p sure that the content of the name - aka that it is a derivative of the Spanish word for "hilarious" - is what is funny about this, not that it is a ~strange foreign name~, though. Like, if his name was Laugh Riot, it would be equally funny (or quite possibly moreso).

I am so sad that Mandy Moore - who was not only in Saved!, but also the adaptation of TWO Sarah Dessen novels into one movie, in which she had the most amazing pixie cut nobody else ever pulled off, including me circa 2004, AND ALSO a weird movie with Elijah Wood and Franka Potente - is having a hard time right now.…

I never knew that much about him (being far more on the "can I listen to this without thinking about it too hard? Great!" side of the music spectrum) so that is so disappointing, because MM just seems sane and funny and talented, and deserves someone who isn't up his own ass about how cool he is.

Mandy Moore is one of my favourite celebrities and I am heartbroken for her because I really thought those kids were gonna make it. :(

YES. omg. Nobody understands why the most-replaced brush in my collection is the eyebrow brush, but it's because nobody makes those motherfuckers with daily use in mind! The amount of time I spend on eyebrow maintenance is truly appalling (and would probably be less but I'm vain).

And, genuinely, a point that I would love for the author to address. I mean, it's Gawker's website and presumably their authors can do what they want, but it would be nice to know which ones are going to be douchecanoes so that I can avoid their articles...

When I first read the article, I saw a bunch of posts asking this same question (which I think is a fair one, considering the ambiguity of consent for both the sex act AND the recording). I think they're gone now.

Her eyebrows KILL ME. It's such a small thing, but they are SO TERRIBLE.

My friends and I spend most of our Arrow-watching-parties yelling at Katie Cassidy's character for being THE WORST (or just not being Felicity). It's a good thing everyone else on that show is so comparatively good...

The panic attacks are seriously the worst. I have both panic and anxiety disorder (some of my doctors have suggested that a lot of people with moms like ours are predisposed to these to some extent), so I'm pretty high-strung as a rule, and I just dread the out-of-control panic that comes with family issues.…

I have to say, the worst part of my mother's mental illness was, for me, the instinctive belief that I was responsible for her happiness (and, by corollary, I ruined her life: By being born, by not being perfect, by being a child when she needed an adult around, etc). It took me years after our estrangement to even…

I once mentioned something she had said in a restaurant while we were eating dinner. Cue the ten-minute yelling, crying rant about how I was an ungrateful liar who just constantly tried to make her look bad.

Honestly, I can't imagine being in your situation and still being coherent. I think whatever you do, you need to make sure that you are taking care of yourself. It is an amazing and loving thing to care for someone in need, but you can't give them your physical or mental health; the illness just takes out two people…

One of the problems was that she refused to take her medication because it ruined her manic phases, and she didn't believe she really needed the help. She was into New Age, though - lots of alternative therapies (I also had to go through with these, against my will), crystal healing, reiki, acupuncture, etc. None of…

Not too personal, don't worry. I'm not in touch with her at all. I first broke off contact when I was about 20 (I'm 29 now), but a few years later, my sister pleaded with me to reconcile before I left for grad school, so we were in touch for a few years until I decided that she hadn't changed and I couldn't handle the…

That sounds horrible, and I am so sorry you had to deal with that - I am lucky-ish in that my parents divorced when I was 10, which gave my dad the time away from the insanity to get over his own serious issues and actually become a responsible parent and person. But thanks to my mom's interference, it took us a…

I got that one too, when I was a teenager. Or, more often, "I never said that! You just make things up!" Once, when I had proof she had promised something to me (my sister had heard it), she literally said to me, "You extorted that promise out of me. It doesn't count." (The promise, BTW, was to ask her to stop…

The black and white thinking, good grief, yes. "You did this, that means you hate me." I got that all throughout my life, followed by crying and speeches about how she wanted to run away and abandon everything. Which was not that great for an 11-year-old to hear. A therapist once told me that that kind of…

For a second, I thought I had already posted to this thread, because you described my mother to an absolute tee. The BPD/BD combo really seems to encourage that delusional self-preservation - the number of times I have brought something up, only to be screamed at that "I never said that!" or "That didn't happen!" is…

I actually signed up for a Kinja account because of this comment. It is exactly right - what you said, "heart-wrenching, not natural and very hard," is completely true.