The Best Actress in a Movie Drama category is all women who are over 40 (well, Kate Winslet is 38): Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Judi Dench, Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet (the same can actually also be said for the Best Actor in a Movie Drama category as well).

This woke my girls, who are not amused.

I don't know when Canadian Thanksgiving falls—but I know it's not today! This year we're snubbing US Thanksgiving by crossing the border to Windsor for a Vietnamese dinner. (Plus a side trip two blocks over to an Italian bakery for cannoli and freshly baked pannetone.)

Still feels weird to have to show an enhanced MI…

We don't feel like dealing with Thanksgiving this year, and so are going to Windsor for dinner.

I know. These are first-ring suburbs that grew out of the need to house factory workers near the car and parts plants for Ford. It was said that Dearborn (white people) = dear + born = valuable. Inkster because, yeah. Likely folklore, but still. Given Henry Ford's anti-Semitism, I'm surprised there's not a 'burb…

I actually think it took so long because the Wayne County Prosecuter's office wanted to craft a very tight indictment, especially important because the Dearborn Heights police seem to have royally fucked this up.

Dearborn Heights isn't remotely affluent; little tract houses built for line workers at now-defunct Ford plants. It's demo is pretty damned white—it hasn't been significantly impacted by the significant Chaldean immigration into Dearborn proper, nor has their been any influx across the border from Inkster, the…

Last year at about 2 am some guy showed up on my front porch shouting and banging loudly enough that I heard him from the second floor. I woke my husband, and he went downstairs, peered out and said that the man seemed disoriented. He asked the guy if he was OK, and the man just kept shouting incoherently. Maybe he…

I couldn't figure it out. I asked various baristas and pumpkin spice latte consumers if there was any pumpkin flavor in there or if it was just spices. Varying answers. At one place the barista handed me the bottle of syrup they used. The ingredients were sugar, HFCS, and "pumpkin spice flavor." No help there.…

And there's whole founder-with-Nazi-past thing, too—which didn't stopped this Jewess with a newly rescued furniture-eating sighthound mix from acquiring the reasonably attractive Ektorp couch (the fake Pottery Barn style). With a decent tan slipcover, only $320 at the October Ikea Family Price—-which I supplemented…

There's a complicated rubric used to name Ikea products. My personal favorite is that used for lighting, which are named using "terms from music, chemistry, meteorology, measures, weights, seasons, months, days, boats, nautical terms." I have an as yet unassembled, really cheap pole lamp named "Not," which just fills…

My much-missed dearly departed greyhound Chatty was nicknamed "Baryshnikov" because he danced and spun around for at least 2 minutes trying to find the absolutely perfect target on whatever tiny patch of ground he'd decided was poopworthy.

The Greyhound Princess appears serenely oblivious of what's going on at that…

You've clearly read a lot of Derrida.

Genius name.

During the nights we slept with the baby on the bed and the placenta was placed next to the bed.

Redacted, because I should read through threads before posting. Tabitha beat me to my quote! No need for me to be redundant; nothing left to see here.

Keelan? Is that a real name now? I apologize if it's a family surname.

LI don't think this woman should be forced to serve or penalized, but I'm compelled to state the obvious: The majority of mothers who don't have husbands/partnershave to work to support their children. They don't have a choice.

Brett Ashley is a 28 year-old urban professional born in the southern United States who has been moving between major metropolitan cities ever since. She blogs under a pseudonym to protect the innocent (and not so), and has a penchant for bad television, good wine and Hemingway references.