I read mostly for comfort this year, but the books I am talking up to anyone who will stand still are Dread Nation by Justina Ireland, Rescued by Her Rival by Amalie Berlin, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller, Evie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes, Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein, and The…

I heard an interview with Abbi Waxman and she is sharp and hilarious.

One of my faves this year was The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher, about a young woman trying to clean out her hoarder grandmother’s house when strange things start to happen, some of which involves a deer skull. I need to read The Need.

Yes, this. I didn’t see ROS til today, but the appearance of Rose in TLJ felt super awkward to me, and while I grew to like her over the course of the movie, her character definitely felt like a plot mechanism rather than an actual character.

You can find pretty much any kind of sex in romance books: Kraken

This was likely a mis- or non-communication with the publicist(s) with him on tour. If you have a client who is known to have anxiety issues, especially with specific circumstances that are common on press tours, you have to plan ahead and be prepared. Whoever Disney sent out was either an oblivious idiot or woefully…

Dairy farmers are subsidized to produce more milk than the market demands and that keeps the prices artificially low.

Which is amazingly fucked up because the Vanity Fair article the film is based on is mainly about the FBI’s botched investigation and secondarily about the media coverage.

My British lit teacher in high school had one in his classroom and we were forever stabbing ourselves on the branches.

I am leaning hard into the Hallmark movies this year and filling up my DVR as 2019 has been insanely stressful both personally and in the world. I prefer the older Hallmark oeuvre, before it became a Thing, because they tend to be a little goofier and less sparkly. One of my favorites is One Christmas Eve with Anne…

Well shit, this is going to be stuck in my head for days. Better go listen to the Baby Yoda song again...

While I’m thrilled that Funbag is now on Vice, I really miss the comments section.

Years ago when I was in New York in November on a biz trip, the pervasive scent of roasting chestnuts compelled me to buy a little bag and give them a try, and, well, they sure do smell good.

While I agree in principle, her voice was cringingly weak in this week’s show.

And not just any wild dandelions, Jackson Hole wild dandelions. Wealth-adjacent weeds are better.

Yes, they are all over my neighborhood in San Ramon and more noisy than threatening, though I had to help out an Amazon delivery driver the other day when they surrounded her van.

(Maybe the inside of his hat had very anti-Trump things and it was all a ploy.)

This is extremely upsetting because I had a crush on Zuke when he played for the A’s and did adorable ads for the local sports channel. This news comes on the heels of discovering my debit card and PIN were skimmed this weekend AND my paycheck will be late, making today a NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY.

Right? These are families who already have incredible connections and apparently these kids don’t even want to go to top-tier schools. From what I’ve heard, Aunt Becky’s husband freaked after being told by the high school counselor that his daughter’s best shot was Arizona State, which is the perfect place for someone…

So true. I write a ton of press releases and per AP style, job titles are supposed to be lowercase. This does NOT go down well with the boys who routinely react as if I had literally chopped off their dicks.