No, you can’t get free upgrades often these days, but you should always ask, and ALWAYS be nice. Just always be nice in general. An attendant asked me to swap seats on a flight from LAX to London a few weeks back, and it was kind of strange how grateful she was—because I assume she deals with assholes all day long.…

Pretty much. I have met with her team and it was very clear that, while they are quite protective and very smart (and, I should mention, nice), she’s the boss. 100%. They were professional and I could see they had a ton of respect for her. She is incredibly savvy...it’s kind of amazing. I was a total fuck up at that…

J Crew outlet stuff is boring as fuck and also overpriced. It’s the place I go begrudgingly when I need a cardigan for the office, as their quality is marginally better than Gap, most of the time.

This was beautiful. I didn’t really think about her much but stumbled upon this video a few years ago and was just blown away by her talent.

I hate myself for trying and I am also pretty small, no dice. This brought back way too many bad memories of my diary filled with daily measurements of every body part, the pencil test (ass AND tits), and all the other shit my twisted brain obsessed (and continues to, at 35) about. Sucks.

Allison Mossart is the shit, and I had no clue she was also a visual artist. I kind of stumbled upon The Kills years ago when a friend dragged me out to a Bloc Party show where they opened. We arrived during their set and it took me about 10 minutes to realize she wasn’t a dude. She’s an awesome and energetic…

My boyfriend went when Obama was on pre-prez days. I am still dying to go...

I can’t even deal with how gorgeous she is.

And one of those issues was almost definitely the fact that her father was abusive. I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that this was NOT any kind of isolated incident.

Reading through this post it was my first thought, that this man is an emotionally abusive piece of shit. I could never watch the video, the transcript is enough to make me sick.

I have been working on a Swift project at work for the past year or so, and while I haven’t met her in person, I’ve met with her management and mom, and they are incredibly nice, smart and professional. Everything I’ve seen/read indicates that she’s a super cool person. I love hearing anything that affirms that.

I am an art director and I sketch a shit ton using pencils. I usually go over with the thinnest Micron I can get my hands on, because I hate smearing. I prefer mechanical because I am anal as fuck and like super super thin lead (o.3), but quite a few of my colleagues like normal old pencils. And yes, we have pencil…

Don’t talk shit. I spent $30 on mechanical pencils and lead at Maido in SF yesterday. Pencils are the shit. I can hate on a lot but I REFUSE to hate on a store dedicated to pencils. Because pencils are everything.

This was my dad. And I was a depressive spaz who tended to run off from my friends in a drunken dramatic stupor. He picked me up quite a bit.

You are, like, my parenting yoda. I have a 4.5-year-old. I am terrified of the teen years, although he’s male so at least I (hopefully) won’t have to deal with a repeat of my moody shithead self from that age.

I am the mother of a young son and this is how I responded to the video as well. It made me uncomfortable in a lot of ways, but the overall feeling was that I couldn’t imagine being so fucking fearful for my child all the time, and the insane amount of anger I’d feel if I’d seen him in that kind of situation, and…

OMG my 13-year-old self just squeeed.

My body isn’t really that different after a kid. He’s nearly 5 now, and I bounce back and forth 10 pounds or so just like I always did. I totally lost the weight and then some right after I gave birth, though. PPD will do that to a lady. I recommend it to everyone!

Dude, whimsy is a word that should never be used outside of my work (and I design greeting cards) and this:

The turmeric isn’t what’s stupid.