because of this, my mom used to get two presents each year for my cousins who were born on Christmas & New Years. she didn't want them to feel like they'd been cheated, even if it was cheaper & we didn't have much money.

my roommate is a halloween baby, and though i can't say he's any MORE bitter than usual (he's kind of curmudgeonly), he did tell me that until he was about 5, he thought everybody dressed up in costumes and asked for candy on their birthdays.

i'm also a little lady, and never had a thigh gap on account of being a latina with fuller hips & thighs. not huge, just fuller for a very petite frame. that being said, the one time i got even *close* to a thigh gap because i had been working out, i saw my mom after 3 weeks of intense cardio & yoga sessions, and the…

my Mom and her friend bought those Sketcher shoes because they wanted to get a "pompis like Kim Kardashian." they'd go for these little 1 mile walks at the local park, thinking they could engineer a Kardashian-sized bubble butt by willpower & Sketchers-sponsored magic. sad.

THANK YOU FOR THIS. I was like, since when has the Taco Truck become something to flock to? Just a few years ago I remember all these cries about "is it sanitary?" being on the news and "are they safe?" on account of people getting shot cos of drive-bys while they were waiting for their food. (Oakland Jezzie…

there was a dude at hardly strictly bluegrass this weekend selling "medicinal" ;) enormous jolly ranchers for $5, no codeine, all herbal, and whooeee were they strong. last year they were chocolate truffles but the dispensaries undercut him, so he's on to greener pastures, so to speak.

she's a backup dancer for the chick who does that single ladies video or something?? also she has great 70s diana ross hair. think that about covers it. oh also go on youtube and find Lovers in the Parking Lot and listen and swoon.

NASTY MEATS FTW. i ate so much sopresatta in sicily one day i almost barfed in the Tyrrhenian Sea. no regrets.

we actually feed the "bad parts" to our dog Chip. he effing loves them, and they're way more healthy for dogs than most dog foods that are loaded with grain instead of proteins.

my mind just starts to wander when it comes to handies. i cannot tell a lie. give it more than a few minutes and i'm more interested in thinking about politics, outer space, good halloween costumes....

I FELL FOR IT, TOO.

and some have the audacity to call it "news"

this whole thread just makes me miss my cat, Cthulhu. my landlord made me get rid of her :'(

his name was Cyrus. he was adorable. he played bass and when i told him that i, too, had a fledgling all-girl band, he started making me hand written tabs of his favorite songs (bass tabs only, he apologized). he was so funny and cute, but he always had a girlfriend and i was the nerdiest nerd in all the land—but for…

I think the "a little too daring" is a side-eye at the Daring Book for Girls, which came out a few years after the Dangerous Book for Boys. I bought the latter for my brother, and he is now 16 and still uses it as a reference book lol. The former is basically the same as the book written for boys, with minor changes…

The issue with costumes like the "Little Amigo" and the "Geisha" is that it is reducing an entire people's culture, which has a historical context and rich past, and boiling down to a cheap caricature by which the general populace will now identify them. I know that zarapes do not look the same throughout Mexico, and…

Aww a fairy tale!

Bombay Sapphire dresses well, has an apartment with a view, smells great, but his furniture just graduated from Ikea to West Elm and he still quotes rap lyrics, using phrases like "hit it and quit it."

Forgetting that the CARPET IS LAVA!! EVERYONE ON THE CARPET IS GOING TO GET BURNT UP!

Forgetting that the CARPET IS LAVA!! EVERYONE ON THE CARPET IS GOING TO GET BURNT UP!