I love to smoke but I’m way too paranoid to indulge while in another country. I don’t want to be deported!

Who cares what they think? People take bad photos all the time, but if you get that upset specifically over travel photos, that’s just jealously. I Instagram things I like and think are cool when I’m in a new place, and mostly I don’t get any likes, but I like being able to document it in one place (also helpful when…

I think you just answered your own question. You question why heels = power, then feel glee over being taller than someone even though you’re in flats. It’s that height = power, not heels.

It was *not* posted to Jezebel. Did you miss that part? What, do you work for Gawker or something? I hardly think I’m “saddling” a blog by saying I’m disappointed the site didn’t post it.

Jezebel frequently covers (or used to) major news events. I would think a devastating earthquake that killed over a thousand people would be one of them. I merely said I was disappointed they didn’t cover it and I acknowledged their primary focus is on gossipy stuff. I do not, and would never, go to Gawker for my news…

But they didn’t cross-post it. I don’t read Gawker (can’t stand the commenters).

I know this is primarly a gossip site, but I was disappointed Jez didn’t cover the Nepal earthquake. I experienced two smaller quakes this week, two days in a row, and I was scared. I can’t imagine the terror people are feeling in Nepal.

Ask your PCP for a script to help with the fear. Don’t ask for xanax by name, just talk about how terrified you are to fly and usually they give you enough for the flights to get you through.

I never knew they cut the engines. I would hear them die and immediately start panicking and thinking the plane was going down.

Same. .5mg of Xanax and the plane looks beautiful as we’re taking off. Then I fall asleep. I figure if there’s an emergency, it’s highly unlikely anyone would survive anyway. It sure beats staying awake on a long-haul, terrified and unable to sleep.

Loeb also made that nasty comment to Sofia at the Oscars or some award show about her “showing her ass to everybody,” or something. I thought even then that she deserved way better and he was awful.

I hear stuff like this and I wonder how people can even question that we live in a misogynistic society. I won’t even watch shows like CSI, et al because all too often the victim is a woman. I wonder if anyone has done research on this, recording the number of times the victim character is a woman vs. a man. Women are…

This is awesome. But how do I meet NZ guys and girls when I’m here by myself? Is my best bet Tinder? Also, sometimes I might want to hang out and have a drink, not necessarily hook up.

Don’t worry - my mom had me at 42 (an accident) and is still alive. I will admit, though, that as a child I constantly worried about her dying because she was older than everyone else’s parents. I still worry about her of course, but I was quite the anxious kid.

I’m loving SheDoes right now, as well as Nerdette and Death Sex & Money.

I recently had my eyebrows threaded for $15 here in NZ. As weird as it is for me not to tip, they do not have the culture of it here. It is incredibly freeing not to have to tip because the exchange is less fraught with anxiety. I don't have to obsess and worry. I know this doesn't help anyone in the U.S. but I dread…

I thought it was creepy when I read Paul Walker commented, on re-connecting w/ his daughter after missing her younger years, that it was weird because she “was grown up and had breasts now.” Maybe it’s just me but the idea of a father thinking about her body like that and then publicly commenting about it made me feel…

They'll see it on the x-ray but who cares, right? Just smile and look them in the eye. I would never check a sex toy though, carry-on is safest.

Ughhh please don't fuck this guy again!!!

I live in a building now with absurdly thin walls. I hear my neighbors cough, rustle their bags, almost everything. My one neighbor constantly plays music or TV/movies very loudly, made worse by the walls. I hear *everything.* As in, every line to a show. I know she watches the Kardashians, OINTB, etc. One time she…