As soon as i read that my thought was "That horse is out of the barn, my dear."

I've only read the first one, but for that one at least there are a lot of flashbacks and then abruptly going back to the present, sort of in the vein of Alias Grace, but not a lot of shifts between narrators.

I think it's one of those things where if would be fun for you and your dad, do it, if it's going to cause any kind of agita, don't. My dad is a great dancer, and he's the one who taught me how to dance. We dance together at any social event we go to with traditional "dancing" (Like, I'm not going to take my dad to da…

Oh man, anytime someone uses "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" in this context it squicks me out. She's singing about her SUGAR DADDY not her father, and if you actually listen it's pretty blatant about it. Ew.

That's a tricky one. You'd need to be able to prove the frat knew what he was doing and that they condoned and/or aided him in it. You basically need to be able to prove they didn't just happen to pick a weirdo to join their frat and then had they known what he was doing they wouldn't have told him to knock it off or…

lol, so you keep forgetting you like a movie about a girl who keeps forgetting the guy she likes?! LOL, sorry, that tickles me no end.

"the overall look did nothing to hide the singer's feminine physique" is 11 words. I'm just saying that you can say the look didn't work by blaming the look, not the body of the singer. As you said, as a critic it isn't your place to try to blame on anyone specific (though most critics don't bother with that theory in…

I think it also gets dicey for people who live together, have been together for way too long for "boyfriend" or "girlfriend" to be appropriate but at the same time have chosen not to get married for whatever reason and therefore don't want to default to "husband" or "wife" since that isn't the reality. I've had a few…

Yeah, I think it's always been true that you should actually enjoy the company of your spouse the same way you do a friend, but with the sex and major commitment parts thrown it too. I mean, hey, people can say what they want, I don't judge, but that has always confused me a bit.

Yeah, not always true, but a good indicator. I live by it. Also, if the model has her arm completely covering the waistline and that is the ONLY view it is quite possibly because the waist sits weird and strains or bunches. Or if a blouse is only shown with the model wearing a sweater? Probably bad in the shoulders.

I agree you can't get technical, but there is a difference between saying "she's too fat for the role" and "the overall look did nothing to hide the singer's womanly physique." or something along those lines. I've been making costumes for 20 years. If a costume is "perfectly designed" it will do what is needed, which…

You are right, looking the part is important, but especially based on the photos below, and even your own comments here, the critics should have been taking the costume and makeup designers to task for failing to give her a look that supported the character and helped her look more boyish as opposed to bashing her…

I have work jeans and "off hours" jeans. The work jeans get washed more often because they get full of dirt and grime and sweat and crap, plus I'm not nearly as worried about them looking cute because that is not their purpose. I wash those every other week or so. The "off hours" jeans get washed when they walk…

Joe Millionare has my single favorite reality show line EVER:

I was coming here to ask about that. It really seems like pretty clear cut negligence to not run what sounds like a basic test and treatment based on an assumption about drug use, especially if a drug test wasn't given to prove that assumption was correct.

Oh man, that sucks and I've been there. I had a manager who didn't like me because I would actually *gasp* say something when a process or system was broken instead of just keeping quiet and figuring out a super PIA workaround. After she found a loophole to fire me I got calls from my former coworkers asking how I was…

Where do you work? Are they hiring?? ;)

I think this is the message. A lot of managers need to learn to pick the battles, like for real, if no one sees someone's pants it really isn't worth worrying about. If it is a person who spends time on the floor, yeah, you need non-bleached pants so then it is relevant but then, maybe speed isn't quite as important…

I think it's a given that if your job is actually shift work dealing with customers start/stop is more important. Just like if your job requires dealing with actual real-world items at the office, you might be able to have a more flexible schedule, but telecommuting is probably not possible. Though in all the service…

Yuuup. I like scrunchies for sleeping in (I still have a few left over from the 90s just for this purpose) because they don't get as ratted up in my hair. Anything more strenuous than sleeping? No way no how.