Fashion-y person Amanda Brooks discusses every time she went to the Met Gala in her book Always Pack a Party Dress. The whole thing is a big braggy but honestly the whole process sounds insanely stressful and unpleasant. My impression is that the Met Gala is not particularly enjoyable in itself, most of the enjoyment…

It was my understanding, perhaps incorrectly, that this guy wasn’t able to qualify for high level security clearance, given the fact that it’s pretty well-established that he’s not just the sort of white supremacist who posts horrible shit on the internet, but the sort who swears oaths of lifelong allegiance to…

Dear So-called “detox tea” manufacturers:

Clearly Miley Cyrus, as a child, could already afford better lawyers than her father. Or at least had enough computer skills to google “how to change your name in Kentucky” and spend ten seconds reading the answer so she doesn’t look like a complete and utter idiot.

I saw these and didn’t want to spend the money, so I took a silicone muffin liner I already had, sat it in the bottom of a rocks glass/tumbler with some water and Dr. Bronner’s soap, and held the liner in place while I ran the brushes across its grooves. I set up a second liner/glass with clean water for rinsing.

I saw these and didn’t want to spend the money, so I took a silicone muffin liner I already had, sat it in the…

It just stopped snowing where I live last week, and we never need AC. But 8 months of the year if our heat breaks we will die.

I’ve had two women aggressively try to pick up my long-term partner while I was sitting next to him. He helplessly looked for me to do something to end the awkwardness (and their boring conversation attempts) while I increasingly lost my shit laughing at how ridiculous and inappropriate the women were being. They were…

I just had a somewhat hilarious memory of high school me this week. I read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story Bernice Bobs Her Hair where the titular character, who is very popular with the boys, is convinced by her jealous cousin to cut off all her hair, whereupon the boys all wanted nothing to do with her. This…

I always thought the core value/theme of the Kardashian brand was tackiness, which manufactured personal drama absolutely reinforces. Totally on-brand - not watering it down at all.

I have no idea if Wyndham has got their shit together. I worked in a call center and there were no Wyndham hotels nearby, and based on my experiences working for them (so much incompetence on every level) I’ve actively avoided them, and have never actually stayed in a Wyndham hotel. I did hear really good things about…

It think it was either in Massachusetts or upstate New York.

It was the term they used when they no longer allowed the hotel brand to be used by a franchise - like they literally took the Marriott flag down outside. I have no idea if it’s an industry term, or was just an internal quirk of the call centre I worked at, but it’s how it was described when a hotel left the company.

This happened with my great grandfather and his brother’s wife, who got together after comforting one another when their respective spouses ran away together. My dad was an adult when he finally figured out why his grandmother was called “Aunt Lila.” Because she wasn’t actually his grandmother, and instead was his…

This explains so so much. I once bought a bottle of Absinthe that was 68% alcohol and we could never figure out how it was that our bodies got terribly drunk while our brains stayed so lucid. It was really strange rationally thinking, “huh... my legs don’t work. Like, at all. That’s strange. I guess I should sit back…

I did hotel reservations for both Marriott (and related chains) and Wyndham about a decade ago, and manning the phones, dealt with some customer service issues as well - particularly after hours. Both of those hotel chains franchise out. The difference was that Marriott were very strict and precise with their…

His dad lived to be 93, but had Alzheimer’s. If photographs are any indication, however, he took a lot better care of himself than Trump does. I can’t imagine obesity, compulsive television watching, a poor diet and only sleeping 4 hours per night are helpful for someone who might have a genetic predisposition to…

A lot of rumours (including stuff published on Gawker) that, while Trump does not drink, he’s pretty familiar with amphetamines. His sniffing during, what was it debate two? and his weird slow motion speech when he went to Mexico during the election seem like pretty good indicators he’s chemically altered at least…

Does the US not have Forensic Hospitals? Why was this guy in a prison?

In this political era, there seem to be three types of people

I’ve only flown an American airline once in my life, in the mid-90s - all other flights have been Canadian and European airlines. Even in the mid-90s the level of service was night and day. The American flight I took, the pilot actually announced at the beginning of the flight that the cabin crew were there for our…