As much as I love Katya, her aesthetic does not always blow me away. When she's doing just tacky, "problem prints", weird eyeball necklaces and stuff, I live. But her "glamour" looks tend to leave me going "ehhh." This look was a lot like her "future" look in that it made her look older and heaver than she is without…

I have seen Alaska once (at a BOTS show) and she really won me over but I think that's because she didn't do just straight lip sync -she did a hilarious Snatch Game and participated in all the little skits and activities and was very much the highlight of the show. But I could see that she might leave one a little…

I respect a lifelong Hawaiian shirt thing- you're like Joey Jeremiah from Degrassi or any buddy in an 80's movie. The "trying to give off a laid back vibe" part might be why they turn me off- I've been in too many arguments with my dad in a Hawaiian shirt….the dude is not and has never been laid back! But I talk a…

It really is just so good. I wouldn't even consider it "true crime" although that is how I came to find it. Like Phoebe said, no story is too small but sometimes they seem small when they start but then by the end you're so happy to have heard it. I love the one about the Buddha statue, and the recent one about…

I'd argue they hurt me, in my eye region. They are not particularly flattering (even if someone is thin, the shirt suggests they are hiding an old man gut so I just assume it's under there somewhere) and the patterns are by their very nature very corny. I'd just have a little trouble finding a man attractive in one,…

From my memory of one of his books, it basically sounds like the first bit of his life was pretty boring, and that he basically sought a more interesting life by becoming a heroin addict. I'd take the post-heroin, celebrity chef part of this life only!

The flavor of Bun Bo Hue I like, but I can't with the blood cake and the hoof. I'm just too uptight and white to get into it, I feel like a failure with my very boring, blood cake-less (but delicious) pho.

This isn't terribly on topic but recently I went to see some bands, punk-leaning loud bands, playing at the normal time in the night for such things, and a man had his 7 year old son there (in headphones) SITTING ON THE STAGE. While bands were performing. The kid wasn't even enjoying himself, but the dad still thought…

I have a friend who's Chinese and we were talking about the different approaches different countries take just in regards to kids- she said that when she visits China, she sees everything is just in deference to the child and so that would track with letting them run loose, and just generally run things. I was talking…

I guess they meant he was non-judgmental of the "world he inhabits" meaning whatever locale he's visiting, not the entirety of the world including the other celebrity chefs he bags on.

Yeah, it does seem like semantics. Dan also tends to blow off sex addiction as reality (I can't remember the Dr. talking on it but it seems he would agree, if he's using the same "no withdrawal" standard) While, no, it's not the same as physical drug addiction, people can seek both porn and sex compulsively, in a way…

What is the deal with Hawaiian shirts. My husband is 40 and hasn't succumbed but all the guys he knows who are slightly older rock them like there's no other solid, short sleeved button up shirts out there. Is it just a thing that happens and there's no way to fight it?

Exactly, they view the world through a very particular prism and don't seem themselves as entitled but just consider their list of sexist, unrealistic demands to be their sexual inclination and of course Dan would encourage them to go for it.

Me, too. I love all the other Kanye albums but never revisit this one. But maybe I will one day, I used to always dismiss Late Registration as my least favorite but I've come around to it.

I was recently looking into this because my friends said that Elvira lost her virginity to Tom Waits and that she's on that album cover. Well, it turns out, she lost her virginity to Tom JONES and it's unclear if she's on the cover of that album or not.

I don't get it either but I never thought of his voice as nasally but I guess it is. There are definitely bands that I "should" like that I can't get into because I don't like the singer's voice so I'm accepting it that way.

He does appear to be one of the few white men that age without one.

Exactly, SNL can be funny around election times but they are never going to be especially hard hitting or nuanced. They go with what is most easily mocked. And they have mocked Hillary for her less-than-warm persona, not being charismatic, being too desperate for the presidency or feeling "owed it." Those are things…

What was with the drummer, was his drum kit just unusually tiny? I have a very small drum kit (it claimed to be adult size but many have questioned it) and even when I'm wailing on it I don't look like I'm jamming as hard as that guy. I don't get that kind of music but it seems like mopey reggae and/or rap influenced…

It one thing to make gross jokes. I'm even a little eye rolly when people are like "GOOD men would NEVER joke this way!" because, I've known plenty of good guys who make crass jokes. But, the difference is that he was stating that he does these things, the forced kissing and grabbing. And even if, as he claims, it was…