I have never been to a Cirque show, but have seen some documentary bits on TV about various circus acts (women were suspended by THEIR HAIR while being spun around stage) and the makeup/costume artistry. Clowning and circus performance is a very physically demanding career, and unfortunately, for all their creative…

THIS CANADIAN APPROVES THIS MESSAGE ABOUT GENTLE FUN CANADIAN PARENTS ABROAD!

I’m inexplicably a Taylor Lautner fan from, I kid you not, Twilight. Movie was comedy gold (maybe not intentionally, but whatever) and he was totally in on the hilarity.

The level of Twilight-zone weirdness of hearing a grown-ass woman saying “Good job, Cayden” in a singsong voice 57 times in a row as Cayden folded a paper three times was enough to drive me to hardcore judging. Sorry. You’re probably one of the chill cool moms without realizing it.

It’s a very apt term, because it perfectly describes their thinking: 
“Hell yeah I’m overreacting!! To hell with the consequences!!”

I had to staff an arts and crafts table for children a while ago, and the level of indulgence some parents showed their mini children was astounding. They’re five to seven; it does not matter if their 5-minute craft is a masterpiece. Make something fun and move on! From children who had never been given a…

I don’t particularly like children, but part of what is so exhausting about interacting with them is the “DON’T WAKE THE MAMA BEAR!!!!” attitude of this type of parent. The best parents are chill, know their kids are wild hellions, and try to put some space between the kids and other people going about their days. The…

I can think of 10 different ways to make a cool cover with that striped t-shirt and none of them involve a bedazzled beret.

I have a big nose, but not the full-of-character kind of big nose. I desperately wanted a great, defined nose like Anjelica Huston, but I have a big formless blob of a nose instead that doesn’t seem to have nostrils if you look at my straight-on.

She also starred in and enthusiastically repped a shitty movie that was really grossly ableist and romanticized benevolent ableism and romanticized disabled people dying. She’s been on my shit list for a while; she’s clueless and determinedly so.

Also, Juliette Binoche!

I was never totally obsessed with them (and was a very bookish kid so I was comparing the writing unfavourably to some of my other faves), but I did enjoy the “Muggles Meet at Midnight” at the local independent bookshop and alway tried to read the whole new book in a day. They were great characters and pretty…

Were you working with the distribution of the books in some capacity? Or was your boss just a Potterhead?

Have you or have you not kissed a codfish, Fishstory?

When participating in this weird-ass Yukon thing, your lips MUST touch the toe to get the certificate!

I have an Elrond-level high forehead, a widow’s peak hairline, and a mighty cowlick that has long decided how I part my hair. I still had (self-cut!) Bettie Page bangs for about a year. I could never straighten my bangs because my hair is too thin; it made the hair look stringy. I washed my bangs in the sink every…

There’s something very satisfying in watching a man I intensely dislike Lean In to his own downward spiral.

I like that women are getting their small, personal stories produced. That is a good thing. But these small, personal stories always seem to look the same—especially in this genre that is very small (media about eating disorders). I think out of my friend group alone, 1 or 2 out of 10 have no history of disordered…

Not into the messy backgrounds, lo-res photos/GIFs, fake-cutesy facial expressions, or a lack of a clear theme.

I don’t really care for the analogy, but I also just don’t care. But I will say that as a person with the luckily quite manageable Celiac disease, I am in constant irrational (but maybe rational, in this case) fear that my friends think of me like this. I try not to be a drag, and if I can’t eat somewhere, then I’ll…