I too chose not to make one last trip to see a beloved family member before she passed, though I had the opportunity. Well, I say I chose, but she really did it for me. She was still compos mentis, though jaundiced from her liver cancer, and she was calling us all to her, one by one, or by couples. My ex and I…

I was back in Westville in October, and saw Delaney's (which will forever be the Cape Codder in my mind) and I started weeping. When I was a kid, a trip to the Cape Codder was always something special, even if the food was middling. My dad is beside himself, because it was the only place in Westville (barring a…

Alas, I am now in LA, though I am originally from Westville. And the best bar ever is now no more — RIP Anchor. The saddest news in a line of sad news of the defunct spaces of my childhood and young adulthood: the Doodle, Educated Burgher, Clark's Dairy, Rhymes Records, goddamn CUTLER'S, the original Willoughby's on…

As both a townie and a Yalie, I can attest this is 100% true.

I am 4'11" and I own every goddamn inch of that. It never occurs to me that I'm short until I have to get something off a shelf and frankly, that's what minions are for. I play up the cute shit when it suits me but I am not a sweet little sparklefairy. Best advice: love the body you have. It's yours, and that's what…

Erectile dysfunction even affects robots. :(

It is well known that all New Haveners are terrorists.

Hello, fellow Modern lover! I just sang the praises of the clams casino in my own riposte. And yes, a sausage and pepper pizza from there is the shit.

As a native of New Haven, I don't even know where to begin. First, Pinkham, thank you for acknowledging our pizza is the best, as if that were even debatable. BUT if you are going to state that our pies are traditionally not made with red sauce (which is only partly true, more on that infra), you cannot omit clam as a…

Another yes on the Norwegian Formula. My Heavenly Sainted Dermatologist recommended it to me and lo and behold, lovely healing hands.

WORD.

Wat wat, here's my butt.

I'd hit that. Especially if he whispered sweet nothings in his real accent.

Do not be blinded by Cillian Murphy's hotness (which is undeniable)! My friends and I used to have discussions where we'd try to imagine having sex with men with different regional accents. Brum was always the one where we would start cracking up just thinking about a guy whispering sweet nothings. My apologies to my…

No. Not sexy.

If anyone wants to prove to me that a Brum accent is sexy, go for it.

Bryn and I were correspondents for a while, and I once went to meet him on set. (Hi Bryn!) If anyone can do this justice with quite a bit more than a fair degree of intelligence, it's him. I'll be watching.

No kidding. I broke my morning routine (Neutrogena Pink Grapefruit Wash, Basedcu SPF 15 moisturizer, Smashbox light primer) for one week because I was out of the Neutrogena and too lazy to go to CVS, and I picked up a bottle of the Alba pineapple enzyme wash at Whole Foods because... I don't even know why. Boom,…

Movies my parents took me to that seem somewhat questionable choices in retrospect:

My stomach just heaved in sympathy. :'-(