Sometimes writers on that beat just give up because a) the PR machine ain't gonna let real get in the way of bland/safe, b) it gets tiresome to keep asking real questions and get Yes, I do like apple juice, especially in the morning! as an answer back to everything and c) editors often have a huge hand in what writers…

I still hear her voice every time I put on a garment that doesn't Wrinkle with Bodyhugging Tightness. "You could get 4 people in this thing! [picks at normal human t-shirt] Clinton, come into the hall of shaming mirrors and LOOK AT THIS." I blame her for the tireless trend of sausage-tight sleeveless sheath dresses. I…

But that wasn't supposed to be the point of the gaze as defined by the director. The need to always bring it back to men, to appropriate it, is not surprising, though.

Had a big crush on an arts writer/journalist. After he broke up with his girlfriend, he was on the phone to me the next week to ask me to a very cool concert the likes of which I could never ever afford on my freelancer's salary. I had to call my friend to get talked down from the ledge of What This Was (I should…

I agree. When I got married, my ex and I had a civil ceremony followed by tea in a hotel for about 20 relatives/close friends. Then a year later, after saving up, we had a church ceremony followed by champagne and canapes at a jazz bar. We paid for these parties ourselves, and I wanted to say "no gifts, just bring…

And I used to think Bridezillas was a slightly staged reality show.

Sometimes...but lots of times things are said to show people up and snark and pass judgment while sounding like butter wouldn't melt on their muffins. I lived in England for years. This much is true.

Middle Tennessee. Sadly.

My adopted home is the mid-south (grew up in the north) and I was flabbergasted when I went to a meat-and-three restaurant in town that was a landmark establishment, especially among the wealthy. Elderly African-American gentlemen, hunched over in crisp white coats, carried your food on trays from the buffet line to…

These rebuttals aren't "humor" but criminal threats that are against the law in some states. The people making these threats are sociopathic or otherwise mentally disordered—the context of reacting to a "comedy" set up is irrelevant. It's interesting that suddenly our country has decided that more than 25,000 women…

An F-3 tornado ripped into our downtown and my neighborhood in the late 90s and I'll never forget one moment of it. If you're "lucky" the terror takes just minutes but it means years of recovery. Our neighborhood had blue tarps on roofs for a couple of years (thankfully, my rental just had roof damage as the tornado…

I don't think you can argue that piracy isn't "theft" since it breaks a law. If you're arguing that there's no such thing as true "copyright" of ideas and artistic creations, and that there shouldn't be a federal law applied to creative output, then that's another issue. There are plenty of people—the Internet…

Good lord, there was nothing—zero—in your comment that read "entitled." You make a good point.

This just about sums up my revulsion to this show. It went so much deeper than "I don't like the plot line or the acting." Tried watching S1:E1 again thinking I was missing something, and couldn't make it to the credits. I can usually separate art from life and enjoy each on their own terms :) but the writing makes me…

This is a seriously, worrisome, ponderously fantastic post. It pretty much sums up my entire teens, 20s and 30s. One of the great reliefs of my life was getting older, ticking things off the I GOTTA DO THIS list, and then living through enough experiences to say I just don't give a crap anymore. Not that you don't…

Where did the Kardashians get their license to make money? I would like one, but my hair isn't glossy enough and my thighs are too chubby to qualify.

Wow, well done. What an accomplishment — which I would consider finished and achieved even though I'll bet most true runners won't, right? Just a little over a mile to go, argh but yes, so blessed that it was so. Glad you and yours were OK and so many good people stepped up to help.

I love this new interface! Now, how do we move fluidly between each area? When I'm in my blog, but want to visit Groupthink, how do I do that? And when I'm in Groupthink and want to check Jezebel, how do I do that? And is Powder Room the aggregator of all of the content across all of the areas?