This is a weird tip I read somewhere years ago, but I swear it works: After you’ve applied your lipstick, stick your finger in your mouth and draw it out. This will look extremely questionable, especially if done in public, but it works because it wipes the traces of lipstick on the inside of your lips that would…

If this happened a month ago, that would have put their breakup in mid-October, a month after the release of the movie. Did I say breakup? I meant contract dissolution. I did not believe for one second it would last past whenever people stopped taking about the movie. She has to start promoting Red Sparrow soon, so…

I don’t usually go anywhere for Thanksgiving, but I went to my brother’s last year, and it was weirdly stressful due to discussions about politics even though they weren’t arguments. I ended up hanging out with my brother in the kitchen (he’s the cook in the family) and talking to my dad about tv shows because neither…

I’m a hermit by nature, so the last sentence does not apply to me. Loneliness? Not a concept I understand, although I do have cats, so I’m not *completely* alone. And I don’t do A Meal, so the part about leftovers doesn’t apply, either. But everything else? Fuck, yeah. I think I’ve done Thanksgiving Dinner maybe five…

Slightly disagree. Not beloved seasonal classic. Beloved year-round classic. Turkey is quite frankly my go-to meat. I had a turkey melt for lunch today, in fact. And I had a turkey sandwich for lunch Monday, too. And now I’m craving this turkey curry dish I used to make in high school. I don’t do Thanksgiving meals,…

Whoops, I thought it was “don’t touch my *weed*.” And it still made sense to me. In fact, I think I prefer my version.

Solo Thanksgiving thread, anyone? Reading about people’s huge Thanksgiving gatherings is actually filling me with anxiety. Long ago, I ended up in a situation where I couldn’t get to family gatherings for the day for one reason or another, so I started just staying home with my cats, watching movies, and having snacks…

I’m only done with the second season, but, holy shit, The Americans is really becoming adorably quaint compared to what we can actually see happening at the highest level of whatever is passing for reality right now.

They’re usually just a dram or a nip, so they’re basically taster sets.

There was a whiskey one for a few years. I’m not sure if it’s still a thing, though. And there are a *lot* with beauty products, which quite honestly bring me more enjoyment than chocolate, but then again, my childhood Christmas countdown candies were Starlite peppermints.

The thing that drives me crazy about the new wave of advent calendars is that they’re almost all Twelve Days of Christmas, leading up to Christmas. But the Twelve Days are supposed to start on the day *after* Christmas and lead up to Epiphany aka Twelfth Day on January 6th! They’re doing both advent and Twelve Days…

Here: He’s got some life-threatening stuff going on. He had serious gastrointestinal bleeding back in January, but the doctors said he was too frail to operate on and sent him back to prison. Now he’s back in the hospital and probably in some serious pain that I’m going to go ahead and hope he’s not being…

I’m simultaneously excited to see what he does next and bummed at the realization that it’s likely to take another year for whatever it is to come out.

Damn it. Slate says it is, other places say it’s not. I don’t know. I do know that it’s made well enough that I can’t clearly say *of course* it’s fiction (unlike The Black Tapes or TANIS), and it would not surprise me to find someone like Bobby here. I’m in Portland, and I grew up here in the ‘80s. This guy’s story…

He’s in Massachusetts. I have a reason to be familiar with Stonybrook, aka the company whose name is on the sticker on the front of that machine.

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the Polybius Conspiracy series, part of Showcase from Radiotopia. It is absolutely batshit. Even if you’re already extremely familiar with the Polybius video game urban legend, this will cover entirely new ground because it’s about a guy who claims to have played the game.…

I highly recommend the series he wrote about the Orange County couple who framed a PTA mom at their son’s school for drugs because she did something so benign I can’t even remember what it was. It’s absolutley bonkers (and it’s just text, not a podcast):

I have a friend who feels the same way about Jonathan Pryce — who is also in this! I think he plays Dickens’ father.

I’m going to go ahead and call it now: Christopher Plummer is going to be known as The Man Who Saved Christmas in certain circles. Between The Sound of Music being a holiday classic, him playing Ebeneezer Scrooge in The Man Who Invented Christmas, and him replacing Spacey in Sony’s holiday film, there’s really no…

Parlato’s blog — where pretty much everything else on various news sites seems to be coming from — has the Kreuk link.