Eh, I think it depends on the celebrity. "You look like Kathy Bates" wouldn't necessarily be a compliment, but if you tell someone they look like a famous person who is essentially famous for being attractive, it definitely seems like a compliment to me. Plus tone and body language all ready into it. I would never…

Uh, Loras is pretty awesome. During our first introduction to him, he unseats the Mountain during a joust. Sansa swoons over him, he's considered one of the most badass and handsome knights in Westeros, he fights in the Battle of Blackwater and joins the Kingsguard to deal with his grief after Renly's death (which…

Counterpoint: if a man says something like that to me, and it's in a respectful tone without leering and there's no weird hovering around after the fact, I don't mind at all. I have a hard time accepting compliments, but when it genuinely seems to be in good faith, I'll take it, put it in my back pocket, and move on…

There's actually a method to the way GRRM chooses his POV characters - we never get a POV scene from someone on the throne or with ruling power (so no Robert, Joffrey, Tommen, etc.) or from someone who is more of a plotter/schemer than a pawn (hence why we don't see chapters from Littlefinger , Varys, or Tywin, among…

Honestly, I don't really care that much about Audrey Hepburn's granddaughter. As someone who works in media and doesn't have family connections to fall back on, I've learned that being somebody's niece or nephew will get those kids in the door, but if they don't consistently do good work, they won't keep getting…

Anderson Cooper, Daniel Day-Lewis, Nick Kroll, BJ Novak, Ronan Farrow, Josh Brolin, Nicolas Cage, Jason Schwartzman, Nick Cassavetes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Hanks, Ansel Elgort, Michael Douglas, Jeff Bridges, the list goes on and on... all of them have influential media parents, none of them get half the flack…

It's funny how when a woman benefits from her family connections, it's nepotism, but when a man does, he's "pedigreed."

On a completely unrelated note, I can't stop singing your screen name to the tune of the first line of "Diane Young" by Vampire Weekend.

Yup. You can't really go wrong with black or super dark-wash jeans and a light chambray on top. I also have a bleached Calvin Klein denim jacket circa the early '90s that I'll wear with dark jeans on occasion (but more often over a floral dress, because nothing makes me feel cuter than finally achieving my third-grade…

I can't figure out why people continue to hate on Taylor Swift in this day and age.

Co-signed, all of this. It's like when Sam Claflin was announced as Finnick Odair, and the entire internet promptly lost its shit over how he wasn't pretty enough to play a character described as the most attractive man in Panem. Calm down and let the man act, motherfuckers. (I also couldn't take anyone seriously who…

It must be a slow news month or something, because Jesus Christ, the blogs are riding this non-story (woman has ass, details at 11) until the wheels fall off.

I mean, other than the specific phrasing - because referring to a girl's virginity as "everything she had" is, if not slut-shamey, at least pretty tied up in patriarchal notions of purity/chastity designating a woman's worth - I always thought it was a pretty decent message. The overall idea isn't so much "Abigail was…

Kit Harington is like a less-endearing male KStew, though. Not even in my GOT top 5!

Her BUSINESS MANAGERS have good business acumen. Kim Kardashian is pulling as many of the strings behind the Kardashian brand as Mickey Mouse is at Disney. She's a mascot, not a businesswoman. For fuck's sake.

My favorite part is when the announcers have to read those personality questionnaires with answers like "Starleigh's ambition is to RULE THE WORLD!" While onstage, this newborn is just drooling slightly and bonking their fists together.

"Oh, you wanna take a selfie? I call that an 'usie.'"

The weird thing is that she would have actually made a lovely (and age-appropriate) Maria in The Sound of Music. I can't see her in this role at all, though.

Armenia is located in the Caucasus. Its people are literally Caucasian. I'm Russian and Tatar - so also Caucasian - and grew up basically immersed in Armenian culture, since it was the dominant culture in my neighborhood (I'm from Glendale). Not once have I ever heard an Armenian person identify as Middle Eastern or…

Um, I grew up in an area with a heavy Armenian population and I don't think I ever heard Armenia referred to as "Middle Eastern." It's part of Eastern Europe.