams go around a skirt (seams as well as fastenings!). Adding maybe an inch or two in bulk on a human being isn't noticeable, on a doll that's barely…

When I first saw this tag all I heard was a little "poot!" sound effect.

Barbie's body was redesigned in 97 to make her more contemporary and so the body would work better with the fashion of the times. The previous body was designed with an hourglass figure for hourglass fashions, an extra skinny waist to accommodate seam bulk on skirts. The new Barbie was designed to wear hip-huggers…

It was done to accommodate contemporary fashions. The trend isn't hourglass figures anymore, or the clothing that looks best on them. It's hip-huggers, miniskirts, etc.

Once again, the Japanese are way ahead of you.

The next article will be about how Doctor Who fist-bumped someone, therefore he's very dudebro.

That would be one of the themes of the books though, and Frollo is still out to kill all the gypsies in the Disney animated film, just not with the support of Paris behind him. The major idea was to not judge based on appearances. Frollo and Pheobus were terrible people despite their reverent position and outward…

Victor Hugo was not known for writing happy stories. I will say I was miffed that while in the novel, Esmerelda is the protagonist, but Disney decided to go with the titular character and came up with a weaker film.

Here's what's going to happen. 20 years from now this kid is going to be all grown up and have his own terrible clothing line or terrible fragrance and it will be called "North, by North West." The collective groan unleashed by the combined fans of Alfred Hitchcock, Saul Bass and good film in general are going to…

Even if the argument becomes "non-European stories aren't appropriate for Disney" (which still doesn't hold water, many works Disney used were originally quite horrific. Read Mary Poppins where a woman snaps off her own fingers for children to chew on), you could always just ask Disney to adapt more modern stories…

I can't read these stories anymore. I just can't. Politicians are routinely able to pass laws requiring doctors to give out medically inaccurate information, redefining medical words to their own whims, forcing doctors to lie about medicine, forcing women to undergo unnecessary medical procedures, forcing clinics to…