You should read this book! The Customs and Border Patrol guys do all sorts of crazy undercover stuff. Fascinating read: http://www.amazon.com/Winged-Obsessi…

Oh trust, I use that too, and the Benefit pencil, and an Anastasia pencil and powder. After I started having my eyebrows waxed regulary for the first time prior to my wedding, I've rediscovered them in a major way. I'm using ALL the products at this point.

The girl at Benefit who does my brows says castor oil. The cold-pressed kind from a beauty supply shop (I'm all organic 'n stuff so I got mine at Whole Foods). Dab on with a q-tip and rub in, before bed. The science is of course murky but castor oil is a disinfectant, so maybe something to do with keeping the hair…

Say what you want, but this is goddamned gorgeous. I am making for Thanksgiving this year. I also once made a cheeseball shaped like a pumpkin for a Halloween party. It was cute and delicious!

Candy Corn mixed with salty dry roasted peanuts (aka what my friend's Midwestern Ma calls "Bridge Mix") and eaten by the handful is Manna from heaven.

Oh I definitely had that fear as a kid. We lived out in the woods and were the last house on the road for all of my childhood. My bedroom was on the ground floor and my bed faced a really large window. I used to freak myself out all the time thinking I would wake up in the night and see a face peering in (or a…

Dude, that lady is prolific! She has published probably close to a book a year since then! There was a werewolf one last summer, can't remember the name. Prince Lestat just came out this week — there's a huge display of them at my local B&N. It'll probably be a #1 or #2 bestseller.

My wedding was 2 months ago. My parents hosted a buffet coffee brunch the next morning and I ate three pieces of huckleberry coffee cake and three pieces of spinach/cheddar fritatta. I was too stressed and busy socializing to eat during my cocktail hour (to my great, great regret because appetizers were my…

Love this! A friend of mine got to go to the opening of this exhibit and he posted some photos on Facebook — tons of women came dressed up in gothic/mourning-adjacent costumes. It looked really fun and really cool!

I've actually read this book. It may have been written by a legal scholar, but scholarly it ain't. I enjoyed reading it and the premise was clever, but it's still chick-lit. I'm sure the hardcover sales were weak, so they had to make the PB cover more broadly appealing to its target audience: women who buy…

OMG thank you, I thought it was just me. I keep seeing these dresses that I think will be cute but try them on and *nope* back from the mirror. I just popped on over to Gap.com to see which stuff is on sale and yeah, when 99% of your fall line makes your own models look dumpy (ouch the sleeves on those blousy tops),…

Provolone, pshaw. The correct French Onion Soup cheese is Gruyere, aka fancy Swiss cheese. So you weren't far out there.

I'm reading it too! I met him, he signed my book, and he called me "the Pitbull of Love." I love him.

I can't believe I missed this last month! My pile includes:
Magican's Land — Love this series by Lev Grossman — Harry Potter for grownups. I reread the first two books in the series in preparation and nabbed a signed copy early at Comic-Con, and then didn't want to bring it on my honeymoon. Just waiting for a rainy…

He really has, RIP Southland. He was so good on that show, I have high hopes for Gotham. My husband and I share an unnatural love for The OC — I own the first season on DVD and we've already scheduled a binge for the week of Thanksgiving!

Yeah, he'll keep doing this until he gets a ticket. An ex of mine got a ticket for driving without a license when he was moving his car from one side of the street to the other for street cleaning. Another time, he got a ticket for driving without a seatbelt while doing the same thing. Dude had terrible luck.

Have you seen pictures of that kid? He's Bobby Flay's mini-me. No doubt about it in my opinion.

The skirt is gorgeous — if she'd picked a plain black spaghetti-strap tank from Old Navy instead, and hiked the skirt up to her waist, tailored it right, and stood up straight and threw her shoulders back, she'd look gorgeous! This top looks like pajamas.

Yup. Getting married in a month; we have friends and family coming in from all over the country, east & west coast. Two of my bridesmaids are pregnant. My cousin is pregnant. His cousin just had a baby. My sister-in-law's sister is pregnant. My best friend from childhood is pregnant. When I say "guess what" to my…

My roommate at the time and I watched it (we, in fact, taped it on my 2-in-1 tv/vcr... o 2003)... because we both loved the book and also, Ephraim from Everwood (funnily apropos of the Chris Pratt feature happening on the Jez main page.) At the time I loooooved Ephraim was willing to overlook the lack of red hair and…