After tomorrow night, I will’ve been legit drunk four times in the last 2.5 weeks, which is pretty unusual for me. BUT, a wedding, then a “fuck it I need to hear a band” night, then a downtown event that turned into an extended party night, and then early Thanksgiving, which, there’ll be shouty kids and wine is…

I wondered today where all my Bobby pins had gone

Yes, labs want no part in this. The insemination happened when the reproductive lab made embryos. No lab will do that without signed consents and no legal question (verbal withdrawal). Also, no lab will implant an embryo without signed consents and no legal question either. If there is ambiguity whether part of a…

This is really sad. I hope they are able to confirm either way for the sake of their families getting some closure. And before the asshole pile on starts, please everyone remember that teenagers are still SUPER IMPRESSIONABLE CHILDREN. They might like to think they know everything and make great choices, but, they…

So, I can understand not using the term “alien”, because it basically strips people of their humanity and makes them seem different and completely unlike us.

Urrrrgh. However, I can’t hate on him for saying complimentary things about his girl, esp when it’s stuff in the vein of “hey you guys might dismiss her as a dumb hot model type, but she’s actually really smart/cool/etc.”

Okay, now that’s getting firmly into Mickey Rourke territory.

Depends on whether she signed the documentation regarding surrogacy. You can’t back out of that shit half way through.

Yes it is. She signed the contract to be responsible for the child.

Can’t argue with that.

Um, actually, it is far far far from ideal to treat puppies and/or other living creatures as disposable consumer objects...

I think they used an egg donor and a surrogate.

that is correct. the surrogate was also the egg donor. the sperm is her ex’s though.

Why pseudo-macho? That’s macho.

I really want to tour these smaller festivals in conservative areas. The Anthony Bourdain of doom if you will.

This is a good article. I often get into arguments with Kotaku readers about what is “pandering.” They complain that having female or queer or people of colour main characters is “pandering.” I respond that when white dudes are the default, the culture industry is pandering to them. Very frustrating.

Literary fiction has largely been monopolized by dusty MFA programs dominated by white men. Aside from the obvious injustices of such a system, it also has another fault worth noting. THEIR SHIT IS BORING. When “serious writing” is no longer protected by the white male university system and successful writers depend…

On one hand I wish that there were more articles that focused on the legitimately cool places in LA, where no one is wearing athleisure or sipping liquid quinoa, but I’m simultaneously glad for these articles so that the places that make LA feel even slightly cultured continue to go unnoticed.

Please don’t co-op white culture by stealing Jerry Seinfeld’s catch-phrase.

An entire column dedicated to explaining one coast to another? I hope that’s tongue-in-cheek.