She and Lisa Simpson were two of my Lesbian Shitass role models as a kid. The 90s were pretty awesome in a lot of ways, now that I think about it.

I don't see why this is worse or more surprising than any other minister/priest/etc who sexually abuses children. I think predators in these types of situations do it for one of two reasons: (1) they sign up because they explicitly want easy access to children, or (2) they are deluded and think that if they dedicate…

My parents live in the part of RI near where Taylor Swift bought that house. Someone I know rang her up at a gas station and emailed me that she was polite and bought gum...it was weird.

I'm not a POC but the choir thing does bug me. I always feel like it's done to make the white person (Michael Bolton etc) look more "soulful," whatever that means. To me it's kind of like the magical black person trope in movies: a group is "othered" but also made to seem somehow mystical or like it can imbue some…

Any drummers out there? A friend gave me a practice pad & some 5B sticks. What exercises do you recommend?

I have had a couple beers and just realized I really need to pluck my eyebrows. I KNOW what a bad Idea this is but I am totally going to do it anyway.

Not to be completely naive, but do we know if Dodai wanted the job? If it's a lot more work, and she is working on another non-Jezebel project (writing a book or a play, restoring a classic car, designing a line of accessories...) maybe she wasn't interested in it. I mean, my Mom turned down/didn't pursue…

They never think they'll get caught. It takes a special type of deluded narcissist to want to be featured on a Real Housewives type show.

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll look into AT&T when the time comes. Verizon is just one headache after another.

I used to take Zoloft and I was also on Prozac for a bit. The side effects for both put me off them. Zoloft was night sweats and stomach trouble. Also, I was VERY depressed but once I started on it I stopped crying. I just felt like I couldn't cry anymore and that was upsetting to me. I went off that in favor of…

The dish detergent smells really good.

I have been having a frustrating, freakout kind of day. Verizon shut my phone off even though I paid up two days ago, and then the CSR was rude to me. This is a big deal because lately my income is all from temp and background acting work, and you get calls & texts at weird times for that stuff. It took a while but…

I think for some people it's not that they don't want to look good, it's that they have an ethical problem with some things that are par for the course in the fashion world. Like using Uncle Terry as a photog, using young teens as models for clothes that are ostensibly for adults, exploiting models from poor…

They have to manufacture "conflict" somehow. He will probably figure that out for himself and leave poor Jon Cryer at the altar.

The other issue is that a predator could look for unattended children in the children's section of a library. When I was a library volunteer, there had to be at least one adult volunteer or employee in the children's section at all times, to keep an eye on things. You couldn't leave to walk a patron to another…

Oh smoking hot blondes...when will you learn to stay away from douchebags?

The old joke is that Americans think, "Someday my kid could grow up to be President!" but Canadians want something better for their kid than to end up as PM.

I know...I just feel like anyone who's watching an All-Star Game is watching it to see stars hit and score runs. And particularly as it's Jeter's last one, I'm not sure why anyone cares about this. Doesn't the AL usually win anyway? I just don't really see what the issue is. People aren't upset that Wainwright did it,…

It's not even a real game, it's the All-Star Game...

Heigl started off really young, and I can see parents wanting to make sure some creep wasn't handling their kid's money. At some point, I think it does get weird though. It's probably not healthy to never separate from your parents.