Exactly how I feel. She is a treasure and a Pawnee Goddess. Her book has its moments. I pre-ordered it and spent the whole day reading it on the day it came out. Then a few days ago I realized I hadn't finished it and just hadn't bothered to go back to it since that first day. But. The time travel chapter is lovely…

Emily Nussbaum is the best.

Ha, babynamewizard basically shut down all productivity for a week at my work about a decade ago when an expecting father introduced it to us. All we did all day was send emails to the whole group that were just a name that we'd found with a funny graph.

This movie is one of my favorites (Moonstruck, Tootsie, Working Girl — obviously New York in the 1980s speaks to me). For decades now, I've never heard, spoke, or thought of the number 6000 without finishing it with "it's not even leathuh." More importantly, this film was a major touchstone for me when I started my…

haha, I just googled and discovered that Katherine Heigl was originally cast, and Blake Lively is replacing her. And also discovered that I'm not exactly the only person who's noticed the resemblance between K Heig and E Bur. Still a missed opportunity!!

This is a missed opportunity. I've been wondering for years why someone hasn't cast Ellen Burstyn and Katherine Heigl as mother/daughter, because they are twinsies (like, Brody and Brody's baby level lookalikes, or Cece and teenage Cece level lookalikes — both of which came on tv in the same week and blew my mind).…

Where's that Chris Pratt gif of shrugging it off after he pitched a bad first pitch at a cubs game? That's my response.

Pardon me for looking on the dark side, but isn't one way to read this study that mothers have to outperform everybody else to keep their high status job? That the negative reaction they get for underperforming for a few years requires them to overperform the entire rest of their career to get back to even in terms of…

This is such an accurate description.

youtube! thanks!

You guys, you've got to watch the documentary series Signe Chanel. It's 5 or 6 half-hour episodes showing all the steps in making the Chanel collection for one show. It focuses a lot on the ladies in the attic of the Chanel atelier who actually sew the clothes. Lagerfeld is downstairs in his studio sketching and…

Whenever I'm anywhere and someone making a speech or any kind of public statement just kind of trails off at the end, my mind goes SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES.

but her party clothes are so binding!

I admit it, I was scanning this list for factory guy. When I watch golf with my dad, we always wait for factory guy.

This explanation pretty much sums up what my cousin, a male OB/GYN, has told me. He really likes doing surgical procedures, but he loves talking to his patients. Also, his wife was pregnant with their first child right when he was picking a specialty. So I mean, come on, how could he not.

I buy music — never pirated anything. I probably spend around $30-$40/year on iTunes, and that's the whole universe of my music buying. I'm 41, and I got my first cd (Phantom of the Opera! thanks mom) along with the cd player boom box I got as my 1990 high school graduation present from my parents. After a lifetime of…

I've never set foot in either Red Lobster or Olive Garden. Am I even an American?

This is an excellent point. People just don't know what to read. I'll go one step further than you, though — I think this same phenomenon is the reason lots of people just don't read at all. They'll read a book if someone will tell them what to read. See, e.g., Oprah's bookclub.

Everwood was an important turning point in my psychosexual development, as it was the first piece of pop culture I ever encountered where I found the dad sexier than the teenager the show positioned as the crush object. But then over time Brighton Abbott became the best thing going. Some people just have it.

Watching American Ninja Warrior the last few years is where I learned the concept of strength-to-weight ratio. Big muscular dudes have no chance in this competition. I read somewhere the executive producer of the tv show said the ideal size is 5'6", 145 pounds. It's the next stage, I think, in which it becomes all…