Shoot, should have read all the way down. I just said the same thing. :)

That would have made more sense. Heather Morris is already way ahead of the other contestants in terms of dancing ability. Of course, even without her, it seems cosmically unfair to pit the likes of Biles against an aged former pro wrestler and an equally aged Spanish comedian. I guess they had to stick a ringer in…

I refuse to go to my company parties even with my spouse. There are too many people I work with that I’d prefer not to see when they’re all boozed up.

If it makes you feel any better, someone at my workplace (who is even older than me) said something similar when I mentioned Dinosaur, Jr.

Thanks for the info on the French phrase. I always thought of Huppert as being somewhat of a style icon, but maybe that’s due to my perception of her as a French woman from the perspective of a gauche American. For some reason I can picture her partying with Jenna Lyons, who also has a kind of “chien” vibe to her.…

Point taken about Huppert being a non-native English speaker. However it seems safe to assume that she’s well traveled and cosmopolitan enough to understand what JCrew represents. While I am aware that compared to Chanel, StLaurent, etc., JCrew is substantially less pricey, it’s still not as down-to-earth as buying…

Every time I read about someone dissing JCrew like its flea market fare, I feel compelled to point out that for most people, a JCrew jacket is a serious splurge, if not downright unaffordable.

That was the year I graduated high school. So old. We were going to get tickets for the Descendants too but shit they were expensive. I do buy “new” music a few times a year, but most of the time they are either new releases by older artists or replacing stuff I used to have on cassette/vinyl.

I am like Methuselah old. The last things I bought that could be considered young are The Sam Roberts Band and Santigold. In two weeks I will go see Dinosaur, Jr. Please kill me now.

I felt the record scratch there, too, but I guess I feel a little more comfortable examining her ideas. I am married, and had a ceremony, if you will, that was a lot like your description. No one walked me down the aisle, we weren’t married in a church, and I didn’t take my husband’s name. But even so, I can see…

Yeah, I am over 40 now and look it. I would still wear the combat boots (no shame) but anything requiring a taut midriff is a hard pass, even the pretty, pretty slip dresses, because they made anyone who’d recently eaten a decent meal look about 5 months pregnant.

I thought he was hot in that geeky kind of way the first seasons of Alias. Like, I would totally go for. But something changed when he got the bump to leading man status- I can’t quite put my finger on it, either. Maybe the real Bradley Cooper died and was replaced by a clone?

Yes. I remember all that, as well as those little handkerchiefs with ties on the back that we called “tops”, multiple mini-buns that gave you a Darth Maul-ish silhouette, fuzzy sheer crop sweaters worn over a satin slip dress (usually with Docs). Oh yeah.

Aw I’m sorry. Finding an affordable product that works for you is not easy! It stinks when you find some nice indie product that either goes under or gets bought out by a larger, more questionable company, too.

Tell me about it. I feel like every dollar I spend ends up going against my values somehow. It’s like the more you know, the less you enjoy your life. :-/

I didn’t plan to be a co-sleeper, but our child was not going to fall asleep on her own, not ever. We tried, we really did. It was exhausting and tortuous, listening to her scream and scream every time she realized she was by herself (usually within five minutes of being laid in her crib) and finally we just rigged…

Thank you!

Great piece, worth chewing on.

Depends what part of the nineties. I was a teen/young woman back then, and while there was some definite Fug, there were a lot of fantastic looks, too.

I have seen and heard these kinds of comments for the past eight years from friends of friends. These same “real ‘murricans” want us to all come together and give their serial sexual-predator, conflict-of-interest-ridden, tax-evading, war-mongering, etc., etc., etc., cheeto-elect a chance. No. Fuck ‘em.