I’m in Jersey City, and it is worrying.

the area between Fairfax and LaBrea, south of Melrose is LA’s Williamsburg.

I lived in a Hasidic area of Los Angeles, and with only one exception - my favorite neighbor ever, turns out - the men were just awful.

my little Jennifer Garner story: years ago, she was on the cover of a magazine, and I was a plus-one at the dinner celebrating the issue’s launch. there were maybe 30 of us in attendance. Jennifer got up from her meal and slowly made her way around the table, introducing herself to each and every one of us, asking us…

anyone who donates to this instead of to, say, Charity Water or Unicef or Doctors Without Borders or their coworker’s sick kid’s GoFundMe page needs to hand in their Good Christian card immediately.

I think most of us believe that winning a silver medal in the Olympics is pretty damn amazing. I’m sorry your cousin sees it as a grand defeat. the non-sporting world simply can’t get our heads around that.

agreed. it was a successful 7-year relationship.

Sharon Horgan is one of the creatives. Catastrophe is just so damn good I had to give Divorce a try. it doesn’t measure up, but then few things do.

a single bathroom without a toilet, no less.

he once bought a new car and gave his old one to a P.A. on his show. that’s solid.

my friend’s toddler loves to grab my cheeks and plant a long Valentino-worthy kiss smack on my lips. it’s.....cute? I think? as long as he’s not still doing it at like twelve...

do you take lysene? it really helps cut down the frequency/intensity of outbreaks.

my niece - adopted as a toddler from overseas - regularly gets giant angry cold sores on her mouth. they last forever, and it hurts just to look at them. poor kid.

agreed. give me interestingly-pretty over pretty-pretty any day. plus, she’s got her dad’s musical talent. ARJ doesn’t have to worry about comparisons to her kid sister. she’s got her own goods.

“Generally, once molested, the victims grow up to be the molesters of the next generation”

my adoration of Gilbert as a speaker (her TED talk is wonderful) is at constant battle with my loathing of Eat, Pray, Love. but it’s pretty easy to avoid the latter while seeking out the former.

at age fifty, I find myself in love for the first time in over a decade. it is because of sheer luck, nothing else. I am no more evolved or introspective or self-actualized than the next person. in fact, I’m kind of a mess. and so is he. and it works for us.

in his later years my dad would go to the supermarket in baggy sweatpants and fill them with anything he could get his hands on.

when I lived in Hong Kong, a lot of my fellow expats sent their kids to the local public schools. they came out bilingual and kicking ass in math and science.

Lauer, like Charlie Rose before him, is so valuable to his network, I cannot imagine them letting him go on just an allegation alone.