We’ve got self checkout AND mail delivery. No side-eye required. ETA: Kansas has a LOT of things wrong with is, but my experience with our libraries (Here’s looking at you, TSCPL and Lawrence Public Library) is that they are ON POINT.

Thought crossed my mind, too. I wonder if she thinks Lena Dunham fills that slot. (Please note: I do not think Lena Dunham is chubby in any universe.)

Check the library. It’s where I get all my shame reading.

I nearly lost my coffee over that. Hilarious, and so true.

Hahaha. Your July 4th celebration sounds WAY better than hers to me. Baseball! Fireworks! Probably some sketchily cooked hot dogs! That’s what it’s about.

My sympathies to you re: hangover. I have vowed to not have one again after drinking an entire bottle of champagne at my friend’s wedding last month and terrifying the one nice groomsman of the bunch.

Can we talk about that for a moment? I don’t have kids, but I don’t QUITE get the point of a well-themed first birthday party. Getting family and friends together for cake and punch and beer and presents? Sure. We did that for my cousin’s baby (who I accidentally call my niece ALL THE TIME), but, like, there weren’t…

True, but we know these people IRL, right? The people who throw the Pinterest party and document every single moment of it to you, whether they invited you or not. Can you imagine thinking you are one of Taylor Swift’s friends and then opening your Instagram to this? I like a lot of things about the woman. Her cats,…

I took my brother to the airport, picked up a bunch of stuff I didn’t need from IKEA (which was on the way home from the airport) and cleaned my apartment while watching GoT commentary and drinking beer. Woo July 4th!

Agreed. Who rents a redcoat costume for your British friend if not for the photo-op? I mean, if I were invited to this party that would be great, but does she have ANY friends who are not famous people?

Mine does that too. He comes and lays down on the bathmat while I’m in the shower. Every once in a while I get that horrible thought, “What if this is a shape-shifting human who has infiltrated my home?!” And then I realize I really am a crazy cat lady and go about my day.

Cannot imagine how this guy ended up an ex!

Ian McKellan. Sassy Goats.

I was surprised to find that out as well. I knew he/she had been gone for a while, but I thought that was personal choice? Like LaComtesse mostly sticking to GT instead of Jezebel. (I seriously freak out happily when I see her pop up again.)

I would have always assumed the same about you AND about myself on this forum. People who give you shit about having a degree should STFU. You only mention it when it is relevent (I do the same thing when people talk about marketing/PR, so does that mean I’m bragging? Nope. Means I know what the fuck I’m talking…

I find it fascinating, too. Not only how we choose to use the language, but how from decade to decade, the perception of what is an acceptable age difference changes. I think of all those songs from the 1980s (Winger’s “Seventeen” at the top of the list), where grown men talk about lusting after girls in their late…

Thank you!

My mom still sings the Sesame Street song teaching numbers in Spanish (in her head, that is) when she needs to communicate numbers to a Spanish-only speaker. (Yes, my mom is adorable.)

Possibly. I’ve been reading Jezebel since 2008 or so and there’s been a huge turnover in commenters. They’ve either broken off into the subblogs (Groupthink, etc.), and for a while there a lot of regular commenters were banned from the site, and I haven’t seen any of them come back. I think the people who made it…

Haha. And Taylor Swift. She got a lot of shit on those boards too.