Of all the confusing things in the overly long, poorly thought out hobbit movies, he was the most confusing. I spent SO LONG asking myself 1. Did I really just see a sexy dwarf? 2. Is it okay that I think a mythical being is hot? 3. HOLY SHIT IS HE ROMANCING AN ELF?

Jason Webley back in the day before his stuff got kind of kitschy. It was an autumn show in a venue filled with giant piles of leaves, he played the usual accordion-driven melancholia/dark drinking songs, a villain popped out from under a pile of leaves and people ran around passing out tomatoes and we drove off the…

Same. I’m usually anti-floral, always anti-butterfly, but this is so fucking cool. I really hope it ends up on the red carpet like, tomorrow.

WOULD WEAR. I love embroidery but it always reads as hippie white chick on me. This would make me not care. This is glorious, and the crop top makes it feel more modern.

Love this one! It’s gorgeous and just made me rethink my anti-tummy-tattoo stance.

So medieval, so awesome. 10/10 would wear everyday.

I had a friend that worked at an evil, evil bakery where they had a tip jar, but the owners took the money, kept most of it, and tipped out the manager with the rest. Such bullshit that the highest paid employee was the only one who got tips. The manager fired someone for telling a customer that the baristas & counter…

I lost ~10 pounds this year, which is a lot on my frame, but I was too broke to buy new clothes until my weight stabilized, so I just wore a LOT of shift dresses & loose blouses and leggings, where there is a size or so of give.

I think the idea of paleo is kind of silly, for reasons mostly having to do with the huge discrepancies between “paleo” and what our paleolithic ancestors actually ate, but eating more whole foods is awesome! Good for you! Maybe consider it as not “going paleo” with the strictness and drinking-the-kool-aid vibe it…

You’ll probably get a ton different responses re: when to spay. A lot of vets and shelters recommend “as soon as physically possible” ie 5 months or so, but you have to remember that their #1 priority is preventing more unwanted dogs, not the health of your specific dog. About a year or after her first season is best…

Barbados =/= Albania. Not even the same continent.

I dunno, I watched the episode of Planet Earth (? I think?) where the polar bear dies after being gored by a walrus because the ice is melting and it was weak with hunger, on acid, in the middle of a 100+ degree heat wave and it was decidedly unmellow. Not freak-out provoking, but definitely environmental-existential…

Planet Earth, or Human Planet, or Blue Planet for whale enthusiasts, or Life, or that new one where each episode is a stage of an animal’s life but it’s honestly a little too intense sometimes...

For us it was less house-and-children (which we would probably do with or without marriage) than an opportunity to declare ourselves a lifelong partnership. It's weird, because I believed it before marriage and it was true, but the act of formally announcing it in a legally binding way really did change our…

After being with Mr Parade for 5 years, I went from the "Marriage doesn't make a difference! It's commitment that counts!" side of things to be like, "No, it is time for us to get married now" and then we did. For me, it was that even though it's a formality and has absolutely no impact on our day to day life, it is a…

I’m at a phase in my life where I’m in contact with more truly rich people than ever before - as in, people who are rich and have always been rich and are rich enough that complaining about the cost of private Upper East Side preschools on a lawyer’s salary isn’t ludicrous to them - and I’ve realized it’s not ~just~…

I've never been, uhhh, that close with a Tibetan man, but I will say that when I lived in Nepal for a year, Tibetan men tended to be fairly relaxed around women and genuinely respectful, which was a relief since the dominant culture in Kathmandu is very patriarchal with strict gender segregation. Also, Tibetan guys…

Honestly, I’ve had some pretty fucking terrifying ones since I started writing them down, but I’ve also had really epic adventure dreams (Atlantis! Jungles! The future!) so it’s worth it? I really hate zombies though and wish they would GTFO.

It makes you way more likely to remember your dreams if you get in the habit of writing them down, and I find that mine get more & more complex and vivid if I write them down regularly. I’ve never had a true lucid dream despite writing them down fairly often, but dreaming is just more fun because it stays with you…

Really? He kind of looks like the icky guy from Maroon 5 to me :-\