@pinkyBella: Red Truck is a nice $10 pinot noir, and they have a similarly priced table red as well. My personal favorites are Alaia (Spain), Luzon (Jumilla, Spain), Punto Final (Malbec, Argentina), and a few others that I need to think about. If you like pinot noir, try Malbecs as well.

@UnSeelie.: I would also suggest going to local tastings, either at stores or at restaurants. A good wine shop will be more than accomodating to help you find something within your budget and your palate, but that will still be tasty. For example: Italian Wine Merchants in NYC only purchases the top 1% of all Italian…

@pinkyBella: I think she's 27/28, though you would never know that as she looks younger. But she seems pretty laid back—I love that her hair is usually a little messy.

@pinkyBella: @MockTurtle: Ever since I saw that little jacket on her this morning, I've been lusting after it—she is one of my biggest girl crushes. And I don't lust after Gap clothes (save the extra long pants)—Patrick Robinson is already getting good marks from me...

@Archetype: Saffy!!!! I'd totally make like Jennifer Saunders and be all "Saffy, Saffy darling, help Mumma!" and start banging things around.

@madamequeen will not let you sleep on the couch: I believe she was put into the Hall of Fame (yes, they have one—I always get this issue) for her general awesomness.

@LaComtesse: This is one of my favorite McSweeney's posts:

@SomnambulantHobbit: Yay! Sounds like a lovely, relaxing weekend for you! This is the first weekend since mid-June where we haven't had to either host houseguests (3 weekends of that!!!), go to showers, travel or do other wedding-related crap, so I'm taking a walk and going downtown to my favorite bead store to get…

@Hamsterpants: Yeppers. Rent the movie, and the website makes a lot more sense—the story is broken into three seasons from summer-winter, and as it progresses, things just get worse and worse. It is fucking creepy as hell—we walked out of the theatre and my boyfriend looks at me and says "I'm NEVER doing drugs again"…

@MockTurtle: The website for the movie is still up—www.requiemforadream.com—and is one of the creepiest promotional vehicles I have ever seen.

"If my house were being foreclosed on and I started reading a book about basically empty women who are blowing thousands of dollars on gaudy couture, it would not distract me from my plight. It would make me want to punch these fictional harridans directly in the cooch."

Hurrah! Yet another reason to keep both Jez and Gawker open during the day.

I like lots of different music—everything from classic R&B and soul to alternative-folk-whatever to jazz and a whole lot more. It depends on what mood I'm in. I try really hard not to judge—usually the snob in me comes out when I'm asked to pick music for work for a presentation and I'll find something really obscure…

@stacyinbean: YES! It's for the Beaches resort, too, I think (aka the one with kids allowed). But that song lost a decent amount of credibility when it was used for a Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen made for TV movie.

Whenever I see this ad (usually on Saturday mornings as i watch my Full House reruns), I a.) really want to go to this Atlantis resort only so I can yell "Hail, Atlantis/Hail Atlanta!" over and over again and b.) have an overwhelming urge to play the Koopa Cape level of Mariokart Wii, as it has that cool-looking clear…

Ha. My fiance is in charge of lunches and dinners during the week, and on the weekends we'll get takeout or cook together, with me getting breakfast for us (usually fresh rolls with goat cheese and/or olive oil). And lately I've been begging him to take the laundry down to our scary, spider-ridden basement because I…

@Archetype: This is very valid, I think—I wish people (especially strangers!!!!) would just keep their traps closed. It's like this one day this older woman sees me yawning as I'm waiting for the bus, and remarks "Someone stayed up too late last night!" I was really tempted to say "Yes, I was—my fiance and I were up…

@ak1: Thankfully, no. And I was at first very supportive of their staying friends—they had never dated and had been friends for a long time, so what was the big deal, you know? But it just became clearer and clearer that she was hoping that we would break up, and every year that passed that we didn't seemed to ramp up…

@ak1: This happened to me as well—at first I wasn't terribly concerned because they weren't technically involved, just very very close, but the first time I hung out with just the girl in question, she told me in no uncertain terms that she was going to marry my then-boyfriend when we graduated from college (note: we…

@Jessi Ramsey: I'm sadly still a little bitter that they cancelled Passions to air the fourth hour. At least that show knew it was pure camp—this is just pathetic.