I love Monsoon Wedding! Great, under appreciated film!

The characters. I could see them, hear them, sense what they were about to do. They felt like real people that I could know. I loved Boris particularly. I still find myself thinking about him, or wishing I could meet him. I felt the same way about Henry in The Secret History. Her writing has always been incredibly…

Not to mention, if she had gained even the slightest amount of weight, the tabs would be vicious! Remember what they did to Fergie back in the day?

HA! I have a deep and abiding love of The Secret History, I think because I read it for the first time at the same age as the characters. My mom, though, different story. She called me one night after I went on and on about how she HAD to read it and she just started screaming, "These people are little SHITS! Little…

I feel the same way as you about TSH and TLF. I LOVED The Goldfinch. Love, love, LOVED. I totally disagree with GinAndTonic obviously. Give it a shot. I thought it was one of the best books I have read in years.

One of my friends from high school had an arranged marriage and is by all accounts (which is just Facebook so who knows really) they are very happy. I think this show is wildly different from a standard non-coersive arranged marriage, though. In the case of my friend, her father and the groom's father were best…

Yeah, no way. This has to violate some kind of ethics. I would image they are a hack and not licensed to practice.

I was questioning the quantity of cream cheese as well. My guess? Semi-pro cheesecake maker.

When I was a teenager, my family lived in China and while we did have a fridge it was about a quarter of the size of the typical U.S. refrigerator. As a result, we did a lot more daily shopping. Like, we would go to the market and get that day's meat and vegetables. We didn't do a lot of bulk shopping and tended to be…

Yeah, I tried to find a way to work in the clothes, shoes, etc, in my post but couldn't make it sound right. The lifestyles on that show were just insane.

Still, though, the clothes that Megan and Betty wear would have been hot off the runway, current season, designer fashions. My mom and aunts (who grew up in that era) have said it would have been a stretch even for people as rich as the current and former Mrs. Draper.

To be fair, wasn't it explained that the apartment was rent controlled and willed to Monica by her grandmother? Not that it makes it any better in any other show, but at least they had a fairly reasonable explanation in Friends. The worst of this trope, IMO, was Sex and the City where Carrie Bradshaw lived in a swanky…

OH MY GOD. I am laughing so hard right now you don't even know. Oh my god.

When I was online dating, I had SO many experiences where the guy was great "on paper," really sharp and witty over emails and chats, nice chemistry on the phone, then in person... nada. Nothing. Zilch. Zero. It happened so often I have wondered if some dudes have their smarter wittier friends writing their responses…

HA! I've gotten that one to, when dressed up for a work event. "Giiirrrlllll you wanna take me on a ride in that Camry? You can buy me a hamburger!" I laughed because I didn't think he could possibly be serious. I mean, has that ever worked for these guys??

Which is not a bad thing and something that professional women need.

Jones New York is nice (I swear by them for my work pants), but women like Hilary Clinton don't want to see copies of themselves in the press room. These clothes also probably are better tailored and probably last longer than Jones New York.

Well aren't you just a special flower made of lentils and rainbow farts.

My school had a few of kids from the Gulf and they were the richest of the rich. They were too rich to associate with the likes of me, that's for sure. We called them the Persian Mafia after "Clueless" because they were just like the Persian Mafia in "Clueless." You couldn't hang with them unless you had your own…

I hate people who do that. A girl on my Facebook feed is constantly bitching that she can't afford the neighborhoods she wants to live in in the Bay Area. I'm like, wait a minute, I couldn't afford to live ANYWHERE in the Bay Area and you're bitching that you can't afford Nob Hill? Get a life.