Katie Holmes is the same age as me — and I definitely enjoyed me some Franzia back in the day (high school) when that was the only alcohol my friend's older sister would buy for us (that, or wine coolers). Franzia/wine cooler hangovers though, I didn't enjoy.

Yes, my boyfriend needed to update his address on the election rolls and was slow getting around to it. He sent in his paperwork and was able to also indicate online that he was sending it — and then got an email on Friday that it was not received in time due to Sandy. He will probably be able to vote at our polling…

Oh my god, me too. I grew up out in the woods, there were other houses on our road but not very many and ours was the last one (back then), and then the road turned into a National Forest many miles wide. My parents went to the Caribbean one summer for 2 weeks, sent my brother to camp, and let me stay alone (I was 17…

That's so strange. I believe it. This is not the same at all, but I always felt like I had a weird premonition-y thing happen too. It was probably just a coincidence... I was in college at the time and was working with some friends on a production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons. The play is about a family whose son…

We watched SNL and cackled gleefully, but it wasn't until we saw the real commercial during football (right, wha?) that my boyfriend realized this was actually a real thing. He thought the whole thing was an SNL-generated joke.

I had a conversation similar to this about relationships with a friend last night. I would go back and tell myself to stop (or don't start) obsessing over boys who were clearly not interested in me. There's a chunk of high school and a good 2 years of college I will never get back because I was always mooning around…

I noticed that VS bras died faster than other bras when machine-washed (the underwire was always the first to go). My pricier, everyday Calvin Klein bras definitely last longer.

We did it first... sigh...RIP Vassar Homohop.

I came over here to exclaim, "Rose is married to Edward Forty Hands!?"

My dad goes home from work for lunch every day that he can, eats for 15 minutes, then takes a 20 minute nap. He's been doing this for like, 30 years, and it gets him through the day. Sometimes I close my office door, lay down on the floor, and nap for 20 minutes.

Oh yes, Nikken. A friend of mine from high school's mom and aunts sold those stupid magnets. They were Mormon; I think a lot of Mormons get into these schemes — maybe because they all go to church together and it's easy to recruit and sell. These women were all SAHMs, my friend's mom was a single mother and somehow…

What a bad-ass bunch of ladies, director included. I can't wait to see this. Also, wish we had a different full-length view of Lizzy Caplan. I think I might like her dress, but from this angle it's giving her a Fug-Girls worthy case of the stumps.

Late response, sorry. I make fish tacos with them: fish, cabbage, veggies — in a very hot pan, fold them over the filling and sort of toast them on one side and then flip to the other. They won't crumble to pieces when you fold them like straight up corn will.

We have Trader Joe's here! I'm going to look this weekend! Of course fresh is always better but since my boyfriend is basically a Quesedilla-eating machine, I need to keep a supply in the freezer at all times.

Ah, but what about the illusive "half -and-half" corn and flour mixed tortilla? My parents have a source for these out in the midwest but I've never been able to find them here in NYC. Somehow they combine the best of both — taste/texture of corn but they have a bit of stretch and thus hold together better and don't…

Oh god, so terrible. Gabrielle Anwar pissed me off the most — people of that era were not tan and skinny with breast implants. She looked like she walked off the set of Burn Notice, put on a costume, and waltzed onto the set without a speck of hair or makeup.

Perhaps the problem was The Tudors? I love campy costume drama as much as the next chick, but I hated that show and cancelled it from Netflix after 2 discs. Perhaps my problem was that I tried to watch it right after I finished Wolf Hall. I just couldn't get past the anachronisms. (Although Natalie Dormer turned out…

I heard about this on NPR this morning and one of the doctors involved was careful to say that since there were only 10 women in the study, it could be a statistical anomaly that none of them experienced the same level of cognitive problems. I think there's simply not enough study yet.

Oh great, something else to look forward to after my 32nd birthday, which is in 5 days. Welp, off to fill out my nursing home wait-list application!

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...