Step 1: do whatever you want. Step 2: repeat every goddamn day.

Didion v. Salinger: the landmark case re: slapfights.

I'm recently divorced and living alone for the first time ever. It's AMAZING. My ex husband was super critical and I am experiencing freedom like I've never known.

I call them greys. This post makes me feel better about finding this book unreadable. And I tried multiple times, as a person who has made a semi-serious effort to be literary in the most cliche senses of the word.

Replying to get you out of the grays. Joan Didion is way out of my league too. Yes! I want to see this adjudicated in shade court. Didion v. Salinger.

I can't stand Joan Didion and I love Franny and Zooey, but this is a great burn! And she's not wrong.

I love Joan Didion, and yet I always get the feeling, to this day...she's def the kind of WASPy girl who would not fuck with me. Like a mean girl in the classiest, to-the-manor-born way.

Considering how few people, men, especially, understand female anatomy and how it works, I think it might need to be even more obvious.

For me, the tankini solves the wrong problem. I don't care if my belly is flabby; I want full coverage of my crotchal region so I don't have to spend half a day shaving that area. My hair is thick, dark, and copious and my skin is bone china. I want more board short options.

For swimwear, I recommend J.Crew (expensive, but I've had 1 suit for 9 years and another for 5), Lands End , and Garnet Hill; they all sell a great assortment of bikinis, one pieces, and tankinis. Also, if you find a top you love from one site, don't box yourself in to buying the matching bottom if you don't love it.…

I mean, WHY are they called Samoas? It's like naming a cookie "Indonesias" or "Palaus." Is it supposed to be a pun, like "I want samoa [some more]"?

Actually, learning how to better communicate the risk-benefit thing is a major area of research precisely because of what you described. If we make it too confusing people are just like "well fuck this then" and don't bother.

I heard if a woman has had three children, and you put your ear to her vagina, you can hear the ocean.

I don't know who's the bigger dick, him or... His dick.

Campaign for GinAndTonic to be Ungreyed

Does anyone have a recommendation for exfoliants that don't use nut shells or fruit? I have mild allergies to both nuts and raw fruits, so I've tried St. Ives exfoliants that use either nut shells or apricot pits, and both make my face practically scaly in what I assume is an allergic reaction. I really don't want…

I get irrationally excited when Sephora has fancy mascara samples in the VIB Rewards. It sucks pulling the trigger on a high-rated and expensive full-size only to have it be a disappointment (looking at you, Armani Eyes to Kill Stretch Lengthening Macara).

It's SUPER hard to find good exfoliants that DON'T have microbeads! As someone who needs to scrub my face off on the regular, I appreciate a good grit. So far the only product I've found that meets this criteria, and is, you know, cheap, is St. Ives green tea scrub. It's got a perfect texture, and no freaking beads!