I can speak authoritatively on this because we *just* lost a close family member on a Tuesday, and this really depends on how far people need to travel and how mobile they are. Saturday proved too early for the funeral in our case so we had to hold it on a Sunday, which left this strange Friday lull where everyone…

If you've spent 20 years building a show, you should have also built up enough maturity and sense of balance to be able to cope with minor annoyances, like dinner being held up, without acting like a petty tyrant toward junior staff. Leaders don't throw tantrums.

EXACTLY that thing happened at my office. All the women left and kept calling to check in and telling the management that we weren't coming back and that if they didn't call ConEd by the afternoon, we were going to do it. They were super-annoyed with us. But of course, there was a gas leak. IDIOTS.

I was honestly always fine with 15%, when I waited tables (but then again, I was not living on one of the coasts then). I don't go under 20%, but I think if you really wanted, you could probably write an xoJane post advocating for a 15% standard and be able to cobble together a solid enough argument to avoid looking…

The really weird part of this story, to me, is that this arrangement all came about because she lost her job, which I can't understand—it sounds like she would've been a really great nurse.

And in fairness, laughing at abuse is ALSO probably not the most sensitive response. Though in the sense that it deflates the abuser's sense of power to have a group of people laughing at him, I guess it's effective.

Threatening suicide in order to get what you want in a relationship is considered a form of abuse—or at least a warning sign of abuse. (http://www.domesticviolenceroundtable.org/warning-signs-…)

WTFuck does one have to do with the other, anyway?

No, you're totally right, she could just be shining it on for the PR folks.

Also unsurprising: the Bay Area is able to sustain a typewriter shop.

Counterpoint: a publicist acquaintance of mine was assigned to her during a multi-day junket/premiere cycle and said that she was one of the easiest celebrities (or "celebrities") she'd ever worked with. Not that it takes a genius to know that it's strategically wise to be nice to the publicists, but some people can't…

The more common version of that scam is where they pretend to be the front desk and ask you to re-state your credit card number over the phone. It may be that in this version of the scam they're just counting on you not being willing to go to the front desk at 2am, and to instead say "can't you just take my credit…

I'm from Kansas City, and never understood the gooey butter cake love. I think it's revolting. TOO MUCH of everything. And somehow the intense goo doesn't meld properly with the other ingredients, leaving you with a very dry crumb. It's the worst. On the other hand, I've also spent a lot of time in St. Louis, and will…

Oh God, I haven't used one of these in years. Suddenly I want to run out and buy immediately.

Oh God, I haven't used one of these in years. Suddenly I want to run out and buy immediately.

Yes—agreed. I use a couple of them because it's a good compromise between tint and decent moisture, but the taste is no bueno. There's one shade that I really do like for subtle color/sheen, though.

Yes—agreed. I use a couple of them because it's a good compromise between tint and decent moisture, but the taste is…

I didn't know they still made this!! I haven't seen it in years…it was always my favorite.

I didn't know they still made this!! I haven't seen it in years…it was always my favorite.

Natural consequences, kid!!

Sexual openness doesn't preclude "commitment," it just precludes commitment to the practice of monogamy, which is very important to some people and less important to others—just like most of the other big joint decisions in marriage. As for the hypothetical scenario I'm talking about, obviously I'd want to work out an…

OH. Yep—I've worked in that world in the past—non-profits do seem to be a bit more conscious about keeping employees to normal hours. (though a non-profit was also the first place I had the experience of being given another person's job to do on top of my existing job, without a corresponding pay increase. So you do…

We may be talking about two different kinds of power, here—I'm talking about emotional/psychological power, where he decides that he can declare that his condition has ended sex for both of them, unless she wants to abandon him (a far worse form of marital betrayal, IMO). So in that situation, she stays because it…