While I hate to get in the way of a good American Vogue hate-on, Hamish Bowles is a delight. I mean obviously he’s a fop and a toff, but he’s both in on the joke and has the academic fashion and interior design history chops that make him a legit expert in his field. To me he gets grandfathered into that category of…

Ultra late to the game, but I think in healthy relationships “letting” is shorthand for recognizing someone has made a sacrifice to the relationship.

I don’t feel optimistic about this? Like, Superstar Diva with Iffy Acting Chops and Good-Not-Extraordinary Voice Taking On Iconic Judy Garland Role maybe has not worked out so favorably in the past?

appropriate response is appropriate

I have a lot of family members who dislike me, so I could see having some sort of silent charity auction to bid on having the chance to press the burn button. So my favorite animal rescue gets some cash and my grandmother —who will outlast everyone on the planet because evil never truly dies— will get to realize her…

Preach. My man works overnight two nights a week, and although I’m always like “byeee baby I’ll miss yooooou” the second he leaves I place myself in the geographic center of our king, arrange ALL the pillows and ALL the blankets the way I see fit then stretch out like a motherfucking starfish. It’s the best part of my…

We would have also accepted “Catholicism.”

#teamhookworms

I’ve heard that too, which is cool. A lot of geranium notes are created/enhanced by foralozone/ozone propanol, so I wonder if the connection comes from that.

I’m a sucker for their incense collection. Like I said, metallics/ozones aren’t my cup of tea, but I am here all day erry day for their incenses, particularly Zagorsk.

Ozone smells slightly metallic, slightly watery and a bit like a thunderstorm, depending on how it’s used and the exact molecule(s). You get a lot of ozone notes in scents with the word “fresh” or “blue” or “sport” in them. As a whole you don’t find a lot of really high quality fragrances with a ton of ozone in them,…

One of the ancillary benefits of having extracated myself from a 20 year bestfrenemy situation is my future wedding planning just became exponentially less stressful because I no longer have to worry about how to cater to someone who has gone absolutely insane during every wedding she’s ever been in. It honestly was…

The only thing that surprises me about this is that movies in the US cost ten dollars.

No, I don’t live in the states so I’m not even sure it’s on where we live. We don’t have television and my internet connection is basically a pelican holding a tin can on our roof, so I’m completely lost when it comes to most modern TV. I saw an episode of Mad Men for the first time in like 2013 on a transatlantic…

I have never heard of this man but he looks like my BF so I’m signing on.

^ the only appropriate response re: homemade baklava

And “I’ve tried to date women my age but they are just so BITTER and have so much BAGGAGE.”

If he’s just happening to be dating a woman 10+ years his junior then hey that’s cool. It happens sometimes. If he ONLY dates women 10+ years his junior then you might want to think about what that means.

Not far from where I live is a lagoon where gray whales come to calve. For some unknown reason, the mothers like to push their calves up to the boats and you can pet them. Anyway, the fella and I were talking on the phone about this year’s upcoming trip and I just started to get SO emotional because I just love them…

When I saw Leonard Cohen for the first time —it was the first show of his first tour in the US in 16 years— I started sobbing the minute the house lights went down. I felt very weird and emotional until I looked around and probably 75% of the audience was too, and this was before he even took the stage. It was one of…