If he likes classic fantasy, you could get an older, gorgeous edition of something with less name-recognition than LOTR. The Worm Ouroboros is really great and you can find beautiful art deco editions with great illustrations.

I think with 3 people hotels are definitely the way to go, since you pay by-bed in hostel. It was a while ago, so I’m sure prices have gone up, but when I traveled around Europe with my two best friends (Nice, Brugge, Amsterdam, & Berlin) we stayed in small budget hotels for less than the cost of all three of us…

Same. I don’t need glitz to make me more reflective.

I think you would automatically be a cool aunt. When I was 13, anything that encouraged self-expression was awesome, especially if it bypassed my mom’s veto power.

Trastevere is so beautiful. Husband and I spent a really lovely afternoon there drinking beer in an outdoor cafe on a tiny cobblestone street where all the buildings where swathed in ivy, watching old men play chess and eat ice cream. It was really lovely, especially since we’d just gone on a mission to the…

I am so ashamed. I almost committed a Pinkham’s law with the Moe’s story. I found myself reading it and thinking to myself, “Well, midwestern Grandma always referred to ground beef as ‘hamburger meat’ so maybe it was a contraction, drop the hamburger and keep the meat...” Never fear, I got ahold of myself, that story…

My parents are in Seattle and my mom keeps calling me and pretty much predicting the end of the world, collapse of all civilization, etc. due the unseasonable heat. Best quote so far: “You just don’t understand! It’s like SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA!!!” (said in the tone of disbelief and disgust that a true NW native uses re:…

And laving! “He laved her breast” “She watched tenderly as he laved her blossoming petals.”

I’ve seen The Fifth Element probably a dozen times. Ditto for Waterworld. It’s not exactly a guilty pleasure, because I’m pretty unashamed of my love for post-apocalyptic/sci-fi, but I’m pretty sure that most people don’t even consider those movies GOOD examples of the genre :-\

No offense intended, but I don’t know if I buy that bright lipstick is aging after a certain point. It sounds uncomfortably close to all the advice telling women to tone down their personalities once they hit middle age: no hair dye except to cover the grey, don’t wear bright make up or short skirts, that sort of…

Same! I feel draggy in eye shadow but will 100% wear lipstick on an otherwise bare face.

Like miniature ponies! You feed them carrots and marvel at how cute they are.

A friend of mine was complaining on facebook that the bodega gave her an egg & bacon on a roll instead of what she ordered. It look over a dozen comments commiserating with her hardship before someone pointed out that a cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese & tomato is appalling and bodega dude did the right thing…

I love this video. Conan just gets pinker and pinker and pinker and I spent most of it praying they’d forget to pixelate Steven Yeun.

Mugwort vag steam!

God I love Korean spas. I took my baby sister on her 16th birthday because I figured it was a good time to actively embrace body positivity, and I was so proud of her when she took to it like a duck to water. Now I want to go schedule a scrub...

It hurts like a motherfucker but is over quickly. I did sea salt soaks with mine, so my roommates got to see me dangling my teats in bowls of warm, salty water three times a day. They heal pretty quickly because nipples are highly vascular, but if you catch them on anything with in the first few weeks it is memorably…

Erase paste concealer, Makeup Forever HD powder, Stila stay all day liquid liner, all the lipsticks, any mascara because none of them satisfy me.

Personal anecdote time: when I first started dating my husband, I was living with my beloved but hilariously cheap best friend. She stole the giant roles of brown industrial toilet paper from her college rather than buy something decent. Husband complained about scratching up his tender bum, and her response? “The…

Why is Yoko Ono so bossy?