I need help from any Jezzies who read YA! I work at a bookstore and I volunteered to organize and lead a book club for teens. The premise of the book club is that we discuss books that haven't been released yet, sooo are there any fall/ late summer YA releases that you are particularly excited about (well-known or…

I've always heard that the distinctive intonation helps small babies distinguish when they are being spoken to, and the simplification and repetition helps them develop language skills. It's a pretty universal thing, using a slowed down and simplified dialect when speaking to infants, even if the way it is done varies…

Well, to be fair, James does look good in a tankini...

Yeah she needs implants. But then she is going to have ugly scars! Ewwww! Why do you ladies with ugly bodies not just love who you are? Get some confidence stupid!

Upon reading this email...I am convinced...that this person...IS INSANE!!!!! She speaks slowly...with many pauses...and then...SHOUTS PROFANITY!!!!! If I knew her...I think I would be...NERVOUS TO BE AROUND HER!!!!!!!

For anyone interested, here's a six-minute sampler (in 30-second snippets) of the soundtrack in its entirety. It seems to run the gamut from the good to the dreadful. No surprise, really, that the artist who sounds *truest* to the era is Bryan Ferry and his Orchestra.

In a couple shots of the guy playing you can tell that the music is hand-written. He not only played it, he had to transcribe it first.

If someone uses "Jew" as a verb, I instantly know that I hate them.

Maybe they'll take judgmental smugness with them.

How does twenty-two people count as a study? Twenty-two people doesn't even count as a kegger.

You know, I really don't NEED an extra morning cry. But oh my goodness, Emma! I'm considering nixing this grad school thing and opening up a Dalmation Plantation, except with dogs of every race, color, nativity, property, creed, and previous condition of servitude.

It must be cool to be a nice white lady. You get to be described as "sassyfrassy" while getting arrested, which almost makes it sound like a good thing.

Thanks for the Info. I had no idea this was a thing. This is what he wrote on Twitter:

I have always suspected she was an asshole in real life. (No evidence for this, just intuition.)

Yeah. She's the best. I wish she had been in the car of the drunk driver that ran over me when I was six. That would have made it so much more awesome.

this is what happens when you ban panda sex ed.

This is horrific. Not only does this do damage to the people who used these condoms, but I'm sure the Ghanaians' trust in condoms is now shot to shit. So that might discourage future use and... yeah. I know you can't see this through the computer screen, but I am seething anger.

If there isn't a song called "This Is Sussudio" in the American Psycho musical I'll be pissed off.

You're right. I've only got the one liver...