Why is there a Miss World pageant and a Miss Universe pageant? Does the latter also allow aliens from other planets to compete? Because otherwise it makes no sense.

Slightly OT, but I believe your anecdote is about John Ruskin and his wife Effie Gray. Apparently he had never seen a naked woman in the flesh before - only in statues and paintings - and was unpleasantly surprised at the reality.

Yay!

Seriously. 385 retweets?

I would definitely sign that petition.

I just started it a few days ago. It's amazingly written but parts of it are so difficult to read. The National Book Award was well-deserved.

So apparently Taylor Swift won some big country music award last night, but can her music still be classified as 'country'? I feel like she's fully crossed over into pop now.

Right, that makes more sense :) I thought he actually looked like that in the movie...which would have been kind of terrifying!

He's pretty strongly anti-choice:

What the fuck is that picture real??

Because she makes her the most money.

I believe it was Khloe - she had a DUI or something. And yes, I'm ashamed that I know that :)

Have you ever been on Jezebel?

I highly doubt it's a publicity stunt.

Did anyone actually call him Uncle Joey? I thought he was just a close family friend and called simply Joey, unlike Uncle Jesse who was actually their uncle. (Apparently that's my main takeaway from this post.)

Some good options currently streaming on Netflix: Love Actually, Friends with Kids, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Butter, Adventureland, Lost in Translation, Little White Lies, Young Adult, Bachelorette, Our Idiot Brother, 50 First Dates, The Kids Are All Right, She's All That.

Oh my god I remember that book!! I read it in second grade and for some reason it scared the fuck out of me.

She was also great in Barfi!, in which she played a character with autism.

Oh yeah, didn't think of that. :/ I know Kate Winslet, for one, worked with him just a couple of years ago. And I think Emma Thompson (who I forgot on my list but I know she's called herself a feminist) might have signed the petition. Damn it!

Wow, I didn't know about the Dalai Lama. That's pretty cool.