I just bought these bad babes on sale at Aldo....and the sweeter deal? The fact that almost half the money came from my meager collection of funds from RedBubble.

I only have like, 5 designs up but people still keep buying my stickers and some people bought a mug and it’s been slowly adding up, dollar by dollar for the…

Never use retinoid during the day.

I bought this wool-blend skirt at Uniqlo (and also a sweater to go with it) https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/women-wool-blended-jersey-volume-skirt-404024.html?dwvar_404024_color=COL17&cgid=women-skirts#start=4&cgid=women-skirts

Rich! If you’re using a retinoid in the morning, please tell me you’re following with sunblock! SPF 30 at least!

Ah, but the woes of a wealthy, middle aged, disillusioned man are another matter entirely. I thrill to hear it in the dulcet tones of the audio book version.

Exactly. If he really wants to make the character revolutionary, he should make the middle aged disillusioned man a college professor, then showed him having an affair with an attractive student of his.

My thoughts exactly. Such a brave, unique perspective the world has never seen.

I appreciate this breath of fresh air. The woes of middle aged disillusioned men are a frankly underexplored theme in literature and film. I look forward to what will doubtless be a unique insight into this marginalised perspective.

He’s the real life version of the Guy In Your MFA Twitter feed.

Nona, this is good advice. I worked in a jewelry store, and here’s my take:

If they have a huge royal wedding I hope they DON”T invite trump and he has a twitter tantrum about it and sulks for days, delicious!

We did that, too. However, I also kept a composition notebook for years as a kid, in which I recorded my observations while trying to stay up every Christmas Eve to scientifically prove that Santa wasn’t real.

I seem to recall that generally “Santa” gifts magically appeared overnight (or while we were out to dinner, which was a pretty darn neat trick the first time it happened), and were not wrapped. Other gifts did come explicitly from parents (and others), and typically were wrapped, and were usually under the tree for…

We totally got Santa gifts and parent gifts. And, because we were a bireligious household, also Hanukkah gifts! No scarring, on any front. Kids will concoct all sorts of logic to explain Santa; it kills me that some parents freak out thinking everyone needs to work so hard at it.

I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about when the kid that’s currently taken up residence in my uterus is old enough to do the Santa thing. I think I’ve come up with an alright solution. The plan is that when she’s old enough, we’ll have a talk about how Santa isn’t really just one person, Santa is found in the…

A great part of my secular Jewish upbringing was that my parents made it quite clear that they worked very hard all year to buy us Hanukkah presents, and that we should appreciate them for it. I was also given very strict instructions to not ruin Santa for the gentile kids in the neighborhood, which I did even though…

I’m American as well, so beats me. It’s funny you mention wrapping paper: my parents went out of their way to get paper for “Santa’s” gifts that was sold at stores I never visited with them. Same with the cards.

My parents official line was that stocking presents were from Santa, the stuff under the tree was from them or other relatives. Under-the-tree presents accumulated all month, but stockings only appeared on Christmas morning. When sis and I got to be teenagers, we had a lot of fun sneaking around getting our parents…

I’m American and we always had “Santa presents” and then also family presents. Usually the Santa present was the one bigger/more expensive item we had asked for (Which, don’t get me wrong, was still modest as my parents were generally on a pretty tight budget—but it didn’t feel that way when we were kids). I think…

Well, tough shit England, that’s what you get for Brexit.