Ugh. I just hit the 6 month mark until D-Day a few days ago, and suddenly I've gone from "Tra-la-la-la! This wedding isn't for AGES" to "Fuck me, there are so many things to do, fuck fuck fuck!" So I'll admit I've been reading wedding blogs, and seriously, some of them incite deep respect and stark fear at the same…

@Macloserboy: The episode where Charlotte first looks into accupuncture provides a very good shot of her lower-half as she speaks to the receptionist. Pat Field clearly knew how they were going to shoot her and dressed her appropriately in black snuuug pants with a white windowpane check pattern all over. Whenever…

@hortense: My mom would sometimes paint my toenails in the summer, but only in the evening after I had exhausted myself from jumping off the dirt pile in the far backyard and swinging on a tree branch, or having caught enough fireflies to create an "airport" on the deck. :) And I was into it because she had this nail…

@Leiakat: Completely agree. I'd also add MTV to the blame list, and their obsession with featuring teens/young adults behaving badly with few to no consequences to face—between the parents who "threaten" to cancel the parties on Super Sweet Sixteen but then always relent to the histrionics on the RW/RR shows,…

@Hamsterpants: Our main office has an EA, and she is FABULOUS. Anytime she helps me out I get all gushy with gratitude, because I know she's doing a million things at once.

Loads of luck to the pair of them! I congratulate them on keeping their relationship out of wild, crazy tabloid scrutiny (which leads me to believe that despite their notions of grandeur, they are still rather down-to-earth which is quite a comforting notion). May the pair of them stay under the radar even thought…

@Gretchen: Never had a grey, but I'm very intrigued in the rescue effort. Again, it's about having a place that can aptly take care of them so that they are happy doggies.

@petuniacat: From my experience, breeders are hit or miss—when we got my first dog (black Lab) we bought from a breeder, and I picked out my little Clifford because he toddled over to me and licked my knee. He sadly died of cancer at the age of 4, likely due to overbreeding, and while the breeder was surprised, it…

Praise Jeebus that there are 0.0 Anchor Blue stores near me. May that remain the case...forever.

@Leiakat: Probably—East Brandywine is where they call home. I remember that Shady Maple too! I recall waiting in line forever and being grossed out by greasy eggs.

@SarahMC: Myself, I originated in Havertown but now my parents live right between Philly and Lancaster in the outermost western exurbs of the Philly metro area. We lived there long enough to know that tourists go to Shady Maple and the locals get the better food at Yoders, but that you have to get there early because…

@amoureuse is here because of Ashley!: It's because you will never find a domestic beer as tasty and as reasonably priced as Yuengling. It's not easily available here in CT (this and Wawa, man, are two of the main reasons to go back) so whenever I or any of my PA friends go home, at least one case of beer returns with…

@Harriet Miers, State Bar of Texas: Debs, surprisingly, are also still very much around. They took over a space at the mall near my parents' house where a Petites Sophisticate, August Max Woman and Casual Corner all were. And they haven't changed much since I was in one last...

@stoprobbers: Saw that too. I was impressed by the finesse of the Disney team, but was shocked at the gobs of money being thrown at them. But the mad tea party hosted by Alice and the Mad Hatter looked like fun.

@braak (is *whew*): The Texas Hold-em bit bugged me too. And apparently Baccarat is really easy to play—I think the rules are that you have to get to nine, and it's apparently pretty easy to win: [en.wikipedia.org]

@tscheese: Mallet percussionist here! Everyone giggles when I say that I play the vibraphone...and I don't know why...

@LaComtesse: Heehee—I never picked up on that because my family from there is all PA Dutch which I think affects their accent, and my grandmom (who lives right outside Philly) STILL has her Irish brogue. My dad's from Allentown, and is still teased mercilessly by my parents' friends for the way he says "oh noooo!" and…

@LaComtesse: I still hold onto remnants of SE PA accent, which is a sad pastiche of Philly-speak and Allentown-speak. I say "Beth-lem" instead of "Bethlehem" and "woodar" instead of "water" just to name a few. But it's totally slipping away as I live longer in CT too.

@PetiteGal: Ooooo. Good reference! I was thinking FW because Joan Collins played an EIC in the last series for a few glorious, hair-ripping episodes. Her versus Tanya Turner equals campy dramatic GOLD. And if we must have a Hitler-esque editor, she must look like Ms. Collins, hands-down.

@Archetype: I feel like Eva Braunstein is a character on Footballers Wive$.