I'm not a fan because I feel like she is a construction made to order for the male gaze. She's all straight man fantasy, from the delicious lips and the baby talk and sultry voice to the "its all for you" and the sexy sexy bedroom eyes. it's as if they did market research and she came up as the most desirable indie…

I completely agree. That's why the whole nagging thing is so fucking infuriating. He (ok, we're talking about Mr. Tangerine now) says he'll do a thing that I'm depending on. Then he doesn't do it. And I nag about it. And suddenly I'm the one who's doing damage to the relationship. I have learned (thank god) to call…

I'm sure we could have a whole entire thread of the way marriage and the world effed up our names. Mine was when I legally changed my name but socially didn't. My thought was that Mr. Tangerine and I would technically have the same last name (for legal ease) but everyone will still call me by my former name if I…

That is AMAZING. I've never heard of that before and if it works, that has to be the absolute most magical thing ever. I'm totally making a fire to try it. Does it work in all fireplaces? You just hold the letter on the shovel (over the fire?) and the letter just flies away? Doesn't it fall back down in 30 seconds?…

I think these are nice kids. That little girl is really trying to hold it together here. To be fair, I think she's genuinely disappointed (and of course she should be, she was expecting a wonderful special present) and she's trying so hard to manage her disappointment without being ungrateful. "But why would you eat…

so absolutely hearted.

Here's my take on spanking. And I'm talking about the non-abusisve, open-handed-flat-on-the-booty kind...

Hee heee.

It's a really great phone!! :)

Oh my god, I have broken 3 phones! And Mr. Tangerine lives in my house! He pisses me off, I slam down the phone and it shatters. It's extra sucky because we've re-bought the same Pottery Barn old-timey-looking phone 3 times. I've started buying them used on ebay. My walk of shame is opening up ebay and typing P-o-t…

Because taller people have more cells to get cancer in? Do heavier people get more cancer than lighter people, too?

"Is there a Taco Bell in Florida?" Well, now, that's just adorable.

I think she's remarkably poised and is doing such a great job of this. Here's a question I have: do people *teach* a person like Elizabeth Smart to be a pundit? That is, is she extensively taught how to have poise and speak in complete sentences and to have graceful language about the questions they'll be asking?…

We were really delighted when my baby seemed to go giddy over Gillian Welch. How hip and indie and cool of our baby. I then found out that my baby seems to just enjoy the genre of bluegrass which we think shows that he has a non pretentious appreciation for roots music, and since we live in the south, it seems…

Amen. My son is adopted and his only father is my husband. If the dude who got my son's birthmother pregnant is walking around the world thinking "I have a son out there..." well, bless his heart, but he is pretty unclear about what a father and a son is. I respect his right to wonder and to think about my baby and to…

I don't wear deodorant or antiperspirant. I don't know exactly why I stopped, partly because of the aluminum, partly because I was using the natural products and they didn't work very well, and partly because Julia Roberts once said on Oprah that she doesn't wear deodorant and I was like, "that's it, me either." So I…

I kind of think she's wearing them because she's a celebrity (ok, so she's royalty, whatever) and they're one of those things that celebrities wear for the camera that regular people tend to not wear on a daily basis: nude hose, false eyelashes, airbrush tan and/or body makeup, extensions (on white peeps), 5" heels,…

I would have asked a girl question, too. Here's why — I'm around dudes all the time and I have heard all of their stories about how to get ahead. You know what I haven't heard much of? Professional men who can tell you what to do when there's a 3 hour meeting you can't miss and you have a 4-day old baby who needs to…

PERFECT!!! hearted!

Yes. I play a funnyish person from time to time and I've made jokes that were easy to make that I didn't mean.