For the life of me, I can't figure out what happened to Donna Karan. For years, she showed up at stuff and looked classy, and suddenly it's all bare-breasted under a sheer black shirt and this dress features the outline of my nipples. Is she having a midlife crisis?

I loved loved loved this book! I read it a bunch of times the summer we moved to a new city and I had no friends. (It was much less pathetic than it sounds.)

@Usedtobealice: Fret not! The $13.99 amount represents the lowest possible monthly payment — the full price of the hammock and stand is $149.99.

@brendastarlet: I was completely captivated by every minute of Cranford, but by the end of Part Two, I was all SOMEBODY IN THIS TOWN BETTER HAVE A HAPPY ENDING OR I AM GOING TO KICK THE CRAP OUT OF SOMETHING OR SOMEONE.

In re: painting over the red soles of Louboutins, there's also the matter of sometimes wearing clothes that clash with red, making the cover-up both practical and non-braggy. ("I spent $800 on these shoes, bitches!")

Yes, Speedman looks hot on his bike, but I'm surprised someone who's a serious enough cyclist to use quick-release clipless pedals isn't wearing a helmet. My stepdad went over his handlebars last summer due to a collision with another cyclist and his helmet was trashed — if he hadn't been wearing it, he would have had…

I think it's a combination of her tininess and his being 6'4". One of the Stargate producers said when Jason chopped off his dreads, they weighed a total of six pounds. No wonder he was having neck problems!

When I was in library school (early 2007), there was a posting on the job board for librarians at the CIA. And even that posting had the funny wording about how technically you could tell people you were a CIA librarian, but you really should be v.v. careful about who knows it, meow meow meow.

I wish I could see the whole show; for whatever reason, Anderson is really good at that meaningless morning-show stuff. Once he was subbing right before Thanksgiving, and told a story about how his mother went out one day when Andy was a teenager and bought what she called a "Ca-MARR-oh," and ever since, he can't help…

So, Marlie isn't "datable" because she and douche are friends? He doesn't want to date her because then he wouldn't be able to make blowjob jokes in her presence? I am unable to decipher the language known as Douche.

The worst tattoo I ever saw was in the flash book of an artist at this place in Baltimore while my friend was deciding what to get. Remember the Fahrvergnugen stick figure Volkswagen used for their commercials in the late 1980s? That thing, pushing a lawn mower, next to a woman's pubic hair shaved in that…

I'm at the point where I think anyone who works with Paris in any capacity without slapping her into the gutter deserves some kind of award.

I'm not sure what it says about me that I fell for him in The Sum of Us, where he made out with another boy. That was back in 1996, and I went on a three-day, seven-movie binge, including a fucked-up evening where I watched a back-to-back marathon of The Quick and the Dead, Virtuosity, and Romper Stomper. A word of…

It's the usual VF Hollywood Issue cover: glum, over-styled, and whitewhitewhite. On the other hand, they got Ellen Page to wear a color other than black, which seems to be a Herculean task.

Ha! One of the gals at my knitting group yesterday said of Angelique, "It's like her beauty icon is Janice from Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem." Truer words have never been spoken.

As far as I'm concerned, everyone involved with Dynasty is golden. Jack Coleman? Golden. Heather Locklear? Golden. Joan Collins? Golden and crowned with diamonds.

@ MAEG: There are tons of non-wool yarns, everything from cotton to linen to soy fiber to corn fiber to acrylic.... Possibly the best resource for finding non-wool yarns (and how to use them to their best advantage) is No Sheep for You, by Amy Singer, who edits Knitty, the online knitting magazine. Like any new hobby,…

@TruculentAndUnreliable: I can only quote Fried Green Tomatoes: "The secret's in the sauce." *g*

@mightymouth: I know! Can you imagine having to listen to that voice ALL DAY? I feel really sorry for her staff.

I've actually thought about this: Maxima Hurtus. I would pass myself off as a reincarnated gladiatrix, oh yes I would.