I used Pond’s cold cream every night and have for my entire life. I am OLD. As in well over 55 and I have great skin. The rest of me is falling to pieces. I do get facials, however, and that’s when they tell me I have good skin. So I’m team Pond’s (and team Warren for that matter). 

I just keep thinking of Vincent “the Chin” Gigante, and how he pretended to be crazy to avoid prosecution. Didn’t work. Hopefully this won’t work either. 

Sad but true. Mr Machine loves Bernie, and constantly tells me that Warren’s voice is ‘grating.’ I also worry that the press/the pollsters have anointed Biden as the one who can beat Trump, so people are just falling into place with that thinking. Warren still has my primary vote. If we can pay for another endless war…

And who administered those drugs? Magda. I know this isn’t to the point of the original story, but that family horrifies me to this day. 

Late to this but one thing no one (that I can see) has mentioned: you are coming from L.A. where your car is your catch-all storage unit. In NYC your “car” is your stylish big, but not too big, handbag. Those gloves you might need because it’s going from 45 during the day to 30 at night? Handbag. Umbrella for when it…

Just doesn’t shock me. She’s from that part of New York State that had Lock Her Up signs in front yards. I grew up nearby, and the racism and xenophobia and second amendment claptrap that comes out of the mouths of people I am somewhat related to has made me leave the room and never speak to them again. She is from…

I was thinking the same thing. The school could suspend the kids, but I don’t think they can kick them out legally. They must do something. And while blackface kid will likely never ‘get’ what he did, people can change...maybe. And if the training makes one kid look at the world differently, or think about their…

Now that she’s 18, the doctor can’t tell him anything without written consent from said daughter. Maybe he pressured her into doing that. Ugh. This is so gross. I can’t even think of it. 

Just wait till you get to parallel time. I adored this show as a pre-teen! The bad production values didn’t bother anyone as we got sucked into time travel, vampires, werewolves, and ghosts. I’m convinced that many of the romance readers (of a, ahem, certain age) who love paranormal romance cut their teeth on Dark…

The cutting off of people who “wrong” you is part of narcissistic personality disorder. So is having wildly strong favorites who you might later discard. Diana did that constantly to everyone but her children (who I do believe she adored). She was besties with the Duchess of York, then cut her right out of her life. Wh…

It’s over 30 years old. That can make it ‘classic’ in terms of age.  In 1986 your classic movies would be from 1956 and it can all work backwards from there. If that makes any sense at all. And you can still get plenty of Roy Rogers and Ginger Rogers, etc., on TCM.

The Bellamys! I loved UD as well, though I thought it did a bit of a better job at showing how much drudgery went into being a servant. One of the maids got pregnant by the son of upstairs and was tossed into the streets, the scullery maid always looked like she was about to fall over, and Rose, the head parlormaid,…

I always admired her. She fought cancer for quite a while, this is truly a loss. And (trivia!) her mother was Lindy Boggs, a member of the US House of Representatives from Louisiana. She took over from her late husband and then got re-elected seven times.

Debbie never danced before she did Singin’ in the Rain! Gene Kelly drove her to tears, and Fred Astaire found her under a prop piano weeping...so he gave her a pep talk and on she went into cinema history. That said: Lara is an idiot and I hope Prince George dances on!

Did anyone really think Big Tobacco was going to go down without a fight? Remember, they used to have doctors do cigarette ads! Because I watched my dad smother and choke to death from lung cancer, I won’t go near anything that has so little long-term research behind it. Plus, despite what I read that smoking rates…

The royals have always been dreadful and only got respectable because of Victoria and Albert. A son of George III, the Duke of Cumberland, was rumored to have raped his own sister and gotten her pregnant and that’s just one story from the ages. There’s been scandal, buried and not so buried. I’m sure Randy Andy knows…

Team Amy all the way! I loved this piece. All Amy wanted was a few nice dresses, some pickled limes, and a different nose than the one she was born with. I have such a soft spot for Little Women, but the older I get the more I get annoyed with Alcott’s dismissal of Amy. Amy had a talent for friendship, something Jo…