I was thinking Paula Abdul for both BIs. Maybe it's just 'cause she's on my mind for being all flavors of crazy last night.

@wannaspankinplz: Hm. Maybe I'm in the wrong business, or living in New York has ruined my perspective.

Maybe I watch wayyyy to many reruns, but all I can picture is Lady Heather and Gil Grissom. *shudder*

$566 a week on average? I don't know very many people of any race who make that much money per week (outside of New York).

Hahahah! I cannot stop laughing at the dancing. Hilarious.

@tellmeagain: Advice for this: my friend and her BF got 2 twin sized comforters, one for each of them. (They don't use a top sheet, they just wash their duvet covers regularly.)

@Lollia: It's because the caviar flavor can be ruined by metal. It's a tradition to eat caviar with something made out of horn/shell.

EWWWWW! But yet, I get it.

@blackbirdfly: Ha ha ha! I used to get up at 5am every morning in high school and hot roll my hair. I am decidedly not from the South (home state borders Canada). But then I realized my hair was naturally curly

Wow, I guess I never realized what The Gathering of the Paparazzi would feel like (Britney notwithstanding). Now I do. Not fun.

She and Lori Gottlieb can go play in a sandbox. I've decided I'm not going to let this crap bother me any more.

@Skinny Bone Jones: My friend's husband is a photo retoucher. He's one of the best guys in the world. But granted, he works for a music mag, not a fashion mag, so it's not quite as bad. Still, he said he once spent an entire day photoshopping the freckles/wrinkles out of Jennifer Aniston's decolletage.

@Candyboots: I love your book and site, BTW.

Haven't read all the comments yet... but don't blame the publisher. The editor (who, randomly, is the daughter of the former Editor of the Times Book Review), purchased this book 3 years ago... before the James Frey scandal. Editors/agents were much less skeptical then.

Tangentially, my parents read to my brother and I every single day growing up. We'd all sit together and read the same books, and it was a really varied selection.

How about Jean Craighead George's My Side of the Mountain? (One of my favorite books of all time.) Yes it's billed as an "adventure" novel, and it's a pretty stereotypical bildungsroman, but the main character does nothing if not play house in a giant hickory tree for a year. I loved the descriptions of Sam sewing…

I haven't had the chance to read all the comments, but here's a story about the opposite extreme.

@MilointheMeadow:

@onthecornerofparkerandwoolf: Someone probably already replied, but NPR said it was the Drudge Report that leaked the Harry info. He goes too far.

@brendastarlet: I also agree with Dodai about the people who "just.don't.get.it." There are a few folks who pop in once and a while whose weird earnestness or inability to distinguish snark just make them stand out like a sore thumb. Regular commenters are regulars for a reason.