My not so little guy had to stay in the nursery for the first 12 hours because I was in bad shape. My husband was back and forth between us. He saw a nurse bringing in another baby and remarked how small it was. The nurse patted his arm and told him “No, dear, this is a newborn. You had a 3 month old.”

In a world where that’s all it takes for a sequel, it’s not a spectacular flop either. The world wide grosses matter. I’m not defending that shit pile of a movie, just saying the U.S. ticket sales are almost meaningless in the grand scheme.

My oldest was 10lbs even and 22.5" long. (My smallest was 9.4oz and 21.5" long. The third was in between). Trying to give birth to him was hell. About 55 hours of hell, actually, resulting in a c-section. I CANNOT EVEN IMAGINE 4 MORE POUNDS. Omg. I...just...no.

It made more than $142 million dollars. When it comes to action movies, it doesn’t matter how the movie does in the U.S. anymore. It matters how it does in China.

Yeah I have a couple friends of Afghan descent, one of which still visits her grandparents there every year and her kids have traditional clothes and everything. They would be very taken aback to find out they aren’t white. They are Afghani-Americans, and they are white. IDK about Rumi and I doubt he was blue-eyed or…

Total Eclipse is so fucking good. DiCaprio is a fantastic actor that spent about 10 years being typecast as Jack. I’m glad he found his way back to interesting roles.

I’m going to hope against hope that by “level of casting” they mean “level of fame” and not “these particular white actors”. I would find it extremely hard to believe that either of those actors that would take a role that portrays someone so racially different than themselves.

Really? Because I never, ever hear anything by her on the radio unless it’s from her first two albums. I know her Christmas album did well, but I don’t really count that. Stronger was played a lot when it came out, but I don’t remember the last time I heard it.

They do, but the amount they pay for it has been vastly reduced, and the amount the artist makes is even less than that. http://blog.thecurrent.org/2014/02/40-yea…

Because in the age when no one wants to buy music, the concerts are where the money is. And yes, pop has always had a manufactured element. That’s what makes it pop music. But the record industry has changed, radically, since the advent of digital music.

Oh sure, you can find all kinds of music, which is why I don’t complain about the radio. Most interesting music isn’t ON the radio. Being able to put out an album on iTunes for $10 is great, but it’s still not the same as selling out huge concerts and getting a lot of airplay. Those things DO still matter.

Even Whitney Houston if you want to include fluff :)

I don’t care what people listen to, but on one level it does matter that it doesn’t really matter how well people sing anymore. All that matters is how they look, a la Britney and Katy and the like. This leaves out some really talented people who might have less sex appeal. Look at Kelly Clarkson’s career. That woman…

I agree that pop is far too manufactured. It amazes me how shocked people are when they hear people sing live and it doesn’t sound like the radio. That used to not be *quite* so shocking. In fact, I was more shocked when it did sound like the radio. I gushed about seeing Tom Petty live for weeks because it sounded so…

I’m going with the overdone heavy brow. It’s a tough call, but the heavy ones are more frightening.

For whatever reason it won’t let me reply to Sodburger, but omg that Buzzfeed link is hilarious. While I love the speech Beyonce made about her mom and grandma and I admire the love and effort that went into it, the Destiny’s Child look was so ridiculous. I thought so then and I still think so, but it IS fun to look…

That’s a rather unflattering picture of Beyonce, but it’s a REALLY ugly hat. Yikes.

That is always what I think too. I can’t keep up with the hip lingo, heh.

No she’s probably three to three and a half. She is in a pull-up, not a regular diaper, and most 1 year olds can barely walk. No child that young has the coordination to do that.

If the answer to ending sexual assaults and improving the communication around consensual sex is to teach men/boys not to rape, well then duh, the articles concerning such things will be addressed to men. That is sort of the point, is it not?