Exactly! Not only was she the first woman to head a major television studio AND had the foresight to plan for the still-nascent syndication market (most comedies were live but Lucy demanded I Love Lucy episodes be shot on film), she and Desi actively promoted opportunities for non-white creatives, including hiring…

Shelter Catstravaganza!

People are the worst.

Six hours with a can opener and the nuclear football.

Shelter Catstravaganza!

What have you been making lately? I got the Poilâne bakery book for Christmas, so I made bread, who would have ever guessed?

Honestly. Try to picture anyone else pulling off that hat. 

National. Fucking. Treasure. 

Her family is not Spanish and moved to Spain to retire. The fact that she gave another impression tells you all you need to know.

Well, no. Vacationing in Mallorca with your rich American family does not make a Massachusetts prep school graduate named Hillary into someone who would say “How do you sayee in eengleesh ‘coocumber?’” It’s not like visiting your relatives in Georgia and coming back saying “ya’ll” for a week.

What great things did you make for the holidays? We were going to do our regular Christmas eve fish dinner, but for two, but my husband and I looked at each other after delivering pierogi to relatives, and both said, I’m so tired. So we had some cod in the air fryer, went to bed early, and both slept for about ten…

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If I could take a moment to be more self-indulgent than I usually am...

And He Was Really Great

Did you cook, or buy, anything fun? I made some nice rosemary roasted garlic bread. Crusty and golden, with some nice blisters. We ate that with my dad’s spaghetti sauce, that’s what we always called it. Meat sauce with garlic and onions and red and green bells peppers, I left out the canned mushrooms, because I do…

Shelter Catstravaganza!

Yeah, you don’t need a hat like that in the Bay Area. I’m still wearing sandals if it’s not raining.

It’s Friday after 5. I’ve got whiskey. And you show up giving me props with Megan Mullally and Lester Bangs references?!

It’s no accident that hat matches her eyes. We all know that girl, whose value is wound too tightly around the axle of her eye-color and blondness. Vegas odds of her death by scalp-bleaching or compliment-starvation are even-money.

All she needed was a gingerbread latte.