“cheerful bitchiness”...that is something I aspire to in life.

I really, truly believe, in my heart of hearts, that SJP is capable of doing more than one character-type. Why does she only ever play Carrie?

Not to be a nitpicker, but that is the definition of “indirectly responsible.”

This has to be somebody’s spirit animal...suggestions on whom that somebody might be?

Okay, now I get how all the Lady Ghostbusters Haters feel. THIS MOVIE WILL RUIN EVERYTHING THAT IS GOOD IN THE WORLD! Please be a joke, please be a joke...

Two years ago, my BFF and I went on a five-day trek across PEI, geeking out over Anne of Green Gables sites, seeing the Wailin’ Jennys in concert, and driving through beautiful countryside. Other than that, nearly all of my travel in my adult life has been to attend conferences, family gatherings, or other people’s…

I’m super impressed with you for actually changing hearts and minds (both of you) instead of yelling at each other!

I just started UnReal, which is fulfilling my trashy hour-long drama quota for the week. Women’s Studies major ends up as a producer on a dating show, which sounds like a comedy, until she has a mental breakdown and her bosses blackmail her to keep her on their team.

I recently saw a workshop of a Loving musical that was also highly romanticized, and then heard the same story. Looked it up and she was eighteen when she got pregnant, but very likely was intimate with him in her earlier teens. She did seem to consider it a love situation though, at least in retrospect: http://usatoda…

I missed the part where they made choices that made this wedding uniquely feminist and how they (as they said) “moved away from the wedding industrial complex.” As far as I can see, she wore a white dress, received a diamond ring (even if she technically mulled over it), and hosted a sit-down dinner for 150 people.…

Movie star by Lizzie Pepper (by Hillary Liftin) is also a mock-TC/KH tell-all. Thanks for they Amy Sohn rec!

Currently rocking this little number in purple because IDGAF: http://shop.civilrightsmuseum.org/well-behaved-w…

Possibly the only real example of “playing the woman card” to one’s advantage. I’m enchanted by the idea of a cute little dirty old man writing women’s romance novels in secret, though.

A good photographer can make anyone look at least okay for a book jacket.

The Nest was amazing. I didn’t have the luxury of devouring it all in one sitting, but I absolutely had the feeling of “I do not want to eat, sleep, or go to work. I only want to read this book, and I will be profoundly sad when it is over.”

This makes me long for my childhood when all books were about imaginative young women who felt like outcasts. If you have to be beautiful and charming off the page to get a book deal, we aren’t going to have books like that anymore. This must be where the genre of “clique novels” came from: it suddenly became cool to…

Camp Nowhere was an amazing movie. I’m pretty sure Accepted (where Justin Long creates a fake college) functions as its sequel, though.

I think he means “liberal, elite values,” but there’s a lot of overlap.

He spoke at my middle school when I was young and, also wanting to write, I was inspired by his origin story. The only book I read of his was “I Want to Go Home,” about a kid trying to escape from summer camp. Highly recommend it, though I had forgotten about it until just now...thanks for reminding me of a delightful…

If I didn’t have so much stuff, and/or didn’t expect a place like this to be filled with bright-eyed millenials (I’m on the end cusp of Gen Y), I’d totally do this. I’ve lived on my own for eight years now in places with varying social components, and I’d love to have the option of socializing in a common area, as…