YES YES YES DOLL WEEK

I had a food truck at my wedding. In part because I was having a very cheap wedding in a venue that wasn’t really suited to full-on catering, and because Offbeat Bride had an article on them that addressed a lot of my specific worries about getting it catered. At this point a lot of food trucks have experience with…

It’s official now: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/fl-ne-florida-hurricane-planning-20190828-4jdrmfelnjfvndrd3xsx3gtedm-story.html

Thanks for this write-up! I saw it over the weekend and then got my first of these scam event notifications on Monday. Was nice to know I had a reliable source to go to for info on getting my settings fixed.

I’ve done that double feature. Most fun I’ve ever had with a chest infection.

Diana Wynne Jones is a must-paperback experience for me; in fact, I have a rule that I can only acquire new DWJ books if I come across them in a bookstore (based on the thesis that if I don’t restrict myself, I will buy 15 at a time and then they will get lost and I’ll forget I have them because internet and life and…

Priuses also do this. It’s not that hard to not kill Anton Yelchin (and yet).

My twin sister and I were conceived via the “mixing sperm” method mentioned later in the article and I’m actually facing this exact possibility. My sister’s taken the Ancestry and 23andMe tests and had it confirmed that she’s the donor’s kid. I am absolutely terrified of finding out about my own genes, now. I feel…

I was an actual toddler when this came out, but I read Judd Winick’s Pedro and Me in middle school. It was an incredible and crucial reading experience at the time; in a way, Pedro in the comic had the same impact on me that he did on viewers of the show. He was the first gay person I’d ever encounter in media who was…

The Planet Hollywood down in Orlando was semi-recently bought by Guy Fieri and relaunched as the Planet Hollywood Observatory. The decor is much better, the food is...negotiable. They’ve turned the dome side of the restaurant into a massive screen where they play games, movie clips, and occasionally encourage a…

They couldn’t resist adding a sticker portraying their favorite dog breed--I declare this a real human’s truck.

I wish it was more of a done thing these days to change up your last name. Both my maiden name and my married name are nigh-impossible for Americans to pronounce. (An ancestor of mine managed to cross into England as a baby and into Missouri as a young man with his last name intact, which is impressive, considering…

I have perfected pining over Fluevog shoes. Also, because I am a huge nerd, over the smartwatch that’s a replica of the countdown watch Kurt Russell wears in Escape From New York: lifeclockone.com Look, I could give less of a shit that it’s massive, and that it will look stupid and I’ll hardly ever wear it. The only…

I saw a piece of art in the Philadelphia Museum of Art a few months ago that was some lettuce wedged between two rocks. I thought it was some well-made fake lettuce until the plaque informed me that the art in question is often unavailable, due to the need to replace the lettuce.

Thisthisthisthisthis. I don’t think we can underestimate how much ads help define “normal” for the viewer.

I didn’t work in that area, but I did grow up there and now I realize why we had lunch at 3 PM so often.

Does it count if I betrayed a friend by being petty to their mom?

Your petty move was the right thing to do!!! Her poor GF didn’t deserve to risk her career over someone who was using her.

If you’re referring to who I think you’re referring to, it’s “Jem,” not “Gem.”

My personal coming of age stories that mattered in my coming-of-age: Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, Bloomability by Sharon Creech, and, most of all: Juno. There’s not enough coming of age stories about the weird kids who have to deal with their weird shit and growing up.