Yes, thanks for expressing this, I'm right on board with your sentiments. I've absolutely given up on people who snidely insinuate that I don't watch "Girls" because I'm an uptight prude or anti-feminist; it's much more that it bores me to tears with its faux sexual radicalism and narcissistic privileged white girl…

But then of course there is the story of our neighbors, who have lived in various parts of the country, moved up here from Queens 6 years ago, and announced to me that they were so frustrated with our weather that they were flat out selling their house and leaving. They had endured enough. They have jobs that can…

An extremely unwalkable part of Westchester county NY. And I can't believe you live in Costa Mesa! I was at a publishing industry event in LA in the 90s and had some stupid author lunch at a fancy restaurant there. All I can remember was eating with Anna Quindlen and Sue Grafton and being so afraid of getting into…

Please, please tell me where you got those spectacular dog coats! Do you have a website link? I have a skinny hound.

Quit yer bitchin' (says the freezing woman in Westchester).

Please, please tell me where you got those spectacular dog coats! Do you have a website link? I have a skinny hound.

Yeah, we had a very suspicious pee spot on our living room floor last night. Poor little guy really doesn't want to go out.

I live just north of NYC and I ordinarily do not mind the cold (I originally hail from Montana and Minnesota), but we just got a new shelter/rescue dog who has very little fur (not to mention he's a little underweight), and even with his dog coat, he shivers uncontrollably for about a half hour after coming in from…

"Lovemaking"—there, I fixed that for you.

I'm surprised a cat would even wait an hour. And I actually am a cat owner.

I honestly wish that someday my pets would get along this well. Our two cats have ruled the roost for eight long years, and we brought an energetic, one year old hound mix into our house just before Christmas. Even though he was advertised as "gets along great with cats", he now tries to kill them on a daily basis. …

Where are the Daleks when you really need them?

Yes, I thought that film did a great job of normalizing (at least within the context of the movie) the Keanu/Diane connection. He seemed authentically attracted to her, it wasn't a jokey visual gag, there was sexual tension between them, and the other characters in the movie (other than Keaton, of course) clearly…

If I were out of the greys I would post that short clip where Goldie Hawn, in "The First Wives' Club", very succinctly talks about the three kinds of roles for women in Hollywood: "Babe, District Attorney, and 'Driving Miss Daisy'."

I was trying to explain this all to my (mostly bald) husband and he was like, "what's a man bun?"

For about three or four years straight a whole bunch of us who had gone to the same high school (but different colleges all over the country) would converge somewhere in our home town for New Year's Eve.

Don't iPhones have a new "Teeth Whitening" photo manipulation app? I think it's listed right next to "Fix Your Wallpaper".

#notallhats

Good to hear that you're starting to move on to a different place. I actually had a somewhat similar situation happen to me many years ago.

Shit, my parents don't even know what the Internet IS, and they're not even that old! Good for you (and your dad).