Isn't Pettyfer the one that supposedly has a tattoo on his crotch that says "You're Welcome"? I feel like that came out around the time of the he-maybe-beat-up-Dianna Agron scandal...

Whoa, I could swear PMS 111-4 C is my friend's husband.

Yup, the 2nd book in the trilogy came out yesterday. Lucky you, if you read the first one now, you won't have to wait 18 months to read the second one! I personally deplore Twilight and everything it stands for. This series is smart and I'd dare say even literary (and I'm an acknowledged book snob) — the author is a…

This gets directly addressed in my favorite guilty-pleasure read A Discovery of Witches (aka Twilight for girls who like their vampires middle-aged, six feet tall, and French). The main character is a witch who falls in love with a vampire. Similarly, he's partly attracted to her by her overpowering scent. She…

Thanks for the recommendation! I've been waiting for Lawrence Wright's book that expands on his New Yorker article, but I can't find mention of it on Amazon which means it's at least a year away. So, I just bought Reitman's book for my Kindle. Guess I'm on Scientology's "Do Not Fly" list now, right along with you? …

When I was about 13, I went down to my neighbor's pool to swim with the other neighborhood kids (mostly boys, around my age). After that day, the boys started calling me "OPM." It took me a year to convince them to tell me what it meant: "One Piece of Muff." Turns out they had caught a glimpse of hair coming out of…

I already read it too. I don't usually read thrillers but a friend of ours worked on the book and gave me an advance copy. It's not highbrow literature, but it's really solidly written and has great twists.

I'll do the book club if we read Rebecca! I have a copy that I've been meaning to read for years. I've seen the movie but never read it.

Yes, the dismissing comments thing. I feel the same way. I had a couple man-splainy responses to comments yesterday and I honestly couldn't tell if I was feeling uncomfortable because they were BAD comments, or if I was being oversensitive. So I didn't do anything at all...

I have tree-hugger dishwasher soap pods! They come from Bed Bath & Beyond. Same brand (I think it's 7th Generation?). Also, the instructions tell you not to touch the pods with wet hands. I think the plastic wrappers are actually some kind of gel that does indeed dissolve when wet.

I made a few comments to other comments in the "women don't want to date unemployed men" thread, partly to test the waters on the new system. I got vaguely trolly responses on both, from miffed "nice guysTM". Are these the kind of comments we should be dismissing? To be honest, I can't even tell anymore since I…

Yes! I was unceremoniously dumped after a year of dating a guy who made about $8000 /year (he was a philosophy PhD/lifetime academic), after I'd bought countless nice bottles of wine, cooked countless meals with quality ingredients, paid for movie tickets and plane tickets, taken us out to meal after meal, and bought…

Yup, same for me. I was in a relationship for a year with a PhD candidate who'd been a student since his teens (4 years of college, 4 years of masters programs, 2 years into his PhD), while I'd been working steadily for almost 10 years, right out of college. He'd never had a "regular" job (aka: a day job), so he had…

Yep, I went through the naked machine in St. Louis last spring, and then afterwards they patted me down. I got a particularly thorough "hair patdown" as well (it was piled on top of my head). Guess they thought I might have throwing stars secreted in there?

I'm very pale too, and the best product that I've ever tried was the Clarins self-tan gel (not the mousse). I asked the Sephora lady and she said it was their best-selling tanner, and to cut it with moisturizer (ie: put on the moisturizer first, then the tanner immediately after) that helps with dry patches, and…

Yup, I have the pale pink on the far left there and I LOVE IT (it also kind of tastes like wine to me, so...bonus?). The glossiness really does stay put. I haven't tried the more intense colors but I adore that pale one with a smoky eye.

Great tip— you can also blot your lips with concealer before applying lipstick if you really want it to look exactly like in the tube.

I have a really nice Makeup Forever pencil sharpener from Sephora with 2 holes, one for bigger pencils like the above (I have 3 NARS pencils and I can confirm it works), and one for smaller pencils.

Probably what stuck with me most was the ingenious way the characters all ended up being connected. It felt extremely modern to me; this is the way we live now. And also I felt that some of the more despicable characters were redeemed by their children/families. I also think it spoke about art in a way that I, a…

I felt the same way. I read the first 2-3 chapters about 5 times before I got sucked in, and by the end, the last story had me sobbing on the subway. Ultimately, I tell people I loved it because I loved the 2nd half.