One time I went to the theater alone, to see the play The Shape of Things. The whole play is only 4 actors, and at the climactic scene 3 of them go and sit in the audience. They apparently left empty seats next to single ticket purchases, including next to me. So what I'm getting at is that Paul Rudd sat next to me…

Use twitter??!! Jesus, what's her next "tip"? Is she just going to list all the apps you could use on your phone to make yourself look busy and very important? Sorry, that is some lame-ass tip-providing.

I also thought it was ridiculous. Might get my vote for worst mad men episode ever. I mean, no Joan? Please. I think the show is best when it focuses on their work lives. I'm hoping that Bert's come to Jesus speech will not only snap Don back in to work mode, but the series as well.

I think it's a typo in the video translation, supposed to be astroplaning. Which means visiting the astral plane. Which I'm not sure that people who do that claim to be flying around with unicorns etc, but I think that's what the cartoon is purporting to illustrate.

Egads, the only thing worse than a bogus trend piece is a bogus trend piece based on a purported generational identity trait. I just can't anymore with this millenial business.

God, I said this the last time someone here quoted that — it's the best. The best. I love it so much. I will never not think it again in any Heide Klum-related situation.

Dodai, a few days ago a commenter on another post mentioned that you had told her about this site. I wrote it down, and then later that day I spent an hour window shopping there. I just want to press a button and import half the site into my closet. This might be the best Worth It ever.

Agreed, every word. I know people who use spreadsheets at work, and pretty soon they use them for everything — "I Excel my life, and therefore I excel at life." An awful lot of people who do online dating treat it like it's a big project to manage — each of the people a piece of the project to manage. You know, a…

Madeleine may have just inadvertently summed up the show's potential downfall when she said, "as a white, middle class, 25-year-old, New York transplant, I consider myself her target audience." See, as a white, middle class 25-year-old New York transplant, you're clearly her SUBJECT. But assuming the audience is…

I agree. I think for as much as people use phrases like "social upheaval" to talk about the end of the sixties, what it was probably like living through it at the time was pretty violent. Was it the first episode of this season where Roger said "when is everything going to go back to normal"? I think that's the…

Pete's defining feature as a character has always been that he's playing grown-up. And he's always been miserable doing it. And when he gets down in the dumps, his attempt to make himself happy is to go after some young girl to make himself feel like a big man. Remember the neighbor's au pair? And a freaking high…

Brick City. It's a Sundance Channel documentary series about him running Newark, and it's amazing. This guy is the real deal. He's the future.

I second that recommendation. That book is amazing — it has sections about all the different ways our brains interact with and are affected by music. I read it years ago and I've been kind of constantly referring to it in conversations ever since. There are some fascinating stories of individual people and music. …

That article was the most important thing I've ever read about long-term weight loss. As someone who lost over 100 pounds a few years ago through very healthy methods (a lot of exercise and eating more plants, less everything else but nothing excluded entirely) and has gained back too much of it, I found it pretty…

My mom was in the hospital for a week a few months ago. She received excellent care; our family was pleased and impressed with the nursing staff across the board. And you know what? Based on my personal expert eyeball test, not one of the dozen or so nurses who cared for her so well would be allowed to work at this…

God, I wish I had something clever to add to that, but I don't. Just wanted to let you know you just made me actually guffaw.

I'll never not think of that again. Whatever my go-to definition of Heidi Klum was before, it is now instantly and permanently cast aside.

I was just coming to mention that same book. My aunt was a girl who went away in about 1960, and nobody except her parents and eventual husband knew about it until about 10 years ago. So when that book came out my whole family read it, and my aunt said some of the stories could have been her and the girls she was at…

Can't get passed the shock of seeing Zou Bisou Bisou written out. I guess my 4 years of high school french should have clued me into the fact that it probably wasn't Zooby Zooby Zoo, but until I saw this I embarassingly would have guessed something closer to the neighborhood of Zooby. I did love hearing The Roots…

Ugh, for all the depressing aspects of this story, it's the "Too much, too soon?" caption in that screen shot that is getting me. Because yes, we've decided as a society that hating yourself because of your weight and making yourself miserable to lose weight is in fact the proper course for adult women, but just not…