Apparently I'm not happy because when I read this news previously I happened to look down mid-description and noticed a strange rash in the crook of my elbow.

That Richie Parker story is horrific. Did Trachtenberg offer to waive room and board, too, as long as they agreed to live on the same dorm floor and eat at the same cafeteria? Full disclosure: I'm a Hoya and over the years some of the Georgetown basketball players may not have been quite prepared for college-level…

I wonder if Angelina gasped when she saw that waiting for her at the end of the aisle.

Veruca Salt would feel right at home.

Not so much golden, but yes, pretty close.

I thought it meant, "You have a piece of spinach stuck between your teeth."

My beloved nana, RIP, died before Lena Dunham was born. Nonetheless I feel like she (my grandmother, not Lena Dunham) is often at my side, and as I looked at Lena Dunham in that strange too-early-for-Halloween costume (and what was she trying for? Something Bjork-ish?) I could almost hear her (my grandmother, not Lena…

I posted this comment on the Gawker main page: "I Led Three Lives - The Donald Sterling Story"

When we got our new male puppy he loved to be picked up and for the first month or so was in a constant state of excitement. I had lots of people over at various times to meet him and I was always holding the hound in my lap and he'd be licking my face in pure joy and they'd want to take pictures and I'd say, "um,…

Maybe the horse's companion is extolling the virtues of smaller government, and since neither of them can vote they might be excited about rolling back the welfare state and letting decent, honest, working people/equines get back to the job of making this country great again. More likely his companion is divulging…

I think the Queen wins if she can still change diapers at the age of 88.

When I was a little boy my mother, who was quite an accomplished knitter and seamstress, decided to teach me the crafts to calm me down and learn something useful and I think, as a six-year-old, I made that sweater. I know she used to give me all the leftover yarn and I'd make squares and then she would help me sew…

I'm an idiot. Apparently there is a post explaining this. Rape gifs? The mother(s) of the commenter(s) must be so proud.

I missed out on the whole no gifs/pics controversy. Why can't people post gifs anymore?

Somewhat related! We adopted a puppy a few months ago and he is kind of a boring ghost. Well, not really, he is quite an animated presence, more than visible to all. But every so often something boring will disappear, like a shoehorn, and my husband and I will accuse each other of mislaying it and then, as if by…

Here's something you might like. It's from a website previously unknown to me called familyfriendpoems. It's in the intro and I'm sure it's attributed to someone but not obviously so and I haven't changed a word so I hope the author will forgive the plagiarism. The source is given below.

I would have guessed Samuel Beckett, it's more Waiting for Godot.

I assume no one will ever read this reply but reply I must.

So now it's 1973 and a recession hits and everyone's laid off. SDCP closes down. Joan remembers that she has slept with the owner of a brewery in Milwaukee and Peggy remembers that she worked on the brewery's campaign. In reduced circumstances (because Peggy's apartment house on the Upper West Side is worth nothing,…

I keep hoping for the return of Sal myself. I don't know why but when they introduced the whole Southern California element and various characters started showing up out there I really believed that someone would run into Sal, who would be out and living with a man in late-1960s Santa Monica or Hollywood or somewhere,…